How Much Land Does a Man Need?

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How Much Land Does a Man Need? A lot of people have lost something in their lives. This makes their life be very different and never be the same anymore. This is the case in the story “How Much Land Does a Man Need?” by Leo Tolstoy. Where the main character Pakhom by wanting to have and own a lot of land, ends up losing all the land that he was about to own, but six feet from, his head to his heels. This shows us how quickly you can lose something that you think that it’s all yours but in reality it is not. Pakhom was a very poor man that did not have much land. But one day when Pakhom saw the chief of the town, Pakhom immediately fetched the best dressing-grow and five pounds, and offered these to the chief. The chief addressing himself to Pakhom offered him to choose whatever piece of land he likes. Pakhom asked the chief to make it secure, so they decided to have a scribe. Then when Pakhom asked the chief for the price, and the land, the chief said, “As much as you can go around on your feet in a day is yours, and the price is one thousand rubles a day. “ Pakhom got very surprised and started thinking about all the land that he could get. But Pakhom did not realize that he can also lose and do not get any land. “If you don’t return on the same day to the spot where you started, you money is lost.” Now with the chief’s condition, Pakhom new that he had to be very fast if he wanted to get a lot of land. Pakhom also knew that he could lose everything if he was not available to make it to the goal. People can lose everything even though they think; that what they have is all theirs. When Pakhom started walking, he saw how much land he could get, he wanted to get a lot of land for himself. “An hour to suffer, a lifetime to live.” Pakhom had already got a lot of land, but he always wanted more and more land. Even Pakhom was tired and did not feel good; he

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