The Child’s Story- Charles Dickens

This story was published in the mid-1800s by Charles Dickens and talks about a magic journey in which all of us are in, the life.

“And was to seem very long when he began it, and very short when he got half way through.”

This story shows all the stages of the life, the childhood, the adolescence, the moment in which we have to lose an important person, or the moment we must look when our life is gone, when the leaves of the tree are falling down.

The path all of us must walk always until the moment the wood turns yellow, is a path in which we must play, learn, be in love, be busy, meat a lot of friends and also lose them and finally sit down to remember all things we lived.

And at the end we are going to notice that we had not lost anything, because each one of the steps in this path let us one experience and knowledge. Each person that crosses our path let to us something good or bad but at the end we always learn, and that is why we are here.

I think this story is so interesting because since the first moment the author takes us to a very descriptive world, with a lot of details, and descriptions and this makes that the readers wants to go deeper through the story. Is so nice because the background of this story depend a lot of the perspective of each reader and the interpretation each person wants to give for each line of the story because all of us think in a different way and that is why this story takes each person to a different memory of their life, can be the moments the person used to play or the first love. I think the author wanted that in the moment a person read this literary work fell a lot of things and this is the essence of The Child's story and this is what makes this story its way of fascinating.

Bibliography:

     1.    americanliterature.com/author/charles-dickens/short-story/the-childs-story

     2. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePFcOdfeTCg

     3. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmRMjCfLEtA

The Fish by Anton Chekhov.

Literature and culture.

The literature is one part of art, the art of showing an idea, a feeling, or knowledge in a topic using the letters and by mean of this to influence the culture.

Since always literature and culture have been of the hand, all cultural aspects during the whole history are show in books, tales, poems, journals, newspapers, etc. And all these things have an influence in the culture nowadays.

To understand the cultural aspects in this story we most know the cultural influences the writer had, Anton Chekhov was a Russian short story writer, and we can say that one important industry in Russia is the fishing, in all cultures the people try always to find a way of surviving, people that are near the lakes, rivers or oceans use this as method of sustainability and to show all attempts those men had to capture the eel-pout is a sample of those cultural aspects.

“The fish makes a sudden, unexpected upward movement with its tail and the fishermen hear a loud splash . . . they all put out their hands, but it is too late; they have seen the last of the eel-pout”

-Anton Chekhov; The Fish.

Five men in a boat were trying to capture an eel-pout, they worked hard, they had some problems and discussions between them, but they were always metallized in fishing the eel-pout. When finally they obtain their goal, that fish scapes of their hands, and they could not do anything.

It does not matter how much time you spend trying to do something, it does not matter how much energy you spend, in one second all these effort can be uselessly, and that thing you obtain can escape of your hands.

One person teaches me that it does not matter the time an Olympic sportsman spend preparing its self to a competition, in one second is able to lose everything.

That happens in the tale, that happen in the life, and Anton Chekhov show by mean of literature how society and culture have been living that situation since always. 

Bibliography
1.americanliterature.com/author/anton-chekhov/short-story/the-2.fishhttp://www.lanqua.eu/theme/literature-and-culture

A DEFENSELESS CREATURE- ANTON CHEKHOV

Type of literature and story elements 

The short story of Anton Chekhov talks about one woman which her husband Shtchukin, a collegiate assessor was ill during five months and she was going to a bank to ask for his salary. But she never realized a bank was the wrong place to ask it.

This story takes place in the bank office of Kistunovin in which the whole story is developed.

The problem in which all story developed was the salary of Mister Shtchukin but we can also say that the attitude and insistence was the biggest part of the problem and as a consequence the health of Kistunovin was affected.

The solution of that problematic in the story was finally gave to Madame Sktchunkin part of the money she was asking for… But was it a real solution?

I do not think that, because she goes again the next day for the same think and that will make the story repeat again.

The main characters in the story are:

•  Madame Shtchukin  the woman that wants people  see her as a victim, saying all the time she was weak, ill and that none understood her situation.
• Kistunovin,The one that always has direct communication with Madame Shtchukin, he always tried to explain Madame Shtchukin that he can not do anything to solve her problem.
• Shtchukin  who never was directly in the story, but all things that happened there happened  because of him.

Finally we can  conclude this story is part of the second type of literature because  the literature of Anton Chekhov are mainly tales in which he narrated  situations with concise and precise details and by mean of this the reader has a big mental image of all things in the story.

He was also recognized by his books, and his literary works are all in the second type.

Bibliography:

1. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0qq0h4xN34&feature=youtu.be 
2. http://images.slideplayer.com/5/1491129/slides/slide_9.jpg
3. americanliterature.com/author/anton-chekhov/short-story/a-defenseless-creature

  -Angie Garay.