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1. Ivan Ilyich wanted to weep, wanted to be petted and cried over, and then his colleague Shebek would come, and instead of weeping and being petted, Ivan Ilyich would assume a serious, severe, and profound air.
2. "This falsity around him and within him did more than anything else to poison his last days
From the first sentence, the narrator infer that even when a member of rising middle class is experiencing grief, they are forced to hide it due to the concern of their social standing.
From the second sentence, the narrator infers that unability to express emotion started to eating them from the inside and make them miserable.
Answer: In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as a satirical tale against Stalin ("un conte satirique contre Staline"), and in his essay "Why I Write" (1946), wrote that Animal Farm was the first book in which he tried, with full consciousness of what he was doing, "to fuse political purpose and artistic .
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Answer:
Tom couldn't attend the meeting because of a previous engagement.
Tom has been hunting for a job since he lost his previous job last year.
Tom connected the TV to the antenna that the previous owner of his house had mounted on the roof.
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They really want to follow it
