Reading Notes | Week 11 | Part A

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Leo Tolstoy

Tolstoy was born in 1828, he had four other siblings that grew up with him. His parents were part of the highest class in Russian society. Both of his parents died when he was young causing him to become an orphan.
Despite him coming from a rich background he did not take advantage of that, he worked hard for everything he had accomplished.
It was surprising to me to see that he was vegetarian considering the time he was born. I'm sure it was pretty hard to be a vegetarian in the 1800-1900's.
A lot of questions filled my head while reading this story. It wasn't like anything we have read before, in my opinion. I wish the author would have given us a little more background on how Ivan died and who he was while he was alive.
One theme that stood out to me was death. For obvious reasons.
Since this story is about the death of a man, it is talked about a lot. This man is Ivan Ilyich, he is an ordinary middle class citizen who learns he is going to die.
The story talks about how death is inevitable, no matter what. Even if Ivan switches his perspective on his life he can't avoid death.

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  1. UnknownApril 9, 2018 at 2:19 AM

    Hi Megan
    I really like the format of how you take your notes you first write the history of the author in order to give some context of who he is then you went into analyzing points in the reading that stood out to you. This gave a good over view of the main idea of the story even if you did not read the story.

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