The Russian short story "Forbidden Fruit" by Fazil Iskander tells the story of the young narrator fell upon the "forbidden fruit", which in his case, is eating pork. Though commanded by his religious dictates, the narrator finds himself in conflict with his knowledge of his sister's consumption of pork and the need to stay loyal to his religious belief, the need to gain favor from his parents.

In the given passage from the story, the narrator seems to regret his past action of betraying and revealing his sister's secret of "eating pork at Uncle Shura's house". No matter the treachery, he accepts that nothing can justify it the way he had done. And now that he's also taken to eating "pork like everyone else", it seems to convey no happiness in him, just regret at the insensitive and wrong way of dealing things.

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Read this excerpt about the Vietnam War from Tim O'Brien's "Good Form": I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why s

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The author’s wordings in the excerpt describe how his experience was during the Vietnam war, he was young but was afraid to face reality that his fellow comrades were dying in front of him. He describes how in stories people can be able to twist what had happened to them, on the other hand you could honestly tell them the true events that had happened.

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