Taoism Chapter Summaries

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Overall this chapter implies to the story as a whole my mentioning Taoism and touching upon the fact that the Rabbit will never feel how a Taoist feels. Taoist are people who are similar to Pooh and Rabbit is definitely the opposite of that as he never seems to seize a moment he just continues on working and reworking. There are multiple messages that can be examined during this conscice chapter. A lesson that is quite possibly the most meaningful would be “Cursing the world, which is not to blame but which is there to help show the way.” (Benjamin Hoff pg 99). Personally this quote was the best out of all the paradoxes. As I have explained before this quote is meaningful since we hate the world which brought us here and has provided us with

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