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They caught me. My father was beaten to near death. Some of them were students, whose parents were peasants. Some of them were teachers, who used to be his best friends. They had tasted the carp. In the stanza above, what does Wang use the symbol of the carp to illustrate?

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He uses it to signify that they had all died 
User Renefritze
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They died- definitely and finally
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