We also need to consider how much patients telling the stories of their sickness gives valuable--ie 'healing'--feedback to themselves, and to what extent the listeners learn valuable information about the experience of sickness and healing. 2. ... The story moves along lines of growth, development, towards maturity, and, ideally, towards health and happiness, or fulfillment, and there are the challenges, obstacles, sidetracks, that happen along the way and give our story some colour, be it bright or dark. ... Similarly the questions of adaptive and maladaptive behaviours will give a...

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A passage in chapter three describes him as a lonely man that is isolated from the world around him. ... In chapter three, ironically titled, "[T]he Searcher", Patrick is searching for Ambrose Small but that is merely a metaphor for his vocation. ... These two readings give the text more dimension, and with the awareness that this novel can be interpreted in numerous ways, a reader's understanding is strengthened and deepened. ... Ondaatje embraces aspects of post-modernism, by creating a novel that breaks away from the traditional narrative, thereby giving readers a greater perspective...

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Winton peppers the setting with colloquialism and Australian icons to give us the impression that the text is set in the Australian outback. ... Alice doesn't have a car and has to ask Mr Cherry to give her lifts to the city. ... Winton gives us this impression when Alice and Ort go to the accident, with Ort saying no one even looks at us when we pull up'. ... All of these factors about landscape can all be perceived in the first few chapters, revealing the significance of the landscape and how it is connected to Ort and how it reflects his state of mind. ... At the end of that ...

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