Big Brain's Reviews > How Much Land Does A Man Need?

** spoiler alert ** Consisting of two stories laced with religious connotations and moral lessons, this book displays the influence of both the Christian God and the Devil. The first story displays the greed and hubris of man, as the protagonist shows an unimpeded lust for power and profit. This is consistently showcased through how the man gave up all his land and money when promised a larger plot of land for very low prices, continuing to scale the size of his land with the pretence that the acres of land he had were suffocating and isolating. The land never large enough, he proceeded to go to a field, where the leader of the small village challenged the man to claim the land that he could walk around. As the man slept before the day of the challenge began, the devil appeared in his dream, laughing uncontrollably at him and creasing with hysterical delight, linking to how at the start, the protagonist claimed that if he had a large enough plot of land he would be afraid of no one, not even the devil. In the end, the man died as a result of greed and exhaustion, despite completing the challenge. The second story showed how, in Christianity, God lives in man through man's love for one another and God. This was depicted through the angel helping the protagonist make up for how he had been saved from starvation and frostbite through the pity and kindness of the protagonist. In the end, we see the kindness and charitable nature of man stemming from love