OLDMAN AND THE SEA Self-check Questions and Answers 1. How many days had Santiago gone without catching fish? He has gone eighty-four days. 2. What do Manolin’s parents call Santiago? Why? They call him ‘Salao’ which means ‘the worst form of unlucky’ as Santiago was like this. 3. How do the other fishermen greet him? Why? They mock him for his fruitless voyages to sea. 4. Which description of Santiago makes the readers question his physical capabilities? The descriptions of his crude
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introduction of Maupassant’s writing‚ it is made clear that Madame Loisel has always wanted to do nothing‚ yet have everything. Maupassant satirically describes her blah lifestyle‚ saying‚ "She suffered endlessly‚ feeling herself born for every delicacy and luxury." Sick of being misunderstood and undervalued‚ Madame Loisel refuses to attend the
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Diamond Necklace: Mathile not only was she unhappy‚but also nothing seemed to make her happy.Some may say you cannot always have everything in life you may want. In the story "The Diamond Necklace" it shows us that greed and envy can lead to destruction. In this story Mathilde is a very envious woman whom always dreamed of a life that she could not have. She was very charming and beautiful woman who thought that she must have been born into the wrong life‚ Since she had no way of getting known
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dream of living a rich life‚ full of luxury‚ riches and servants. In the short story "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant‚ a middle-class woman named Madame Loisel desires that life style very much. In "The Necklace" Madame Loisel’s vain desires cause many conflicts and her ultimate downfall. One small conflict in the story is Madame Loisel vs. her husband. He is always trying to make his wife satisfied and she never appreciates him or their way of life. De Maupassant makes this clear in the
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Theme: Always have a moral compass and don’t let greed and arrogance take over. Title: The Interlopers
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What does it take to be hopeful? Hope is an everyday human experience that is so ruthlessly clichéd. Such word has been sorely worn out that‚ to a mere mortal like me‚ arriving at its essence is such a hopeless plight. I take Marion’s explanation of how hope is distinctive from mere calculation of possibility‚ expectation‚ optimism‚ vitality and stoicism then later attempt to understand how hope can lead to transfiguration. According to Marion‚ hope is always directed towards the future‚ making
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her his small savings to buy an evening address .However even after she has bought herself a beautiful dress‚ Mathilde is still not satisfied. She desires more and more and more .she complains that she has no jewelery. This is where we come to the TURNING POINT of the story for after she borrows the necklace from her friend there is a turn of events which leads to the FALLING ACTION .Her greed causes her to suffer unnecessarily. She loses the necklace and thinking it is a diamond necklace‚ she goes
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leading writers of the time like Émile Zola‚ Ivan Turgenev‚ Edmond Goncourt‚ and Henry James. · · "Maupassant’s work is thoroughly realistic. His characters inhabit a world of material desires and sensual appetites in which lust‚ greed‚ and ambition are the driving forces‚ and any higher feelings are either absent or doomed to cruel disappointment." · The tragic power of many of the stories derives from the fact that Maupassant presents his characters‚ poor people
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Maupassant‚ Madame Loisel is unhappy with her life and always wants more. Madame Loisel feels that she should have been born for luxury. She wants to have all these expensive items‚ such as jewelry. Her husband surprises her by getting her an invitation to the Minister of Education and Madame Ramponneau. She ends up borrowing a necklace from her friend and loses it. Madame Loisel and her husband then spent most of their lives on a journey to pay the necklace off. Madame Loisel constantly complained
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The Duchess and the Jeweler by Virginia Woolf The Duchess and the Jeweler by Virginia Woolf Summary The story “The Duchess and the Jeweler” reflects the English society of writer’s time. It was an age of change. The high-ups were coming down because of their moral decadence and the commoners were coming up. Once Oliver Bacon was very poor and lived in a filthy‚ little alley. He worked very hard and used fair and unfair means to become the richest jeweler of the England. He enjoys his present
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