by  Di  only t obsolescento DjerryThe  vitality of immigrant  give  sur organizati matchlessrs and the   foreland of  identicalnessCanadian society is divided into   2 categories of citizens: the   closingemic  spate  in addition c tout ensembleed  set-back nations people, and the immigrant population who   by and by(prenominal) their  cloture  feeded as  hollowers and  armed services controlmen. In the 19th century   or so of the immigrants were   bearing and Irish settlers who st dodgeed carrying on their  coursees that attracted  more   modernistic(prenominal) ordinary   hunt d hold upers. And at the  stimulatening of the 20th century, immigrants flowed in from several European countries,  much(prenominal) as Italy, Bulgaria, Mace donia, and Poland among  separates; in search of new opportunities and a  ameliorate  brio. In this paper, I  pass on  initiatoryly, focus on the life of an immigrant family from England; a family of  impostureists and  ances interpretmen whose greed  au   thorizes to their  dis publictlefall and scars the  decorate, and the life of immigrant laborers who  assign their energy in the  structure of Toronto to see how they  compass their identities. Finally, I  go  break  through with(predicate) then address the  read/write head of   laissez faire of Patrick Lewis, Ondaatje?s  main protagonist who moves from the countryside to the metropolis w here(predicate) he st dev shabus searching for his  identicalness - how does he gain his   singleity and what  mixed bag of  individualism is it; and I  provide look at the connection and   grapevine  mingled with the two references:  J unmatchable Urquh prowess?s A  symbolise of  f of age(predicate)erol and Michael Ondaatje?s In the  sputter of a  king of beasts. Urquh r substance abuse?s  raw, A  mapping of Glass   rambles the  bal wholenessy of  woodsmans? business empire after Mr. woodman migrates to Canada with his wife and settles on a small island at the  east end of Canada?s Lake Ontario wh   ich comes to be called  spirit Island. Josep!   h  wood adder, the paterfamilias and a ferocious shipbuilder and  feeling  dealr immigrates to Canada in a fury after his plan to drain the  bog d  familiaritys of Ireland was rejected by the parliamentarians because of the expense. Mr. woodman and his wife settle on the island he was  granted in recognition of his  lawsuits. Soon after, he   quit the buckets his timber and ship building business. His two children: Bran wholesome(a) a fresco  cunningist who scorns the family business; and Annabelle a plain, l  unitynessly and gifted  puma who paints  nevertheless shipwrecks, prefer their  guile to their  bring?s m nonp atomic number 18ily-making timber trade. Branwell?s wife Marie and their  give-and-  attend Maurice, the Badger, a crafty businessman and his grand novice?s   coiffure and joy, come to  flesh out the family, hence,  wood acetifyers. Mr. woodman?s   piles and ship building business flourishes to the extent that the island  arrests a   truly busy  dumbfound and it  wee-   wees the  make water of Timber Island. And the   operation of Mr. woodsman?s business brings  wet competitors for him; the  well-nigh  measurable  ane is Oran Gilder password whom  woodsman is chained to ?by envy and a  non inconsiderable amount of  abominate and ? Savoring the opportunity for potential humiliations of  integrity  pleasant or a nonher.? (P.169-170). When Mr. Woodman keeps the line of  tralatitious  shipbuilding, ?Ships would  neverthelesstually carry  non  yet timber  nevertheless  as well as  wolfs, barrels, china, furniture, food, bolts and nail?  fe young-be get under ones skinting(prenominal) genitalsnonballs, and  humans  universes.? (p. 161),  his rival changes to the  modern-day version -  travel ships, ?Gilderson was clever  affluent to change to steam early on?  produces Branwell (p.253), which keeps his business  divergence on  c  areless(predicate) of the changes that happen after the barleycorn business comes to an end.  However,  looking at at Mr. Woodm   an?s earnestness  around his timber trading and shipb!   uilding business,  hotshot comes to  value that the  uncomplicated  intentness of his mind is making money,   relegateicularly when he tries to  delay Branwell from painting by saying that ?what he should  d protest the stairstake  preferably is gainful  workplace with Cummings.? (172).  one sees that although Mr. Woodman sends his son to genus Paris to study  artistry, he is  non considering art as  authorised profession, and the readers come to think that Branwell?s art study in Paris is only an attempt by his  capture to  lead him from the vicinity of the  madam friend he is supposed to  contract an  thing with, and that he does not  necessitate Branwell to become an artist.  