In The Odyssey and The English Patient the main character, Odysseus and Almasy, suffer from a form of identity loss and try to regain it. They both regain their identity through the help of other people. Every person that stumbles across a piece of their past helps them regain a piece of their identity.
Because he cannot remember Almasy must get help remembering his past from the people around him. One of his first memories came from the book "he brought with him through the fire- a copy of the Histories by Herodotus" (Ondaatje pg 16). Hana reads some of the notes that he had written in the book; she reads of the different winds "the ---, the secret wind of the desert, whose name was erased by a king after his son died within it. And the nafhat—a blast out of Arabia" (Ondaatje pg16-17). Before Hana had read this passage Almasy couldn't tell her the name of the tribe that had helped him after his plane crashed. "The Bedouin were keeping me alive for a reason"(Ondaatje pg......

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Title: Indentity Loss
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