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The Four Horsemen In 'How Much Land Does A Man Need?'
Jair Hayes
Mr. Buckingham
Horsemen Essay
1 December 2011

Series of Unfortunate Events The four horsemen of the apocalypse appear in the story “How Much Land does a Man Need?” because they are all symbolical. The four horsemen are the horse of Conquest (white), War (Red), Black (Famine), and Pale (Death). These four horsemen are all symbolical in some way and all connect in the story in a important way. They help explain the series of events in Pakhom’s journey to his demise. The first horseman is conquest which is a white horse. This is symbolic because Pakhom sets out on a conquest for so much land. He starts off with no land basically then he starts to get land. He next has 15 desyatins, and seems to be contempt with this land.

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