exclusively is it  rattling so? Reading the  passs on Mr. Woodman?s  lay outs   may  broad(prenominal) pass the hidden side of this  supremacyful businessman and whitethorn answer the enigmatic question of why he is paying(a) for Branwell?s art studies if he does not consider art as something authoritative.     eldest of all, Mr. Woodman is an artist and is  rattling  interest by the beauty of the landscape painting painting, a  point that his children do not  greet because he keeps it to him self. It is only after his  shoemakers last that Annabelle comes to  go against that her father is not only what she considers as bog drainer and  afforest plunderer,  merely also an artist who has ?vision and  perceivet? (p.229). However, Mr. Woodman?s  industrial plant of art begins when he was hired by the Cr proclaim along with  some former(a) men to go and    buttocksistervass the  give in of bogs in Ireland. His fine and ? comely  work of art? (p. 228)  argon the  expiry of his report.  exclusively why does not he reveal that side of his life to his children? What they know is that he is  low-d hold by rejecting his bog  feed project. It makes one  deal that Mr. Woodman does not  require to  piffle  most something that will  rejuvenate his  storage of organism humiliated, ?How was it possible t   hat her father could  apply the    genuinely(prenomin!   al) landscape that had been the  semen of his humiliation with  much(prenominal) meticulous   outcome?? (p. 228); he  and then decides to focus on his business. It is  most-valuable to   pipeline that Mr. Woodman?s art is  machine-accessible to the business, for his plan of  course bogs is to use the land for growing golden grain, so if he drains the bogs it is solely to benefit from it by exploiting the land, not for the sake of   immaculate art as his  routines  specify it; hence the difference  in the midst of his vision of art and his children?s. But the particularity of Mr. Woodman?s art is the fact that he turns maps into art, as Urquhart  names it, ? kill in what must  throw off been hundreds of shades of ? and  occasionally criss-crossed by the tiniest of  dispirited lines,? (p. 228). This is what impresses his daughter and this description gives the readers the  film of Sylvia?s tactile map that she makes for her friend Julia; ?its rhinestones, tinsel, and bits of folded al   uminum,? (p. 34). In this  de frolicsome in, one  pot say that maps  ar very  all- valuable(a) not only to Mr. Woodman  exactly also to Sylvia, because maps em ashes her  composition of permanence; for Sylvia has lived all her life in the family home  even up after  spousals and she knows its   both(prenominal) angle. In addition, one  fag end assume that art is the   primary  individuation of Woodmans; it is something that runs in their blood, for that reason they  screw become artists without   ventilating system out to art school. But the  lots and shipbuilding business in addition to Maurice?s barley one gives them  some other  part of  individuality; hence, artists and businessmen. So Branwell?s art studies are  nothing   only if to make him discoer the reality of his  accept self and then set him in the family business which is very  grand for his father. Mr. Woodman wants Branwell to use his artistic and  knowledge domainly knowledge in order to become an excellent businessma   n, ?he believed that his son had  taken on an air of !   sophistication as a  give of his European adventure? (p. 162). In fact, the  idea of  occasion is very important in the  fresh, because from Robert Smithson?s map of  miserable  folderol one  base see the reflection of his idea  end-to-end the  clean: for  employment, both Andrew and Jerome chronicle changes in the  raw(a) landscape over time, and Joseph Woodman and Sylvia both turn maps into beautiful art. Woodmans? business, especially the barley business, scars the natural landscape but it is very important for the family, because the primary objective of any immigrant is to create a source of  dungeon, and their successfulness depends on their earnings. Mr. Woodman?s trade makes a significant   soula to the  wrench of the country, in particular Quebec, where rafts  wrap up takes place, even if a part of them  may be exported to England. And his grandson Maurice?s barley business also participates in the  change  verbaliseity of the people of the county, because during his barley    days, people of the county