The Child's story by Charles Dickens

Activity: write a critique about it in a paragraph

This story by Charles dickens tell the relationship between an unknown traveler and the live of a men, since it was a child until he became an elder. this story is maybe a time line done by dickens to show the changes of the human across the time, how it changes always their interests and what he believe, it show us the natural path of the human being and  even provides or includes the marriage and the formation of a family as something essential in the life of an ordinary person ,on the other hand it also shows us that the love and work are fundamental for our lives and feeling complete and happy, all happening with the presence of an unknown traveler. The last part of the story develops with the biggest fear of a human, the death, making us think that it is here where only oblivion born, but just in the lines that are below we discover that this is false and maybe if we analyze what we can see as dickens perspective of live and death we can say that the death is just another union between people with another life and memories. The traveler who is the main character thinks that he has been gains and loses persons across his road, he doesn't release that he has been watching just a normal man growing and aging, but finally he knows its purpose which is to grow for live, and live to see others grow just like any Grandfather of the world, finally we discover who is the unknown traveler

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 I consider that this is an amazing story because is an interpretation of something that happens every day in the front of our eyes, but we think other simple and banal things are miracles so we left far the amazing nature around us calling them ordinary things, as I say before I think that this story is a time line of the human being  live but taking into account everything we had read in this story we can say that the time is the only thing that can changes us, but also looking back in time we release who we are and what we can be in the future, what is necessary to improve or change  for everyone to feel good as the human being who is ,may be anyone in the world want to grow old but today we have more wisdom than yesterday and less than the one we will tomorrow ,who we are, where we are going and with whom we will be are our questions but dickens shows us that each person we will always have a traveler by her or his side , is by this I think this story is very good because variations of our lives were never exposed in that way we looked like fun , this story is excellent because  beyond be showing a path to follow shows a reality that not many people are able to accept, the beginning of life and the end of this.  

"The fish" by Antón Chéjov

 Activity: choose one quote explaining the relationship of culture and literature.

 

"You'll give us half a rouble for it presently if we oblige you. . . . A huge eel-pout, as fat as a merchant's wife. . . . It's worth half a rouble, your honour, for the trouble. . . . Don't squeeze him, Lubim, don't squeeze him, you'll spoil him! Push him up from below! Pull the root upwards, my good man . . . what's your name? Upwards, not downwards, you brute! Don't swing your legs!".

This quote is an example of the relationship between culture and literature, the literature is the art of the written productions with an artistic or intellectual value, and culture is what  represent the people, culture is what influence them to take their decisions and in a philosophical manner of thinking culture is what make us, the culture in the literature takes part of the daily life events that happens around us, for get to the readers and make them feel confortable with what they are reading, for let them see between the lines and letters of a book, tale or whatever that they are reading something closer to its own reality and perspective to make them  understand better what is the topic about. The literature and the culture complement each other ,as culture takes part of the daily life, literature takes part of the culture as inspiration because culture is what make us and for example in the tale talking about the characters we can see that they have like simple works we can see in the countryside, Some worked with agriculture and animals and others with their own hands, so this mean that may be in their culture or in the region they live the works they have are the only sources of any income or cash that are more accepted and bring benefits, the example of this is in the quote because says that they will receive money for catch an eel-pout, we can have an idea of were and how they live by this and knowing this we have clear their culture, another thing that we can say represent the culture of the caracteres in the tale are the jokes they commonly used, as an example we can see in the quote the characters references of a merchants wife, we already know that this is just for the readers attention and entertainment for trying to show just one reality where everybody is inside, now after all this we can see how literature and culture can be one for the readers, for the ones that keep them both alive.

Type of literature and elements of "a defenseless creature" by Antón Chejov

From the three different types of literature that exist we can say that this tale belong to a primary maybe "simple" type of literature, because is a documentation of the events across some specific time. this can be a report or even a email, we can also compared the story with journals and newspapers which are examples of  secondary literature type but its better to say that the story is from the primary type of literature, the setting from the story is the bank, the three main characters are, Kistunov, a bank employer, Alexey Nikolaitch, another bank employer and pal of Kistunov and finally Madame Shtchukin, the woman who goes to the bank. The plot of the story develops in a woman transforming a normal day in a bank into a nightmare, this woman goes one day to the bank to solve a problem about her husband salary who is ill, the conflict begins when the employers of the bank tell her that the solution of her problem is not in a bank, so they try to convince her to go somewhere to a place in which someone related with her problems can help her, but the woman just annoys the employers making they go insane, so finally for solve all as the solution of the story we have that the employers give her the money she was asking for , this happens because the two employers were so tired and irritated about her, so as they can find another choice they give her what she wants, and that money wasn´t money of the bank, that was money of their own pockets and then when the woman looked well served and watch in her hands what she was claiming she left the bank, but at the next day she was there again claiming for something she already has.