The English Patient's interior monologue

(starts when you can see the flying plane for the first time, AFTER the drawing starts)

Born in Hungary. Then I went to Cairo on an expedition. I've spent my life in the desert, I spent it in San Girolamo. I've spent it with Katharine, I've spent it with Hana. I got married to my best friend's wife. She died in a cave, then i took her corps with me on a plane I got from the germans in exchange for my maps. I promised her to bring away from the desert. When we got shot I didn't only loose her body but I also lost my skin. My body burned while falling onto the ground. She was dead but I still didn't want to loose her. I didn't manage to get help soon enough to help her, to make her survive. I'm still in love with Katharine. We'll meet now. Everything will be fine. I waited for you. I love you.

(should end when the screen turnes white)

August X.

- hana's birthday: kip and caravaggio celebrating



- talk about canada between Caravaggio and Hana. he tells her about her father but hana doesn't want to hear it




- Kip sets the table and is cooking



-they eat and drink wine
- Hana singing a song
- Kip and Hana understand each other and talk because they both had a hard life


- Caravaggio wants them to get married (Hana and Kip)
- Kip runs with a gun into the patient's room because he thinks it's his fault that automic bombs were on Japan. He does not end up killing him
- Kip leaves the villa with a motorcyle he found near the villa.
- He wants to go to Adriatic to help in the military so it's really spontanious and he does not have time to say good bye to hana anymore but he does to Caravaggio
- He drives over the bridge of Ofanto River and falls because of the wet and slippery street. He doesn't drown because he mangages to take a breath before sinking
- Hana's mom's name is Alice (the one that taught her how to play the piano)
- Hana's dad's name was Patrick
- Hana writes a letter to her Stepmom Clara who she hasn't been writing to since Patrick's dad. In this letter she tells her how her dad died on a dove-cot.

CUT : Some years later in India --> Kip
Kip is married, has 2 children and is a doctor now. He's sometimes still thinking about the time when he lived with Caravaggio and Hana in San Girolamo but he doesn't really have time because he has so much to do with his patients and his family
- Hana kept writing Kip for 1 year but then she stopped because he didn't respond.
- He wonders what she looks now and hopes for seeing her again one day
- Hana is a loved woman but for her something is always missing




Own opinion:

I find it really unfortunate that there isn't really a happy end. Kip is happy i guess, but Hana isn't. Also you don't know what happened to Caravaggio or Almásy !?! I don't like that it's really focused on Kip and how he lives now and it's just as hard to read as the other nine chapters. Probably people that read the english patient like this chapter best because they are so glad it's over soon ;)
I don't know, I didn't really like the book because when a book is really hard to read and really complicated to understand then I just can't enjoy reading it.
I think all of them learned a lof about love and about how they have to just manage to live with each other and help each other out.

IX. The Cave of Swimmers

With a lot of morphine Caravaggio makes the English patient talk about his past once again. He tells about when he first met Geoffrey and Katharine. They were on their honeymoon and have only been married for 2 weeks. Katharine was the only woman in the camp and at first she didn't feel that comfortable about bein in the desert, but she was very interested in this kind of landscape and read a lot and was really really smart.

In the desert were 4 men, the english patient who was 15 years older than katharine, her husband, Madox, and another man. And one woman, Katharine. She asked the EP for books, but he only had his one book with him that he would write his personal notes into. After he returned from a journey he gave it to her though.

Geoffrey threw a party for the EP's return.

They spent a lot of time together and the English patient did projects just to be with her and to spend time with her.

They became lovers when Katharine says to the EP:"I want you to ravish me" which means the same as "I want you to rape me". But after a while Katharine left him because she didn't believe in him loving her and returned to her husband who she knew, loved her more than anything else. The EP suffers because of her leaving him because he's serious about her.

After that Madox is described who had been the EP's best friend for 10 years. He shot himself in a ceremony in curch in 1939.

More morphine is given to the EP by Caravaggio.
He starts talking about him in the third person. He's talking about a dance with Katharine. Almásy (the EP) was drunk at this moment.