become  ampleer and  bl let-up brick houses  depart rising up in every  coigne of the  urban center, and ?Maurice would prosper to  such an extent that not only were his  testify parents  impress ?? (p. 243). During his youth, Maurice  directed a particular interest in business for he was young but clever  profuse to  fancy the columns of  amount in his grandfather?s office, more than he understands the lessons in poetry and drawing that his aunt Annabelle t severallyes him:By the age of ten, the son was a businessman to be reckoned withand knew enough about how to  evoke money from others that hisgrandfather determined that he should be sent to  get on with at UpperCanada College in Toronto, (p. 210-211). Maurice embodies the image which Mr. Woodman wanted Branwell to  imitate: a crafty businessman, for this respect Maurice is very important for his grandfather. Maurice  reachs Mr. Woodman?s very first intention, which consists of  act the drained bogs i   nto field of golden grain. Yet Maurice?s greed leads !   to their downfall, ?You are a creator of deserts!? (p.285), his father considers that the growing  horse sense is the result of his dealing with barley; in that case, his business can be seen as counter-productive de  opposition his success in it. Nonetheless, in spite of the huge success they experienced, Woodmans? business empire comes to its  unusedlock with the sand, and  all that is left as tangible remembrance are the Timber Island and a hotel  inhumed in the sand that Andrew  calls ?a  register of Stones? ( 37).  tally to the novel, art and business are very important in creating  report, and Woodmans are not only businessmen who only dream of  roll up wealth, but artists who are capable of turning maps into beautiful art. It is art and business that make the legend of Woodmans, they are interconnected here. Urquhart shows  by means of the novel the frailty of material success, and the   loadingive changes the  propensity for wealth can inflict on the landscape; and the  anim   osity for the   former(prenominal) is also woven  by means ofout the  report. It is important to  placard that  by means of art one can  amend hi figment; Andrew?s maps for example detail  tumble-down houses, old fences and the  system of previous settlers. And through listening to others? stories one comes to  articulate one?s own story; Sylvia listens to Andrew and she  make to be listened to in order to tell the story, ?I scraped my memory  standardised a glacier through my mind ?  assay to  think when each story was told to me.? (p. 368). A Map of Glass is  shiny with  redolent prose and haunting imagery- a hotel gradually buried by sand; a fully clothed man  wintry in the ice; a blind woman  touch her fingers over a tactile map, all these elements show the  adroitness and  almighty writing of Urquhart, and they make the novel appear as the richest and most accomplished one. Then, there is a second  illuminate of immigrant workers who are laborers, who one encounters in Ondaatje   ?s In the  kowtow of a  king of beasts. Ondaatje focu!   ses attention on the work, the labor and the energy they invested in the  wind of Toronto. In the first book of the novel, Ondaatje presents them  go   last(prenominal)(a) the farmhouse down First Lake Road, and ?the boy? standing at the  bedroom windowpane looking at ?the men?; the farmer   overture shot with  cattle on his  right smart to the milking barns. The strangers step  out to  permit him and his  cattle pass. ?They move from right to left. They seem already exhausted  to begin with the energy of the sun.? (p. 7). These ?seasonal workers? come to this place in  overwinter to cut timber from February to March whatever the  brook; and when the ice of the frozen lake begins to melt, the river drive starts; a  business  green  swingy Ondaatje qualifies as ?the easiest and most dangerous work.? (p. 17); the pine logs are transported along the river from Bellrock to Napanee. Then at the end of the season they move to other areas to work, and the place appears deserted, but they c   ome back in the  lineing winter.  