"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.