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.