The movement from silence to language helped Patrick  understand foreign language and his inner self. Language is a kind of communication that humankind need to have to live and express themselves to others , can be oral, physical or visual . Communication is vital for the survival of human beings and if he/she is not able to communicate his thoughts get cloistered and it is detrimental to the overall confidence of the person. A simple example is if you go to another city or country and migrate, as a stranger ,  everything will become harder and the person might not understand the life style or the language that is being spoken if it happens that you are forced to stay there for a long period of time and as you have no body to talk to, all your thoughts will have an impact only on yourself and these impacts will have severe repercussions on your health.  Some people might have a weak personality and don’t communicate well like others , this is probably how the type of person is . The book “In the Skin Of A Lion” by Michael Ondaatje , you can see the main character Patrick Lewis , as a young kid , looking out at the world out of his window , he had no knowledge of the world and did not know what is happening around him , that is from the lack of learning resources that he did not have and could not afford , but he had imagination he studied different bugs and gave them names. His desire was not to go into silence, but to break from it. As a lonely man searching for love, his identity and light, without having these elements Patrick lacks love and would not be able to survive the world.


        Patrick’s silence as a young child at the presence of his father impacted his life. When Patrick was young , he used to look out of his window alone at the workers that There are not a lot of conversations that occurred between Patrick and his father Hazel Lewis.  Patrick Obviously had goals in his life and wanted to be something when he grew up like any other kid


Hazen Lewis was an abashed man, withdrawn from the world around him, uninterested in the habits of civilization outside his own focus. He would step up to his horse and assume it, as if it were a train, as if flesh and blood did not exist.




















After following a hard and lonely childhood, Patrick learns to like the idea of “growing old together” that is with Alice. Throughout the text, Patrick sees many people die around him, including his father, but the only one who really eats him inside is Alice. After Alice’s death when Patrick is in prison he stays silent, he is lost and doesn’t know what to do , his love has died and he becomes a silent man , the way he used to be silent as a young child and the after Clara left him. Trying to hold onto Alice, “as if saying one word would release Alice from his body. Even though Alice was dead ,  Hana, her daughter gave Patrick a reason to carry on in his life , even though Alice was everything , now he takes care of Hana , when Patrick got out of prison Hana was 16.