Research Paper On Snowman

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Roving with Snowman through the garbage-strewn moonscape of a messy and totaled world, no reader will be able to restrain a shiver of fear superimposing acknowledgment. Snowman is no powerfully built or heroic specimen blessed by physical competence. The unrelenting sun burns him, he is bitten by insects and he is potential prey to every misaligned and malign creature created by scientific experiment. His survival is accidental more than intentional and his comic reactions, getting drunk, trying to wear a sheet as a toga, suggest the extent to which man would have to go through in the future without any help from the Mother

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