"Neither as a boy nor as a man was he a toady, but from early youth was by nature attracted to people of high station as a fly is drawn to the light, assimilating their ways and views of life and establishing friendly relations with them. " <em>Leo Tolstoy's The Death Of Ivan Ilyich </em>
To me this seems like the answer, because it says that from early youth he had always admired those of a higher society. I am not an expert but this sentence kind of stuck out to me.
Kylie measure the length width and height of a donut box after all the donuts had been eaten. His measurements are shown below.
Many of the metaphors relate to actual events or characters because the book is about stalinism during wwII