Then Caravaggio starts telling, like that he also knew Geoffrey and that he was a thief in the war. He tells Almásy that the Allies thought that Geoffrey had been killed by the EP because of Katharine. - The EP starts telling about what happened to him without taking any more morphine.



Own opinion: I think there are a lot of time jumps and I think it's really mean of Caravaggio making the EP talk with using drugs. The EP is wounded and he can't fight for what he wants so the others can just do whatever they want to.

Travel Report on San Girolamo

Now I would like to present to you, the villa "San Girolamo". It's located in Toscany, near Florence on a hill on the countryside. It kind of got destroyed in the war so some parts of it are ruins. The chapel next to the villa is completely destroyed, so are some rooms but that also makes the buildling more interesting because you can look outside from almost every room because a lot of walls hadbeen blown up during the 2nd world war. The villa had first been a nunnery, then got bombed by the allies because they wanted to get the germans out of there. After that it has been used as a war hospital. From the outside it doesn't seem so "luxurous".
There is one room in the first floor though that is the biggest room in the house and it isn't destroyed. It has a big bed in it and it also has some other furniture.
The villa has a really nice but wet library, with a lot of books and a large hole in the wall.
You can enter the villa through the kitchen which has a table in there.


The garden is nice to spend time in. There are orchards, vegetables and flowers. Also there is a tent, a fountain and a statue.

Have fun at "San Girolamo", guys!

sarong!?

"A sarong or sarung (pronounced [ˈsaɾoŋ] in Bahasa; English: /səˈrɒŋ/) is a large tube or length of fabric, often wrapped around the waist and worn as a kilt by men and as a skirt by women throughout much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, the Horn of Africa and on many Pacific islands. The fabric most often has woven plaid or checkered patterns, or may be brightly colored by means of batik or ikat dyeing. Many modern sarongs also have printed designs, often depicting animals or plants." - wikipedia

VIII. The Holy Forest

- Kip is in the garden


- Hana and Kip walk back into the house together


- Hana walks through the kitchen and up the stairs


- Ladybird: Hana holds it, then it walks to the english patient. After that it walks along his body.

• fuze box falls down because Caravaggio hits it when he turns around to look why Hana yelled
• before it hits the floor and would probably cause some damage, Kip catches it and saves Caravaggio's life
• Caravaggio notices that and knows that he won't ever forget the sapper
• Caravaggio talks about sarongs --> "Sarong!?"
• Hana asks if it's a real story and he says that it is and she almost believed it
• Caravaggio does strange things, for example opening advent calendars when breaking into a house
• walks in the library
• She begins to write there: "He says Lahore is an ancient city. London is a recent town compared with Lahore. I say, Well, I come from an even newer country. He says they have always known about gunpowder. As far back as the seventeenth century, court paintings recorded fuerworks displays He is small, not much taller than I am. An intimate smile up close that can charm anything when he displays it. A thoughness to his nature he doesn't show. The Englishman says he's one of those warrior saints. But he has a peculiar sense of humour that is more rambunctious than his manner suggests. Remeber "I'll rewire him in the morning" Ooh la la! He says Lahore has thirteen gates - named for saints and emperors or where they lead to. The word bungalow comes from Bengali."
• Kip's past: dream about defusing a bomb in the mud and water, uses iced oxygen,

Westbury White Horse

So to understand the beginning of the story you have to know what the Westbury White Horse is

Wikipedia says:

The Westbury or Bratton White Horse is a hill figure on the escarpment of Salisbury Plain, approximately 2.5 km (1.6 mi) east of Westbury in England. Located on the edge of Bratton Downs and lying just below an Iron Age hill fort, it is the oldest of several white horses carved in Wiltshire. It was restored in 1778, an action which may have obliterated a previous horse which had occupied the same slope. A contemporary engraving of the 1760s appears to show a horse facing in the opposite direction, and also rather smaller than the present figure. However, there is at present no documentary or other evidence for the existence of a chalk horse at Westbury before the year 1742.