"The Long Rain" explores the mental torture of overstimulation. The men hear constant noise, feel the constant dripping on their head and skin, and are constantly wet. In the space below write your reaction to this situation.

It is really a sad event when someone is in a situation whereby solution seems to be far off thereby leading to hallucination, and despondent behaviours.

For the men to feel the constant dripping of the rain on their head with no presence of the Sun Dome which they are searching is depressing. This is what made them to take some of the drastic actions they did inorder to end their misery. The toture they passed through over the course of their search was really bad

Explanation:

Throughout the thousands of years of Chinese history, it was common for rich Chinese men to have a wife and various concubines. Women were treated like slaves and prostitutes before the 1900s. Before the establishment of the People's Republic of China, when Mao Tse-Tung and the communist party took power in 1949, it was lawful to have a wife and multiple concubines within Chinese marriage. He pushed for gender equality and created policies to eliminate the oppression of women and he also outlawed many  of the old Chinese laws and traditions that they viewed as not benefiting the state.

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