"Bread and Wine"

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The paper introduces and analyzes Ignacio Silone's novel "Bread and Wine". Specifically, it analyzes the statement "'School is not life, my dear Don Benedetto,' Concettino said. 'At school you dream, in life you have to adapt yourself. That is the reality. You never become what you would like to become'" (Silone 15) as it relates to the characters of the novel, especially Pietro. The paper examines whether transformation really does occur for any of the characters, who is transformed, who is not and, most importantly, who really becomes who they "would like to become".

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"If there is one character in the story who is not transformed it is Bianchina. She worships Don Paolo the priest, but inside she is still the same girl she was at the beginning of the story, her knowing Pietro has not transformed her at all. In the country she would have disgraced her family had she given birth to the illegitimate child, and she learns nothing from her mistake. When she travels to Rome, she becomes a prostitute, saying "In Fossa I was bored to death" (Silone 296). She is a simple person, with no need for revolution or redemption, and she realizes it. In fact, she admits her only hope in life is Pietro, but she is enough of a realist to know he will not ever feel the same about her. "It is the only thing that keeps me alive now, and it doesn't cost you anything" (Silone 299)."

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