In The Skin Of A Lion Essay

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the pace of the passage. As the loggers are skating the pace gets faster, and then starts to slow down when he goes back home to his routine life. By going against the night, the loggers are essentially breaking the rules: “Their lanterns replaced them with new rushes which let them go further past boundaries” (page 22). This idea of going past boundaries reminds us of a part later in the novel. Patrick goes past boundaries when he sets fire to the Muskoka Hotel on page 168. Instead of being an observer like he always is, he actually steps in and goes “against the night.” By comparing Patrick in “The Skating Scene” to when he goes to the Muskoka Hotel, we can see how he grows and changes throughout the course of the novel.
Another powerful metaphor in this particular scene is: “And a moon lost in the thickness of clouds so it did not shine a path for him towards the trees” (page 20). This metaphor again emphasizes the light and ...

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