REGRET BY KATE CHOPIN

Make a dialogue between two characters

DIALOGUE

When Mrs. Odile left her children with her neighbor Mamzelle Aurlie, she went to the station accompanied by Valsin

Odile: Mr. Valsin is very kind of you to take me to the station

Valsin: is a pleasure, it is also the least I can do considering what is going on, it has not to be easy to have your husband away and your mother ill

Odile: yes, it is a difficult situation, but now what worries me the most are my children, I do not know if Miss Mamzelle Aurlie will take good care of them, do you think I take a good decision?

Valsin: Mrs. Odile you had no choice, besides the neighboring Mamzelle Aurlie is a good woman

Odile: of course, I do not doubt it at all, but sometimes I worry about she and I do not know if she is a good influence for my kids

Valsin: what it is the reason for your concern?, neighboring Mamzelle Aurlie can be a bit strange but i assured that she will take good care of your children

Odile: your words are of great help, and with respect to your question Mr. Valsin I care about neighboring Mamzelle Aurlie because of its loneliness, it is alarming that at this age she do not have a husband

Valsin: I guess Mrs. Odile that no man has come to love Miss

Odile: I considered that impossible, at some point in her life she must fell in love, maybe it was a forbidden love and today she laments silently

Valsin: maybe it can be Mrs. Odile, but in all cases that did not get her rid of his singleness

Odile: definitely, you have given me a great idea, when i return to take care of my mother and my husband is at home I will find a husband to Miss Mamzelle Aurlie

Valsin: I hope you have good luck neighboring Mamzelle Aurlie is demanding

Odile: sure, she will not be this year without a wedding ring in her hands

Valsin: If you say so Mrs. Odile

Odile and Valsin continued talking until she reach the station, Mrs. Odile parted not without constantly recommend visiting Miss Mamzelle Aurlie and her children to Mr. Valsin.

Bibliography:

https://americanliterature.com/author/kate-chopin/short-story/regret

THE STORY OF AN HOUR BY KATE CHOPIN

Write 10 words that are pronounced the same

Air / Heir

·         The air was blowing to the south ( air = aire )

·         Felipe is the heir of this fortune (heir = heredero )

For / Four

·         I need the book for the math class ( for = para )

·         I have four pencils ( four = cuatro)

Hour / Our

·         In one hour I have an important meeting ( hour = hora)

·         Our house is located in Bogotá (our = nuestro (s )/nuestra (s) )

Made / Maid

·         I made a letter for my boyfriend ( made = pasado de make )

·         The maid cleans the apartment (maid = empleada doméstica )

Soul / Sole

·         Rock save my soul ( soul = alma )

·         I put a new sole to my shoes ( sole = suela )

Would / Wood

·         She would never kiss Santiago ( would = haría / quería )

·         Most of the tables are made of wood ( wood = madera )

There / Their

There were a lot of people ( there = allí / allá / ahí )

People lose their minds ( their = sus )

Blue / Blew

·         My T-shirt is blue ( blue = azul )

·         The wind blew ( blew = pasado de blow )

Hear / Here

·         I hear you have a new friend (hear = oír )

·         Here you have the documents you asked ( here = aquí )

To / Two

·         I listen to music (to = a )

·         I have two scissors  ( two = dos )

 Bibliography:

https://americanliterature.com/author/kate-chopin/short-story/the-story-of-an-hour

THE MCWILLIAMSES AND THE BURGLARD ALARM BY MARK TWAIN

Make a poem using 10 unknown words  

ENCLOSED IN A BODY

I woke up in the harem

It is difficult to be sit on this chair all the days of my life

People call me cripple

Mom and sister says that I hobbled their lives

I see faces and I heard voices but for them I’m invisible

They can’t listen to my voice; I can’t move my legs or my arms

I should commit suicide but I can’t even do that

People tell that what I say is seemingly wanton

I squirm asking for help, am enclosed in this body 

I’m gradually fading toward the end of the world maybe that’s a better place

People are made of miscellaneous experiences

I can’t write my own history, am just a tinware for the creation 

Today I have a dazzling idea that wouldn’t be heard like always

My father doesn’t refurnished my chair since 1995

He continue talking pleasantly with my mom and just for one second he look at my eyes

And everything is flawless.

