Michael Ondaatje’s novel In The Skin Of A Lion, is one of great interpretation. Many different people have interpreted it in many different ways. Even Ondaatje himself, on lecture tours has contradicted himself each time. In The Skin Of A Lion can be twisted and explained from different perspectives and outlooks 1. The section of the story when Patrick dynamites the Water Works is a dream. One reason it is a dream is because he …showed first 75 words of 835 total…

…showed last 75 words of 835 total…houses would come home so he could escape without getting caught. It was to his misfortune that his dog messed up one day and did not bark. He was put in jail but once again he used himself as the art to get him out. He had painted himself blue and escaped out on the blue roof unseen. Caravaggio’s artist acts show why Ondaatje named his character after the famous artist Caravaggio. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**