Okay, so I'm almost done with the second part of the reading. I find that all four of the characters depend on somebody for comfort, survival, and safety. Each one finds something in another to hold on to I guess. I believe Hana falls for the English Patient because he is the only person who needs her, who she could look after and who she knows will never leave her (like for a war) like her dad and her husband, who both died because of it. I do agree with Huy that all of them are directly changed from the war, physcially and emotionally. Hana seems to cut herself from emotions because she constantly sees her patients dying, witnessing their last moments on Earth. She also retells an instance where she closes her patients eyes, thinking that he is dead, but instead he wakes up saying "You can't wait until I die can you?!" I guess she is just looking for someone who can be with her intellectually, like the English Patient, and physically, like Kip. She wants to feel affectionate towards someone, she wants to feel human again. War does have that sort of effect on people because you have to get use to seeing people die around you every day. I'm still a bit confused on why Caravaggio even bothers to stay in the hospital to convince Hana that she should leave.

There was the time where Kip's teacher, Lord Suffolk died from disassembling a bomb and killed his secretary, and his students ( Kip was not there at the time). And from then on, I think disassembling a bomb helps him "leave" society for a time, because all he is thinking about is disassembling it, and he doesn't want anybody near him because he is afraid of being responsible for their death. So when Hana didn't leave when he was disassembling the bomb, I think that sort of made him realize that there's a lot at risk doing what he does for a living. Um..I can't really explain the importance of this event but I think it's sort of a turning point.

Ms. Clapp told us to look for the descriptions on the setting, but I think I missed all the beautiful descriptions!