... bridge builders, tunnel diggers and leather factory workers. However, as the story progresses, it is realized that these immigrants have created a sense of ethnic diversity that is a dominant pillar in the house that is Toronto in the twenties and thirties. The Italian villa's walls in The English Patient are covered in trompe l"oeils. Like the popular art of the renaissance, Almasy at first is portrayed as a poor, pitiful Englishman who ... the wife of his employer whilst mapping the desert. When the lens focuses on Almasy's true national identity, the picture becomes uglier with clari...

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