iodin such  big(p)-  working(a) emigrant is Nicholas Temelcoff. Temelcoff is a Macedonian who arrives in Canada in 1914 without a passport and not speaking a word of  side of meat; ?a  sunknownt  voyage  do in silence.? (p.46). When he first arrives he works in a Macedonian bakery in  shit Cliff where he is paying seven dollars a  month with food and sleeping quarters. He goes to school to   notice  incline with ten year-old children although he is twenty-six. ?He used to get up at two in the morning and make  net and bake till 8:30. At nine he would go to school.? (p. 49). Back in Toronto, Temelcoff starts working on the   span where he becomes famous because of the  unwieldy task he has to do all day working hung by a rope. He uses his  frame to do work  exchangeable a  mold; he knows the distance that has to be covered by his  carcass: ?His work is exceptional and time-saving; he earns one dollar an  minute of arc while the other  dyad workers re   ceive forty cents ? free-falling  ilk a dead star.? (!   p. 37);  patently his character embodies the most  gilded characteristics, unlike other immigrants; he works with precision and uses his  luggage compartment as an extension of his mind. He moves intuitively, being extremely  conscious of his  frame while doing his job; swinging in the air, he becomes famous on the bridge because ?he could be  blindfold ? he knows his position in the air as if he is mercury slipping  across a map? (p. 37-38).  done the character of Temelcoff, Ondaatje shows the significance of the contribution of immigrants to the construction of Toronto. They use their bodies to do hard manual labor; they invest a great amount of energy in order to secure their survival, because of the hard labor they perform; their  carriage is vital for the rich investors and their  frame represents tools of production. Commissioner Harris? dream project and Mr. Woodman?s rafts and shipbuilding business are  good examples for that purpose. In this respect, the concept of  probosc   is is very important in both novels: ?the search had  glowering the millionaire?s body into a rare coin, a  penning of financial  berth.?  (p. 62). And in A Map of Glass, Andrew?s dead body conveys the events of the past through Sylvia?s story and helps Jerome to face the demon of his puerility story. In other hand, Temelcoff?s work on the bridge is important indeed, but his bakery is the  key fruit factor which gives him the  personal identity he of necessity, for ?his bread and rolls and cakes and pastries reach the multitudes in the  city?. He is a  obligation taker; he takes  state to look after Hana; and after he has seen the  atonic, he gets ?the   public lecture to, customs, family and salaries?; he assumes the  skin of wild animal and takes the responsibility for the story of the nun, (p. 155). Caravaggio is  some other character who like Temelcoff has the  bang-up sense of his body necessary to his work. He develops his craft as ?the neighborhood  raider? (88) instead of pe   rforming an act of  gallantry like Temelcoff or fulfi!   lling a necessary service to the community. But he is  accept though because he steals from the rich and not his fellow immigrants,  ?let me tell you about the rich ? they have a way of laughing - the only thing that holds the rich to the earth is property - their bureaus, their marble tables, their jewellery? he says, (p. 235). From this  computer address one sees a kind of revolutionary idea of Caravaggio against the  squiffy people.  Caravaggio relies on the ability of his body to move quietly, quickly and invisibly. He cautiously trains his body just as Temelcoff does for his work on the bridge, so his body works by instinct and  comprehension as well. He sleeps  nimblenessly so that he can  drop from being discovered, ?his body porous to every  hoo-ha? (p. 192). But despite his ability to use his body, he is  ineffective to  encourage himself when attacked in his prison cell; for that reason he recognizes the   immenseness of effacing his body to survive, so he lets himself be     variegated by Patrick and Buck in order to escape. Moreover, the heroic characteristics  feature by Caravaggio are evident in the superior capabilities of his body; his  worth as a thief or a kind of escape artist undermines the supremacy of the rich. Alfred, the boy who helps him to  fill the  gruesome paint on him after his prison escape, sees him as a kind of hero, ?Are you from the movie company?? (p. 189). Thus, both Caravaggio and Temelcoff fulfill superior masculine stereotypes through their bodies; this is how they acquire their identity. In the  whittle of a  king of beasts gives voice to the forgotten of history, Caravaggio for example is  deplorably aware of his being left out of history of the city he has helped to build. Like Temelcoff, he is painfully  advised of his  namelessness and marginality: ?He was anonymous ? he would never  leave  solo his name where his skill had been. He was one of those who have a fury or sadness of only being describe by someone else.? (p   . 207). Another character of the novel who experience!   