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<span>The one reason that Thomas Paine thinks the colonies stand a
good chance against the British was that the colonies had very less to lose in
the fight against the British. On the other hand the British had everything to
lose once the colonies freed themselves from the oppression. The colonies had
every resource to prepare arms for the fight against the British. The British
would lose out financially in a big way as the colonies would then stop paying
undue taxes that the British government charged. </span>
The topic Ivan Ilyich thinking about in this excerpt from Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich is that there are two kinds of life: the artificial life and the authentic life. Artificial life is represented by Ivan, Peter, Praskovya and almost all the people in the society of Ivan - it is marked by shallow relationships and materialism. Authentic life is represented by Gerasim.
Well the characters are a sort of tricksters, they engage in deceit, magic and violence.It teaches how some aspect of animal and human life came to be. It teaches us not to be so greedy like the coyote, as he took way more than he needed from the cow and later learned his lesson when left with nothing at all.
