Carlo Levi's Christ Stopped at Eboli

             In the world we live in today, countries and nations have formed .

             The superpowers remain at the tip of the pyramid, the .

             middle class of the developed, and the developing or less advanced at.

             the base. These primitive cultures or the lower class cannot mobilize .

             upward in society because the world cannot help them. Those who do only .

             aid those with potential and countries whose resources would be beneficial .

             to their own policies. There is no hope for these people as they see .

             the world expanding and competition for power and superiority remains. .

             Struggle embodies the individual and the casted civilization they live .

             in as the outside world continues to prosper, reigning above them. Christ Stopped at Eboli, by Carlo Levi, exemplifies an age-old repression of .

             a people without hope because of an outside world that suppresses them. .

             This eyewitness account demonstrates how the outside world does not .

             provide resolutions their desolate existence and to help alleviate the conditions of daily life.

             The distance between the state, the outer world and the people, .

             the inner world, creates an ignorance that the state refuses to attend. It .

             is widely known the two factors for the makeup of a civilization lies in .

             the people and the state or the state and its people. Without one or the .

             other to depend on, reliance hinders stability. The functional branch or government in Rome is thousands of miles away that there is a barrier .

             between the Italian people. Because the capital is not located in the .

             village, they cannot interact and develop a personal fulfillment of .

             needs. The mind and power of the state should be planted into the hands .

             of the people so that contact solves sympathy and loyalty. For this .

             reason, Gagliano cannot advance and develop as a 'people' of the state.

             Rome has suppressed their civilians as well as their own people. As a .

             pitiless attempt to equip the people, they send police to experience .

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