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  1. Oct 2022
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    Kholstomer.pdf
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    1. karimhajjar 23 Oct 2022
      chestnut filly, always mischievous, always nagging the old horse, and causinghim manifold unpleasantnesses, came down to the water as though for her ownnecessities, but really merely for the sake of roiling the water in front of his nose.

      Tolstoy's expression of societal disposal of those who grow old in a critiquing manner. The way Tolstoy incorporates social and political criticism is quite admirable, for it is very similar but still opposite to the pattern of the Duke in 'My Last Dutchess'; they both choose not to ''stoop around''. On one hand the Duke's cause was employed for his own self as he didn't feel special by his wife, while here the same one on one figurative expression is used but rather to shed light on the greater image (society) in a way that is minimized for the reader to understand easily.

    2. karimhajjar 23 Oct 2022
      Nester scratched him on hisneck; and the horse in reply expressed his happiness and satisfaction by shuttinghis eyes.“The old dog likes it,” said Nester.The gelding really did not like this scratching very much, and only out ofdelicacy intimated that it was agreeable to him. He shook his head as a sign ofassen

      A very important part in the reveal of Kholstomer's inner individual and conscious psyche where he expresses his ''pleasure'' for the satisfaction of others and that in turn (satisfying others) had become a pleasure to him. He is then shocked by an instantaneous flip with how he was being treated slipping from gentle gratitude to a harsh derogatory manner as a way of his owner to prevent him from thinking too highly of himself. This is also revealed from the owners perspective giving us glimpses rather than a complete dive into the minds of those around Kholstomer.

    3. karimhajjar 23 Oct 2022
      early in the morning and the dewis on the grass, and this odor is agreeable to me, and brings up many pleasantrecollections

      A positive depiction to signify his optimistic likable nature, that is a common thing Tolstoy did in his novels to make the reader sympathize later on with characters one wouldn't usually put under the spotlight. The goal of this unfamiliar literature is to hook the reader onto art that wasn't make for arts sake but rather to serve a greater purpose the author is presenting in his work, and that is through a feeling of the eerie odor of the literary work with a constant brush of false belonging and sometimes triggered nostalgia to keep the reader in heat to know what will happen next.

    4. karimhajjar 23 Oct 2022
      “I know now. As soon as we get out on the road, he will go to work to make alight, and smoke his wooden pipe with its copper mounting and chain,” thoughtthe gelding

      The gelding is familiar with the repetitive routine

    5. karimhajjar 23 Oct 2022
      express his displeasure, and always showedit. When he was saddled, he pawed with his swollen right leg, and began to champthe bit,—here also for some special reason, because it was full time for him toknow that there could be no taste in bits.Nester mounted the gelding by the short stirrups, unwound his knout, freedhis Cossack coat from under his knee, settled down in the saddle in that positionpeculiar to coachmen, hunters, and drivers, and twitched on the reins. The geldinglifted his head, showing a disposition to go where he should be directed, but hestirred not from the spot. He knew that before he went there would be muchshouting on the part of him who sat on his back, and many orders to be given toVaska, the other drover, and to the horses. In fact Nester began to shout, “Vaska!ha, Vaska! have you let out any of the mares,—hey? Where are you, you old devil?No-o! Are you asleep? Open the gate. Let the mares go first,” and so on.

      An expression of disagreement uncommon to Kholstomer's personality.

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  3. Sep 2022
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    The Project Gutenberg eBook of A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens.
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    1. karimhajjar 19 Sep 2022
      There is no doubt that Marley was dead

      The realist traits start showing for here there is no present denial or beautification for the deemed fate; no twists, no make up on the portrait of death, no pink bow on the coffin.

    2. karimhajjar 19 Sep 2022
      Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will, therefore, permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

      There seems to be a reference to modernism in this part for the gross unfiltered emotions, the perspective thay comes through the speakers thoughts and own mind as well as the repetitive nihilistic tone while talking about death.

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