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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Patrick Lewis, Hazen Lewis
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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 Character Timeline in In the Skin of a Lion
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Part 1: Chapter 1: Little Seeds
The men have little contact with the town, and neither the boy nor his father has ever entered the temporary shacks they set up for the winter while the river...
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During summer nights, the boy loves turning out the lights and, while his father is sleeping, looking at a geography book in the kitchen, where he leaves a light...
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Patrick’s father does manual work on a few farms. One day, Patrick and his father search for...
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When Patrick’s father attaches the ropes to the horses, the horses move forward and succeed in pulling a...
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That night, Patrick’s father allows the boy to sleep in the same bed as him, sharing warmth, and they...
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Patrick remembers his father, Hazen Lewis, practicing using dynamite. Hazen would draw the outline of Patrick on a table...
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When Patrick is fifteen, his father takes the only risk he ever took in his life: he blows up a tree...
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...in narrow stretches of the river need a dynamiter to dislodge them. In these cases, Hazen Lewis and Patrick arrive. After taking off his clothes, Patrick covers himself in oil and...
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...cook bring loggers food and drift back down the river to camp. In the meantime, Hazen dreams of dynamiting someone’s body by attaching the fuse to someone’s pants. He remains brooding...
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...he learned important things during this period, but always through distant observation, by watching his father’s behavior. He recalls the emotionless way in which his father sometimes sang at square dances,...
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Part 2: Chapter 1: Palace of Purification
...by foreigners and speaking a foreign language in the street illegal. Patrick reflects on his father’s comment about the loggers they would see when he was a child. Hazen Lewis said...
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