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Luo underestimating the power of literature
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Modern man has moved beyond the age of the thousand and one nights, and modern societies everywhere, whether socialist or capitalist has done away with the old story tellers.
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The power of just the thought of having these books
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Book titles poured from our lips their mysterious and exotic names evoking unknown worlds
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Displays the large effect literature has on the two boys- foreshadows the power of literature
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Whatever his reasons, his choice was to have a profound effect on our lives
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Shows how big the power of literature is
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I was seized with an idea..... it was the first time in my life i had ever felt any desire to copy a sentences from a book
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Shows that the books almost become like a religon to the three main characters
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Your coat was resting on the flat of her hands the way a sacred object lies in the palms of the pious
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Shows the power of the author
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This fellow balzacs a wizard... he touched the head of this mountain girl and she was transformed, carried away in a dream.
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Books represent danger
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"to steal the secret suitcase"- sibilance
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Transformative power of literature
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" with these books I shall transform the little seamstress. She'll never be a simple mountain girl again"
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Shows how much effect the books have on the boys
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" we were seduced, overwhelmed, spell bound by the mystery of the outside world, especially the world of women, love and sex as revealed to us by these western writers day after day, page after page, book after book."
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The main new idea presented by the book
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"fierce individualism" - "one man standing up against the whole world"
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Metaphor of the books
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" i was carried away, swept along by the mighty stream of words pouring from the hundreds of pages. To me it was the ultimate book: once you had read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would ever look the same."
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Metaphor for the power of literature
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"it was like seeing a great uprooted tree: the nobility of its trunk, the grandeur of its branches, the strength of its naked roots."
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Shows how the books become an even more prominent part in the narrators life then his family
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"It was not the little seamstress's predicament that was making me weep, I think, nor was it relief at having come this far in my efforts to save her. It was hearing the name of Fu Lei, Balzac's translator- someone I had never met.
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The books are used almost as a measure of love. At first they were only going to give ursule mirouet - luos favourite however in the end he also gave jean christope - his favourite
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The deal we had made was that I would give him our copy of Ursule Mirouet, but upon reflection I decided to extend his reward to include the book i treasured most of all- Jean Christophe, which had been translated by the same Fu Lei.
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The characters in the books become real
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"the flame licked the pages, making them twist and stick together while the words disappeared into the wind. The poor somnambulant French girl was roused by the conflagration, she tried to flee but it was too late: before she could be reunited with her beloved cousin she too was engulfed in the flames, along with the money-grubbers, her suitors, and the legacy of millions- all went up in smoke
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