He is detached from his surroundings as "suburbs slide past his unseeing eyes", his desolate state remarkable in its pathos: his "shirts and pants soggy", "black raincoat stained with mud" and "bag stuffed with books is falling apart". ... Just as the torrent to sweeps over him, like the cold water over his brown hands, it leaves behind pangs of mental sorrow and pain to which he is afflicted everywhere. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate