The English Patient Analysis

In the novel The English Patient , written by Michael Ondaatje, the author describes the life of a young nurse (Hana) and her sacrifice to take care of a burned English patient (Count Laszlo de Almásy) in an abandoned hospital located in an Italian villa, that was affected by world war II. In the novel the author reveals to the readers, the love and care shown by the nurse to an utter stranger, her development in character and knowledge and the authors ability to captivate the reader throughout the book.

Ondaatje uses many complex vocabularies in this novel to emphasise his ideas throughout the book. The author depicts Hana one of the main characters as a young beautiful nurse, just around the age of twenty who does her job with care, patience and passion. During her time of being a nurse during the war she had lots of patients with different problems who had been assigned to her and one of them was the english patient. The english patient is a severely burned patient with …show more content…
He does a fantastic job of describing exactly what he wishes to describe and with magnificent word choice and syntax. Throughout the novel I was personally captivated in the patients flashbacks, as to what he would remember and what he would reveal about his history. Especially his love life and affair with his friends wife which ended up being tragic and sad in many ways. All the way through the novel the author most specifically focuses and targets the readers emotions by allowing his characters to be vulnerable but yet stern in achieving their goals.

In conclusion the novel The English Patient is a one of a kind with many morals to take from it. It gives the reader different perspectives, views, understanding and thrill to read it many times. I would highly recommend the book to anyone willing to have chills, thrills and laughs as you