"Nobody's story"

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0Nobody's story by Charles Dickens is only a couple of pages long. I have read it numerous times, and yet I can not make up my mind as to  what the river mentioned in the opeining paragraph stands for. I think that this "silent, ever moving, mighty" river represents masses of people, opressed masses of nobodies who only sometimes succeed to change their destiny. The question is why? Could it be because aristocracy is tenaciously holding onto their power and previleges and is not willing to share them with "nobodies" for that will make them more voulnarable. Nevertheless, "the tide of the river" is unstopable; it is moving towards "a vast undiscovered ocean, which I think represents progress, a better future because an ocean is vast and rich in hidden treasures, which are hard to obtain, but not impossible. 02br02br00Below is the opeing paragraph of "Nobody's story." How would you interpret it? Have you read the story? If yes, what did you think about it? 02br02br00"He lived on the bank of a mighty river, broad and deep, which was always silently rolling on to a vast undiscovered ocean. It had rolled on, ever since the world began. It had changed its course sometimes, and turned into new channels, leaving its old ways dry and barren; but it had ever been upon the flow, and ever was to flow until Time should be no more. Against its strong, unfathomable stream, nothing made head. No living creature, no flower, no leaf, no particle of animate or inanimate existence, ever strayed back from the undiscovered ocean. The tide of the river set resistlessly towards it; and the tide never stopped, any more than the earth stops in its circling round the sun."02br02br00Thank you very much0-

Phuongninhbao · Accepted Answer

The story reveals me to the first English novel, Robinson Crusoe, a hero of a book of the same name by Defoe. In the past, the hero is a clever man, he could use his few possessor to survive and was help by a servant . People don't like this wild life in a desert island.in spite of his power. .In our country, there was a couple who was in prison in a far away island, and became rich due to their plantation of watermelon. Today, it' not easy to live in an tsland, if you don't have a lot of money. to decrease many difficulties in an isolation. Ship, car or airplane are facilities to move everywhere. In the city and its surroundings , you need only a motobike to go around. That's enough! But in an island, if you want to be rich like An Tiem, man force is an important condition such as a big family with many generations, you need some basic materials to produce.and that's money. My sister's friend worked in a jungle in Con Dao, a prison in the second world war, He was very courageous to make wealth and now he was very rich, people call him the *** of island, a Robinson of new Era. Some desert islands become a center of divertisement with biosphere resorts. He became an owner and a director at the same time of these resorts, forests , ponds of shrimps..

In my district some forestmen became billionaire,. Some owners of ships ,land got a lot of billions became rich, they didn't need power, important function. All of people respect them because they have a lot of money. They can do a lot of thing that the others can't do it.such as benevolence, charity etc....

So, Nobody's story is an old conception. Today, it's a best way to reach wealth and prosperity. Sometimes, I wish to have a peaceful life like this but it's not easy, It depends a lot of matter, because money ,man force, foundation structure, courage all of them are very important.,,

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