Scar

they are sensory and other times they are emotional. In The Time Around Scars, the markings are discussed as if they were physical wounds. Meanwhile, the markings of The Cinnamon Peeler come in the form of scents. In keeping with his style, Ondaatje loads the markings in both poems with significant – and sometimes similar – symbolism. The markings in The Time Around Scars are the scars carried by the speaker’s wife and the scar he gave a girl long ago. While they are presented as physical…

idea in a concrete form. This symbolism is evident throughout Ondaatje's body of work, where scars manifest loss in The English Patient, the impact of a strong connection in “The Cinnamon Peeler”, and finally memories hurt and pain in “The Time Around Scars”. The ubiquity of scarring vindicates it as a device that Ondaatje purposely uses, rather than a mere coincidence. The events that cause the physical scars to the literary characters give an impression that will remain for the rest of their…

the exile of Simba are mainly related to the character traits of Simba and Scar. In contrast, the effects of Simba’s exile affected the environment and its inhabitants. A supporting factor that contributed to the departure of Simba from the kingdom is his character. As cub Simba has many childlike qualities, for instance, he is inquisitive, impressionable, and naive. These characteristics all lead to him mistrusting Scar repeatedly and not think things through before doing something. For…

tell. Scar tried to kill Simba but after it didn’t work, he thought of another plan to get rid of Mufasa instead. Simba met up with Scar, who took him to a canyon near a herd of Wildebeest. Once Scar left, the hyenas scared the Wildebeest so that they stampede toward Simba. When Scar got to Pride Rock, he told Mufasa that Simba was stuck in a stampede and lead him to the canyon. Mufasa jumped down and saved Simba but got hit by one of the Wildebeest. When he finally got free and jumped up, Scar…

Simba was one day playing and he heard rumbling, and a herd of wildabeast came his way and he was trapped but then his father came and saved him. Scar killed Mufasa and told Simba to never come back to Pride Rock ever again because his father died. Scar told the Hyenas to hunt and kill Simba. Simba ran as fast as he could from The Hyenas and finally escaped from them until they thought he had died. Timon and Pumba rescued Simba from vultures and took…

tells the story of how she got a scar on her neck as a young child. An-Mei did not live with her mother. She and her younger sibling lived with her grandmother, Popo. It is revealed to the reader that her mother is a “ghost” and An-Mei has only seen her a handful of times in her life. During one of her mother’s impromptu visits, scalding soup is knocked onto An-Mei and because of the severity of the scarring, she almost dies. This scar symbolizes the lasting emotional scar that is left on An-Mei…

For example, how Claudius and Scar killed their brothers, how they claimed the throne, what Mufasa and King Hamlet ghosts wanted from their sons, when Hamlet and Simba carried out their father's orders, and the endings of both Hamlet and The Lion King. Claudius murdered King Hamlet by dripping poison in his ear while he was sleeping. Scar brought Simba down to a gorge and ordered the hyenas to chase the wildebeests out of where they…

Simbas birth makes his uncle Scar second in line to the throne, and Scar plots revenge with his hyena henchmen. They come up with a plan to kill King Mufasa and Simba, thus making Scar king of the Pridelands. Mufasa is killed, Scar convinces Simba that it is his fault and Simba flees the Pridelands in shame. He is discover by a meerkat named Timon and warthog named Pumbaa. He grows up away from the Pridelands, and as everyone there thinks that Simba is dead, Scar and the hyenas rule. Simba’s…

why it is practiced in these cultures. “Scarification involves cutting or making an incision into the skin, and then allowing the wound to heal, leaving a permanent scar” (MSc 2004). The tribes in Africa do these modifications when they…

decapitated. Now me being fourteen at the time I couldn’t comprehend the severity of what she saying. Surprisingly enough, I just smiled and continued to make jokes about my scar. After missing three weeks of school my peers were astonished by how I was so comfortable about talking about the giant scab, pus- oozing, scar around my neck. I do admit that it was hard to sleep since I couldn’t bend my neck and to make it more embarrassing my dad had insisted that I wear a neck…