How does this excerpt from leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich contribute to the plot of the novella? suddenly some force struck him in the chest and side, making it still harder to breathe, and he fell through the hole and there at the bottom was a light. what had happened to him was like the sensation one sometimes experiences in a railway carriage when one thinks one is going backwards while one is really going forwards and suddenly becomes aware of the real direction. "yes, it was not the right thing," he said to himself, "but that's no matter. it can be done. but what is the right thing? " he asked himself, and suddenly grew quiet. ivan ilyich starts to focus on the good things in his life. ivan ilyich still thinks that his illness, pain, and suffering are unfair. ivan ilyich questions his past life and accepts his final journey. ivan ilyich realizes that he has lived a good and honest life. ivan ilyich realizes the right and wrong in his life.

Ivan Ilyich questions his past life and accepts his final journey.

Explanation:

In this excerpt, the author chose to reveal that Ivan Ilyich never questioned the legitimacy of what he did in his past life, but the acceptance of Ivan's deathbed brought the awareness of finitude and some issues that had never assailed him before - This excerpt shows the case of a person to whom the foreshadowing of death brought the elucidation.

the characters in string all have major secrets that they strive to avoid revealing throughout the play.

in the short story the slip-over sweater by jesse stuart, the main character and narrator shan is friends with grace, an intelligent girl he has known since childhood and with whom he used to be in love.

at the beginning of the story, shan believes he’s no longer in love with grace, but loves jo-anne instead. in order to buy a slip-over sweater and have jo-anne wear it so that the other students would know she loved him too, shan takes a loan at the bank.

while jo-anne is wearing shan’s sweater, his friend grace starts to wear another popular boy’s one, roy’s sweater. because of that, the other students begin to pay attention to grace and compliment her perseverance and effort. they admire her for walking 5 miles to school every day, despite the weather, and still getting the best grades. shan, who knows all of that for a fact, says, as the narrator, ‘and i knew she had the durability and the toughness of a storm-battered mountain oak.’ he compares his friend’s strength – not only physical, but also of character – to an oak tree, whose wood is known for being sturdy.

as the story goes on, shan changes his behavior out of concern for the debt he has to pay at the bank. his new girlfriend jo-anne never asks him what is wrong nor offers any sort of . instead, she breaks up with shan for not being as fun as she thought he was supposed to be. grace, however, not only asks about shan’s problem, but him make the money he needs. shan can’t but notice how different the girls are and what a wonderful person grace is.   even though he used to find jo-anne prettier at the beginning of the story, he now says, ‘grace was as beautiful as our mountain was in april, prettier than a blossom of wild phlox or a mountain daisy.’ his comparing grace to a mountain or something that exists on a mountain (such as a mountain oak or daisy) certainly has important meaning since shan loves the mountain and everything about it and he knows the mountain thoroughly. shan also loves and knows grace as completely as he does the mountain.