What does Kenny choose to do to help out Rufus so they can play in the snow?

Explanation:

Kenny even plays a trick with his leather gloves so that Rufus can have a pair too: he tells his mother that he lost his first pair, so she would give him a second pair. Thus, the boys would each have one pair to wear. ... Rufus insists that Larry stole Kenny's gloves, and shows Kenny the snow that Larry touched.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

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