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The story focuses on a peasant named Pakhom who hears his wife and sister-in-law discussing the benefits of town versus farm life. He believes that if he had plenty of land, he would fear nothing, not even the devil. When a landlady sells her estate, there is a frenzy among peasants to buy the land. Pakhom scrapes money to buy a small parcel, works hard, and is able to live more comfortably. However, he becomes possessive and paranoid about losing his land, causing conflicts with neighbors. He moves his family to another commune for more land and builds a small fortune, but resents renting the land. He works to buy more fertile land, building his fortune further. He

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The story focuses on a peasant named Pakhom who hears his wife and sister-in-law discussing the benefits of town versus farm life. He believes that if he had plenty of land, he would fear nothing, not even the devil. When a landlady sells her estate, there is a frenzy among peasants to buy the land. Pakhom scrapes money to buy a small parcel, works hard, and is able to live more comfortably. However, he becomes possessive and paranoid about losing his land, causing conflicts with neighbors. He moves his family to another commune for more land and builds a small fortune, but resents renting the land. He works to buy more fertile land, building his fortune further. He

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AOA

UM Kanwal my roll no is 47
And my topic of presentation is the summary and the critical analysis of how much land
does a man need by Leo Tolstoy.
Firstly um going to discuss the summary of
 How Much Land Does a Man Need? focuses on the story of a peasant named Pakhom, who
lives a humble existence. As the story opens, he overhears his wife and sister-in-law
discussing the benefits of town life versus farm life. He thinks to himself that if he had plenty
of land, he would have nothing to fear—not even the devil himself. 
 A short timer later, a landlady in the peasant village decides to sell her estate. There is a
frenzy among the peasants of the village to buy her holdings. Pakhom scrapes together
enough money to purchase a small parcel of land. By diligently working on the extra land,
Pakhom is able to reap enough extra money to live a more comfortable existence.
However, the additional money causes Pakhom to become very possessive of his land and
paranoid that it will be taken away from him. He starts to have conflicts with his neighbors,
and some, resenting his success, even threaten to burn his house. The tension makes him
decide to move his family to another commune with more land. There, he is able to grow
even more crops and build up a small fortune. However, he is forced to grow the crops on
rented land, which he resents due to wanting to be self-sufficient. He works hard to buy and
sell a lot of fertile land, building up his fortune further.  Pahom hears about the far away land
of Bashkirs where he can get as much land as he can walk around in a day for only a thousand
rubles. Pahom sells everything again and heads of to the land of Bashkir’s. He arrives safely and
finds out that everything he had heard about the land was true. His greed just got out of control
and it took him. He was exhausted walking all day and he tried making it back to his meeting
place before the day was over. But due to his weak body he was defeated, and made one last
battle wondering, “there is plenty of land but, will God let me live on it”. He had taken this
journey too much and died in the process.

Analysis
NOW um going to discuss the analysis of this summary
As Humans, we have desires that make us take possession on something more than what we
have to benefit us. In this short story, Leo Tolstoy delivers the message that greed, in the end
brings us nothing but death itself. This story tells us that even if we have enough that we can
get by the odds of becoming wealthier is so seductive to us that we are ready to loose
everything we love.
Throughout this story, Tolstoy was trying to tell us that human nature pushes us for more than
what we need. Many of us think that having ownership makes us happy, In fact it does, but we
need to understand that once the process starts, there is no end until the death. That was
Tolstoy was reflecting, in the end all he needed was a piece of land.

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