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Patrick Lewis’s father is a reserved, taciturn person focused exclusively on his work as a dynamiter for a logging company. Although he often shows concern for Patrick’s safety and well-being, he rarely talks, preferring to make himself understood through his actions. His concern for his work suggests that he feels pride in his skills and values his professional occupation.
Hazen Lewis Quotes in In the Skin of a Lion
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Part 1: Chapter 1: Little Seeds
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He was born into a region which did not appear on a map until 1910, though his family had worked there for twenty years and the land had been homesteaded since 1815.
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Part 2: Chapter 1: Palace of Purification
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Nobody else wants the claustrophobic uncertainty of this work, but for Patrick this part is the only ease in this terrible place where he feels banished from the world. He carries out the old skill he learned from his father—although then it had been in sunlight, in rivers, logs tumbling over themselves slowly in the air.
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He remembers his father once passing the foreign loggers on First Lake Road and saying, “They don’t know where they are.” And now, in this neighborhood intricate with history and ceremony, Patrick smiles to himself at the irony of reversals.
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Hazen Lewis Quotes in In the Skin of a Lion
The In the Skin of a Lion quotes below are all either spoken by Hazen Lewis or refer to Hazen Lewis. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 1: Chapter 1: Little Seeds
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He was born into a region which did not appear on a map until 1910, though his family had worked there for twenty years and the land had been homesteaded since 1815.
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Part 2: Chapter 1: Palace of Purification
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Nobody else wants the claustrophobic uncertainty of this work, but for Patrick this part is the only ease in this terrible place where he feels banished from the world. He carries out the old skill he learned from his father—although then it had been in sunlight, in rivers, logs tumbling over themselves slowly in the air.
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He remembers his father once passing the foreign loggers on First Lake Road and saying, “They don’t know where they are.” And now, in this neighborhood intricate with history and ceremony, Patrick smiles to himself at the irony of reversals.
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