Which of the following are appropriate thesis statements for the themes in the death of ivan ilych by leo tolstoy?
a) tolstoy demonstrates the relationship between life and death through ivan ilych’s battle with illness.
b) tolstoy demonstrates the inevitableness of death in all of his works.
c) the protagonist of the story faces a moral dilemma.
d) tolstoy demonstrates a spiritual message of how to live a meaningful life in the death of ivan ilych.
e) ivan finally realizes that his life was full of superficiality and tries to mend it by doing good deeds.

Which two passages in this excerpt from the death of ivan illych does leo tolstoy use to suggest that ivan ilych feels like his life is slipping away from him? "what's the use? it makes no difference," he said to himself, staring with wide-open eyes into the darkness. "death. yes, death. and none of them knows or wishes to know it, and they have no pity for me. now they are playing." (he heard through the door the distant sound of a song and its accompaniment.) "it's all the same to them, but they will die too! fools! i first, and they later, but it will be the same for them. and now they are merry . . the beasts! " anger choked him and he was agonizingly, unbearably miserable. "it is impossible that all men have been doomed to suffer this awful horror! " he raised himself. "something must be wrong. i must calm myself—must think it all over from the beginning." and he again began thinking. "yes, the beginning of my illness: i knocked my side, but i was still quite well that day and the next. it hurt a little, then rather more. i saw the doctors, then followed despondency and anguish, more doctors, and i drew nearer to the abyss. my strength grew less and i kept coming nearer and nearer, and now i have wasted away and there is no light in my eyes.

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