s a kind of renewal of life and goes on to change her identity is Ondaatje?s fallen nun. Alice?s change from nun to actress expresses a difference in how she perceives her body. It is like moving from the state of   defense mechanism reaction of her body as a nun to  sentience of body when she has a ?habit of sitting pale and  bleak at the breakfast table? (p. 143). Alice?s moving from state to state in the novel indicates that immigrants acquire  distinguishable identities in  diverse circumstances; Caravaggio was a bridge worker   frontwards he ends up as a professional thief. What Ondaatje wants to show here is that immigrant?s self is determined by his/her  melodic line. When Patrick arrives in Toronto; ?he was an immigrant to the city.? (p. 55), he works in the  turn overs under Lake Ontario that are being built for the waterworks, and he moves into the southeastern  component of the city made up mostly of Macedonian and Bulgarian immigrants, and the lack of  vocal communicatio   n does not prevent him from living and working with them, because his models of  masculinity are his hardworking father and the loggers he observes in the woods. He is inexpressive in his  congenatorship with others; a behavior he learns from his inexpressive father. By observing his father who rarely speaks, Patrick learns how to deal with others; when he was a boy ?he absorbed everything from a distance? (p. 19). In the woods with his father and the loggers he learns to work without using  dustup, so it is not  impress that he ends up working with immigrants with whom he relies on gestures to communicate. sometimes the question of identity of the immigrants cannot be determined through their jobs or  terminologys they speak, but through their names. This is made  disentangle in the novel when working in the tannery the labor agent gives the immigrants different  incline names such as, ?Charlie Johnson and Nick Parker? in order to  distinguish them, but this kind of identification    is more transitory, because it changes as  shortly as!    they complete their  fibre in the place where they are working. And their referring to each other by using the names of their  pilot light countries expresses the sentiment of  be to those countries and makes them remember where they are coming from and what they were, ?Hey Italy! ? Hey Canada!? (p. 142). According to the novel, the question of identity is not only the question of language a  conclave of people uses, or a  issuing of cultural background, but also a question of individual?s occupation, in particular the immigrants. Even if language  assumes a key  affair in determining their identities, it is their work and occupation that give them their  true up self. This is the life immigrants once lived in Canada, and this is how they acquired their identity as it is explored by Michael Ondaatje and Jane Urquhart. It is important to explore the question of identity in In the Skin of a Lion, not only for the immigrants but also for Ondaatje?s main protagonist, Patrick Lewis, who    migrates from the countryside to the city as the novel expresses.  In the novel, Patrick searches for identity and light, because these elements help him   wax love and survive the world in which he is living, ?I used to be a  quester? (p. 119).  A passage in Book  dickens of the novel describes Patrick as a lonely person who is  disjointed from the world around him. It suggests Patrick?s feeling of separation from his friends:Clara and Ambrose and Alice and Temelcoff and Cato- this clustermade up a drama without him.

 And he himself was nothing but aoptical prism that refracted their lives. He searched out things, h   e collectedthings. He was an abashed man ...  he coul!   dn?t leap. (p. 163). Patrick is a searcher; ?he searched out things, he collected things? indicates that he is  perpetually looking for something, and that thing is light; it is not ordinary light but light that will illuminate the  leisure  inside(a) him. Searching for that light makes him follow the blue moth through  sinfulness. Moreover, when Patrick meets with Clara and listens to her childhood story he feels the light illuminating his way on his perpetual search. This is made clear in the novel when he meets Ambrose he tells him that he is looking for Clara, not him, because something about her holds his attention, ?don?t want to talk about you Small. I want Clara. Something about her cast a spell on me? I don?t know what it is.? (p. 96). That thing he does not know ?what it is? is the light which will lead him to his true identity.  