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Summary Of Seven Floor By Dino Buzzati

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This story (Seven Floors by Dino Buzzati) has many aspects with hidden meaning showing the use of allegory to make death almost seem normalized. The 3 literary elements I saw used were setting, conflict, and character development. The hospital brings a setting that shows the progression of old age with the 7 floors that each hold a worse level of illness as you go down with the first level being people with no hope at all. “Gravely ill patients were housed on the second floor; and on the first floor, those for whom all hope had been abandoned. Not only did this unique system speed up service, it made it unlikely that mildly ill patients would be upset by the unnecessary proximity of other patients who might be suffering agonies, and it guaranteed
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