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"What does the author mean “sometimes he felt he was being torn in two by the hoping and the not-hoping?” From A Long Walk To Water.

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Hoping and not hoping was a vicious circle. If he hoped too much, he could be severely disappointed, but without hope you cannot survive. This means he sort of was in a dillema.

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