Bibliography:

https://americanliterature.com/author/mark-twain/short-story/the-mcwilliamses-and-the-burglar-alarm

QUOTE OF A TRUE STORY, REPEATED WORD FOR WORD AS I HEARD IT BY MARK TWAIN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwLqls8il7Y

Bibliography:

https://americanliterature.com/author/mark-twain/short-story/a-true-story-repeated-word-for-word-as-i-heard-it

QUOTE OF ONE AUTUMN NIGHT BY MAXIM GORKY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcWZe_4oDJY

Bibliography:

https://americanliterature.com/author/maxim-gorky/short-story/one-autumn-night

RIKKI TIKKI TAVI- RUDYARD KIPLING/THE SELFISH GIANT,THE MODEL MILLIONAIRE- OSCAR WILDE

Write a hypothesis, a 5 paragraph text and choose one epigraph 

THE ADVANTAGE OF BEING RICH

“Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”

The Model Millionaire by Oscar Wilde

Why the world is divided in social classes when everybody has the same rights? The tale talks about a man called Hughie Erskine, he was unemployed and was in love with a beautiful girl the problem was that for marry she he have to got ten thousand pounds, one day he met with an old friend called Alan Trevor, he was painting a beggar-man, Hughie feel pity for the model of the painting and gave him sovereign, later he discovered that the beggar-man was one of the richest men in London, finally the rich man help Hughie to marry the beautiful girl and they lived happily ever after, with this tale I get the next hypothesis, since long time ago the society establish that the people with money control the world, and the poor people are despised, the social classes exist because the ones that are rich feel scared of the real power that have the poor people.

Since my point of view I think that this tale show as the reality, nowadays the people just thing in their benefit not of the others, with this we only get that the world continue in that road of darkness and selfish, I love this tale because is a funny story that give us hope, for example the rich man show that there are people that make the difference, the author use easy words and the story have coherence this make that the readers understand the context of the text, also I like that the principal character is in love with someone, this make me think that there are people that continue loving and fighting for that special person not like in the XXI century that they just feel lust.

“Poor old wretch! I wish I could do something for him. I think it is dreadful that any one should be so miserable” The Model Millionaire by Oscar Wilde

Taking into account this quote we can related it with the pity of the rich men when they saw a poor person, also we can say that for them it is easy to talk about money or the opportunities that give us the life, the real problem is that they don’t know about all the efforts that poor people do for having something to eat or just for survive, the culture makes that people thing that money is the synonymous of happiness when this is not true, maybe the rich men just work each hour of the day for have material things but they never appreciated the little things of life, the society and the culture created among the time the idea that the best way for organizing a civilization was with the social classes, but they forget the damage that this brings.

In Colombia nowadays and in the ancient times the social classes always exist, one of the big problems of our country is that many people have different ideas for change the situation in which we are but all is a business, maybe one day people understand that not because they have big houses and beautiful cars they are better than a poor person, in the tale they teach us that the good actions are rewarded, that the social classes just bring ruin and evil desires.

In conclusion we can say that the tale hide a whole social context in that funny story, the author created a beautiful text that let us think and analyze all the bad things that have the world and the society in which we live, also that the social classes is just something stipulated that brings destruction, the tale give us hope because we can say that nowadays there are people like the rich men that help Hughie Erskine.            

Bibliography

https://americanliterature.com/author/oscar-wilde/short-story/the-model-millionaire

https://americanliterature.com/author/oscar-wilde/bio-books-stories

https://americanliterature.com/author/oscar-wilde/short-story/the-selfish-giant

https://americanliterature.com/author/rudyard-kipling/short-story/rikki-tikki-tavi

KEW GARDENS- VIRGINIA WOOLF

Poem

BETOKENING our love made me realize that it was all a mistake,

The day when we decide to UNFURLING our feelings to the world you gave me that little PEBBLE,

In order to CIRCUMVENT that i forget how much you wanted me,

NIGHTINGALES sang CEASELESSLY,

Warning me that you are going to break my heart and leave it like little CRUMBS,

How to forget that beautiful CANDLESTICK the night when you took me to dinner,

The MUTTERING of MYRIADS telling me I was doing wrong,

You were not able to tell me the truth ABREAST,

And all finished with a something simple like love is over.