Death of Ivan Ilych Christmas Memory
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"And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep. And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." Even for children the idea of death is impressed upon them. The idea that one never knows when their life will end is continually shaped in a person's mind, ironically, through out their life. For some the option is to give into this fear and let your life be driven by it.
In "The Death of Ivan Ilych" by Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Ilych is a man who is quite obviously driven by his obsession of his illness. He spends the majority of his time either in bed or on a sofa. Ilych clearly displays the consequences of such an action. Before he became terminally ill Ilych was a man driven to success...