What does Lewis mean when he says that not even his loving family could protect him from the “unholy oppression waiting just outside that family circle”? What is the “unholy oppression” to which he refers? Explain, using evidence.

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b. brooks wrote about the same type of neighborhood in which she grew up.

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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