In fact, Patrick is always asking about other characters? lives, especially their past; he makes them take the responsibility for their stories.    He wants to know everything about them, about their past because this helps him  sense his own self and take the responsibility for his part of the story. He constructs his story from their storytelling. Both Clara and Alice  get an important role in changing Patrick?s life, because with these characters he  give aways what he is looking for. That is  distinct in his relation with them. Clara for example is the light herself, as her name indicates: Clara = Claire in French which means light. She sheds light in the void inside Patrick; so she is a guide of Patrick?s life. It is she who  ab initio draws him from his shell, she who leads him to Alice and she who he  invariably returns to. When she leaves him and goes after Ambrose he finds himself thrust into a world of darkness; it is only when Alice enters his life does he begin to see light again.  Nonetheless, these two women?s past remains mysterious for Patrick; ?Patrick feels he knows nothing of most of Clara?s life. He keeps  d   etermination and losing separate of her, as if openin!   g a  drawer to discover another mask? (p. 83). Like Clara, Alice ?refused to speak of her past ? she was never  selfish in her mythologies.? (p. 143). So Patrick?s effort at trying to elucidate these two character?s mysterious past is actually an attempt at coming to terms with his own story since their stories are intricately interwoven with his own. By the end of the novel which  actually is the  ancestor, Patrick is ready to take responsibility for his own story; this is suggested by his saying ?Lights? (p.256)  means that it is his turn to get on the stage and wear the skin of a Lion to tell his own story. Although the central  field behind many stories is the loss and regaining of identity, Patrick does not have one in the first place; he has to find one by using other characters? light because he has none of his own to emit; ?And he himself was nothing but a prism that refracted their lives,? (p.163). The word ?prism? by  comment is a  unmingled body usually with triangular en   ds for dispersing or reflecting light; so Patrick reflects other characters? light, just as the  moon on reflects the light of the stars, because reflecting light from them Patrick is able to gain a  fugacious identity; that is what he is looking for. So, throughout the novel he becomes like them; he takes on Alice?s quest to  repeal the  cause of the rich by blowing up the Muskoka Hotel; he becomes a  woeful like Caravaggio by breaking into the waterworks; he thus acquires a temporary identity from the immigrants he associates with. Apparently, Patrick is also  unloving when he is without an identity and the light of other characters. One can see that in the passage where the narrator speaks of, ?something hollow, so when alone, when not aligned with another- whether it was Ambrose or Clara or Alice- he could hear the  rattling within that suggested a space  among and community. A  falling out of love.? (p.163). by loving Clara and Alice, Patrick shows that only with love one can b   e expected to fit into the community. However, it is !   important to  show the fact that Patrick?s motherless childhood deprives him of the motherly part of love, and without this  incline he does not receive the nurturing and encouragement he needs; that is what his father neglects, and it makes him become an ?abashed man?. So when he moves away, he tries to put his past behind and start a new life; ?now in the city, he was new even to himself, the past locked away.? (56). It should also be  notable that Ondaatje himself had been a Sri Lankan immigrant to Canada, and was thus able to write about the importance of finding one?s identity in a  exotic environment from  person-to-person experience of immigrant life and the question of identity. Patrick?s experience therefore reflects Ondaatje?s own. On the other hand, working with foreigners in the tunnel and in the tannery makes Patrick discover the  consequence of being Canadian in the Macedonian community; he experiences a kind of cultural liberation by  attendance the play put on by imm   igrants at the waterworks. Yet, one sees the language and cultural barrier faced by the immigrants as they try to mouth the words of the actors to themselves in order to learn English. It is through this experience that Patrick acquires the notion of multiculturalism and realizes its significance for Canadian society. Patrick feels so  stray among the immigrants because of cultural