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All the Kings Men
Title: All the Kings Men
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 1246 | Pages: 5.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
All the Kings Men
Throughout All the King's Men, history plays an important role in the motivations and
lives of all the characters. History's importance is most noticeable, not surprisingly, in the
story main characters - Willie Stark and Jack Burden - whose lives focus on and, in some
cases, depend upon history and how they relate themselves to it. While Willie Stark views
history as a tool with which to manipulate people for his own ends, an attitude resulting in
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…showed last 75 words of 1246 total…you do with the dirt." Burden, on the other hand, separates fact and
truth into two distinctly different categories, and while the truth will always give you the
facts, the converse is not always true:
"I tried to discover the truth and not the facts. Then, when the truth was not to be
discovered, or discovered could not be understood by me, I could not bear to live with the
cold-eyed reproach of the facts."
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