"Any critical reading of a text will be strengthened by knowledge of how a text is evaluated by readers in different contexts." Discuss this statement and show how your critical understanding of the text has been strengthened by at least two different readings. In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje is a text that is given new meaning when viewed from different perspectives. Readers approach the text with their own unique background and experience, which influences their perception and interpretation of the novel. Two such interpretations are the postmodern and postcolonial readings of In the Skin of a Lion. These two readings give the text more dimension, and with the knowledge that this novel can be interpreted in numerous ways, the reader's understanding is strengthened and deepened. Post-modernism, the absence of any certainty, discredits the values ​​of modernism, opposing the establishment of principles of meaning and value. It draws on countless theories about society, media, and world knowledge, but is also aware that there is no definitive way to make sense of humanity. Ondaatje embraces aspects of postmodernism, creating a novel that breaks away from traditional fiction, thus offering readers a greater perspective on the novel. We learn that each story is simply the construction of a narrator and is never impartial. In The Skin of a Lion is self-reflexive: it interrupts the reading process to explore its own textual nature. Ondaatje breaks the illusion of reality and involves the reader in the process of understanding the meaning of the text, instead of simply allowing him to receive it. The respondent becomes a producer rather than a mere consumer. "Only the best art can order the chaotic tumult of events. Only the best art can realign the chaos to suggest both the chaos and the order it will become." Here, Ondaatje uses the device of intrusion, in which an author makes a direct comment on his novel, telling readers to be patient and wait for the intentional disorder to return to its natural order. This "chaos" is also created through the use of the frame - a story within a story. Towards the novel's conclusion, the corners of the story are brought together and readers are able to close the frame that holds the inner story. The car journey is the result of Ondaatje's ability to transcend time and space: the story ends at the beginning of the novel and begins from the end, as if Patrick had told his story not only to the young Hana, but, ultimately , to the readers..