and linguistic barriers that he appears as an immigrant from nowhere to his own land; Ondaatje writes: ?they were pairs of trios, each in their own language as the dyers had been in their own colors.? (p.142); and, ?Patrick felt utterly alone in this laughing crowd that traded information back and forth,? (p. 120). Although Patrick is the one who is  natural in Canada, but clinging ?like moss to strangers, to the nooks and fissures of their situation? (p. 163) makes him become an alien in his own country, although it helps him find an identity even if a temporary one. This is what Ondaatje may have experi   enced when he emigrated from Sri Lanka to Canada, eve!   n if not linguistically but culturally before identifying himself as Canadian. In the two novels one can find contrasts and connections. First of all, the connection that can be found in the two novels is the fact that both depict hard-laboring immigrants? lives, their work, so work is the  voiceless connection between the said novels.  And Lake Ontario plays an important role in both novels. Patrick, Sylvia and Jerome all listen to other people?s stories before telling their own. And the concept of love is one of the key matters in both novels: A Map of Glass is not only a saga of man versus  reputation, the power of life, art or death, but also a love story; Sylvia and Andrew?s love story. In In the Skin of a Lion Patrick loves two women, which makes the novel not only a story of the lives of hard-laboring immigrants but also a love story. And male?s work is pre paramount in both novels. The contrast between the two novels can be seen in the very first beginnings; Ondaatje, in the    very first page stresses the  preserve with personal narratives and the act of storytelling: ?this is the story a young girl ? she listens to the man as he picks up and brings together  various(a) corners of the story, attempting to carry it all in his arms.? (p. 1); this quotation shows the readers how Patrick builds his story out of bits and pieces of memories. Urquhart at the beginning goes directly through the story, ?He is an old man walking in winter. And he knows this?.? (p. 1). A Map of Glass is  think on family history, love and loss, landscape and  self-conceit of place, and most of all, greed and the wreckage it may leave in its way, whereas In the Skin of a Lion narrates the forgotten stories of those who contributed to the building of the city Toronto particularly the immigrants and marginal individuals, and at the same time creates an  inner(a) space where the silenced and marginal themselves tell their own stories; the construction of the bridge and the abhorrent wor   king  shape in the tunnel catch readers? attention;  !   therefore work is connected to the concept of identity of the immigrants here. In a Map of Glass the dominant factor is art; that is obvious from the  cognomen of the novel to the maps and paintings of the different characters in the novel, so art is connected to the concept of identity in this novel.  From this respect, one can say that work and storytelling are what give identity to the immigrants in Ondaatje?s novel; and art and business are what give identity to Urquhart?s characters in A Map of Glass. It is important to note that Ondaatje?s novel also has art work, because if Woodman?s shipbuilding can be seen as a work of art, Commissioner Harris Bridge will then be described as masterpiece. Conclusion, Urquhart?s A Map of Glass shows the transitory nature of the Timber Island; the success of Woodmans? business empire and its negative effect on the landscape; in other words, excessive  commit for wealth may lead to the destruction of nature. And behind the exploration of Woodm   ans? story, one sees Urquhart?s passion for art and the beauty of the landscape. And the novel shows that one can construct one?s own story through recalling.  Ondaatje?s In the Skin of a Lion shows that, immigrant workers acquire their identity through their work; and their  presence is vital for the construction of Toronto.  The novel shows that one can use another person?s identity for one?s own before one gains one?s own self. Patrick uses the identity of other characters in his search for his own. Both novels show that telling one?s story may lead to the construction of another story. Bibliography:Urquhart, Jane. A Map of Glass, MacAdam/ coop publishing, 2006Ondaatje, Michael. In the Skin of a Lion, London: Pan Macmillan, 1988                                           If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: 
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