... rich by blowing up the Muskoka Hotel. He becomes a criminal like Caravaggio by breaking into the Waterworks. When Patrick is without light to reflect, he is without identity. When Clara leaves Patrick, he is thrust into a world of darkness. Only when Alice re-enters his life can he begin to have an identity again. Just like Alice's story of several actresses ... their lives. Ondaatje weaves the story around characters that have chosen to take on that responsibility. "His own life was no longer a single story but part of a mural, which was a falling together of accomplices. Patrick saw t...

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... , he walks back to the beach, where he finds Ralph and Simon at work building huts for the younger boys to live in. Ralph is irritated because the huts keep falling down before they are completed and because, though the huts are vital to the boys' ability to live on the island, none of the other boys besides Simon will help ... hunters manipulate the boys' fear of the beast to their own advantage. Jack continues to hint that the beast exists when he knows that it probably does not-a manipulation that leaves the rest of the group fearful and more willing to cede power to Jack and his hunt...

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... so bad that Nat has no hope at all of anything being better ever again. He smokes his last cigarette and watches the packet burn on the fire. Du Maurier leaves an open ending to let her reader ponder about Nat and his family. The reason why she does this I think is because there is no hope at all for Nat ... bodies, heard the fluttering of wings." Onomatopoeia is used in the first part of this sentence. The word "thud" imitates its own meaning so we can actually hear the bodies falling onto the floor in the darkness. Thud is a loud and heavy noise and so is perfect to use in this senten...

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