Trevor's socialist views

[Bassim]

Would you please correct the mistakes in my sentences?

Trevor's socialist views were shaped by his father who believed that socialism and communism were the future of humankind. Even on his deathbed he didn't stop rambling about Marx, Engels, and the equal society. Trevor still could see in his mind's eye his mother sitting beside his father's bed, crying and shaking her head. She always hated to hear Benn talking about politics and would leave the room as soon as he started his monologue. She couldn't stand people who dreamed about Shangri-La while real life was passing by them.

When Trevor was a teenager, he bought Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago as a present to Benn's birthday, believing he was going to like it, but his father's reaction was the opposite. He glared at its cover and, without thanking him, put the book on the bookshelf, never to open it. Trevor understood that he had made a mistake by giving him the book, and also that his father didn't want to know what was really going on in his socialist Paradise. After Benn's death, he packed all his books in cardboard boxes and donated them to a charity shop. He kept only Solzhenitsyn's book, which he couldn't read without thinking of his father's naivety.

 

[emsr2d2]

"Benn" is a very unlikely spelling of a man's name. Try "Ben". Initially, I thought you were talking about Tony Benn, a relatively famous British right-wing politician who gave extremely inflammatory speeches.

 

[Bassim]

emsr2d2,
I think you mixed up Tony Benn, who was a Labor politician with Enoch Powell, known for his "rivers of blood" speech.

 

[Tdol]

Tony Benn was not right-wing. He was accused of many things, but not that.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

"Benn" is a very unlikely spelling of a man's name. Try "Ben". Initially, I thought you were talking about Tony Benn, a relatively famous British right-wing politician who gave extremely inflammatory speeches.

Hm. I looked him up in Wiki (not always reliable), and it says: "Benn was widely seen as a key proponent of democratic socialism and Christian socialism. Originally considered a moderate within the party, he was identified as belonging to its left wing after leaving ministerial office. The term "Bennite" came into usage as someone associated with left-wing politics."

So - I wonder!

 

[jutfrank]

Tony Benn was for decades a very well-known figure in British politics. He's strongly associated with the left.

 

[emsr2d2]

I can't even begin to explain how I mixed up Tony Benn and Enoch Powell! I'm a numpty. Sorry!

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Would you please correct the mistakes in my sentences?

Trevor's socialist views were shaped by his father, who believed that socialism and communism were the future of humankind. Even on his deathbed he didn't stop rambling about Marx, Engels, and the equal society. Trevor still could see in his mind's eye his mother sitting beside his father's bed, crying and shaking her head. She always hated to hear Ben talking about politics and would leave the room as soon as he started his monologues. She couldn't stand people who dreamed about Shangri-La while real life was passing by them.

When Trevor was a teenager, he bought Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago as a present for Ben's birthday, believing he was going to like it, but his father's reaction was the opposite. He glared at its cover and, without thanking him, put the book on the bookshelf, never to open it. Trevor understood that he had made a mistake by giving him the book[STRIKE],[/STRIKE] and also that his father didn't want to know what was really going on in his socialist Paradise. After Ben's death, Trevor packed all his father's books in cardboard boxes and donated them to a charity shop. He kept only Solzhenitsyn's book, which he couldn't read without thinking of his father's naivety.

There's not much to fix.

The last paragraph had some pronoun confusion. That's something to be careful of. You might notice that in English-language newspapers, names are spelled out more often than necessary and pronouns are used less often. It's to make clear that a dead father didn't pack his own books.