What are the elements in the story that point to the fact that 1980s-Italy is a country in the middle of changes, even in its rural and traditional areas?

Answer the following questions, each one with a short paragraph (75 words or so for each answer; 200-250 total words). You can add your answers by clicking on “Write submission”.
1) In this story, the narrator shows us around Leo’s old village, the house in which he grew up, and his bedroom when he was a teenager. Can you identify three elements or objects that changed or that are missing, and that the narrator uses to represent the end of Leo’s adolescence?
2) At the beginning of the story, the main character Leo talks to himself as he looks at the short road between the house where he was born and the village cemetery. He says:
No matter how much Leo has travelled the world, no matter how many places he has lived in, or will live in across the length and breadth of Europe, his whole life will be contained in this walk that leads from his birthplace to the graveyard. […] “Here and yonder” is a mental attitude that he now repeats as he looks along the boulevard and then back to the windows that gave him the first view of his life. “Here and yonder” sums up his whole life.
What do you think he means by “Here and yonder”? How does that sum up his whole life? Do we get any insight of what he means by yonder in the following pages? Or is yonder death?
3) What are the elements in the story that point to the fact that 1980s-Italy is a country in the middle of changes, even in its rural and traditional areas? What are the elements that point to the fact that some traditional (perhaps even bigoted) aspects are still strong?

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