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Patrick begins work in the Tannery and is an observer of the horrible conditions and exploitation of workers with a particular focus on the dyers.

He and Alice begin a love affair and he moves in with Alice and her nine-year-old daughter, Hana.

The father, Cato, was killed doing dangerous labor work, and Patrick becomes a surrogate father to Hana, eventually adopting her.

They all live happily together for two years.

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“Ondaatje’s haunting rendition of their [the dyers] plight offers a caustic reproof to the idealised image of the New World as the melting pot of nations” Spinks Michael Ondaatje: Contemporary World Writers p.162

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"Then the blue suddenly dropped off, the colour disrobed itself from the body" pg 138

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Harris Water Treatment Plant called "palace of purification"

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R C Harris is the man that commissioned the water treatment plant and represents the capitalistic society - opposite to Alice who represents the struggling working class

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Concept 1. Interaction with others and your understanding of another's history influences the way you understand and piece together your own history and the  development of your persona.

Concept 2. The industrialist rich oppress the workers’ identities and physically alter their bodies to maintain the division between the higher and lower classes, eternally trapping the working class.

Concept 3. Patrick’s interactions with other immigrants display his elation in connection but also his remaining disconnection. (e.g Hana being the link between Patrick and the migrants- translating)

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Dying part in Tannery's
"They had leapt into different colours as if into different countries" Pg 136

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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1q4XW7IOR5YV3ExYJ_Ru-e7Aj2ObXH-K6aZQTGXsxAMw/edit?usp=sharing

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GYshpleXiJ4uQjp_igW43ughT-b3PwNMWmQaciVT90k/edit?usp=sharing

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/12ESV0ShzLKGZYu_7YDDqeSv6QYmvXaZ9x-f7kZel_i0/edit?usp=sharing