<span>Tolstoy set up Gerasim to be a foil to Praskovya Fedorovna in these two excerpts from The Death of Ivan Ilyich by keeping her reminded that she is just a peasant. Since Praskovya does not feel anything special between her husband anymore, Gerasim has a sense of compassion by helping Ivan by being a spiritual and physical bridge.</span>
1. Renaissance
2. classical
3. patron
4. Enlightenment
5. rationalism
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The children in the district are so poor and some of them so pathetic that I suppose the struggle to live has been so great you could not think much about what you fed the mind, but I came away feeling that right there, in one of the biggest and richest states in the country, we had a big area that needed books and needed libraries to help these schools in the education of the children, and, even more, to help the whole community to learn to live through their minds.
