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Running in the Family

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Sandra M

 

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June 18, 2014

 

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It becomes increasingly clear that Ondaatje's desire to understand his family is at bottom a desire to know and understand his father. His lack of knowledge about his father is an empty space in his identity and this emptiness haunts him throughout the novel. As he meets various friends and relatives and listens to their stories Ondaatje struggles to understand his father's life and his father's relationship with his mother...
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He also struggles to put to rest fears he has about his father's character. Ondaatje hears stories about his father's wildness and drunkenness, about his mother's dramatic flair, about his parents' arguments, and about the circumstances surrounding their divorce. He comes to realize that while these exaggerated and contradictory stories capture the spirit of the 1930's generation of aristocrats in Ceylon, they tell him nothing of what he really wants to know, nothing of his father's thoughts and experiences, nothing of "the closeness between two people," of how his parents "grew in the shade of each other's presence...
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