I can't find much that goes into detail but overall the victims of slavery would use starvation as a way of suicide to avoid further punishment. The men then force fed the victims and if they didn't survive they would be thrown overboard sorry this wasn't much help edit: I just read they could also be tortured until they gave in to eating
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Human beings' relationship to time is one of similarity, limits and inevitability. The human life is one with four stages: birth/childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age/death. Similarly, time has four stages over the course of one year: spring, summer, fall and winter.
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Hi! I'm super sorry that I can't help. I've never read the passage
When Gerasim says: " It's God's will. We shall all come to it some day", He expresses that he is a believer. This is pretty much related to his spirituality.
Shan is considered to be a first person narrator because he both tells the story and appears in it.
A first-person narrator would obviously use the first person pronoun (I) to refer to him/herself. So, the entire story is told from this person's point of view, using that particular pronoun. E.g. 'I saw him standing there...' is an example of a first person narration which Shan is an example of. If he were talking about someone else, it would be third-person narration.
