CHRISTMAS EVERY DAY - WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

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OIL OF DOG - AMBROSE BIERCE

Final work 

CORRUPTION IS NOT THE SOLUTION

Why humans have the trend to corruption by a materialistic wish? The tale talks about a family that has different kind of businesses which were illegal, the father makes oil of dog and the mother takes over the unwelcome babies, one day the son of them takes over a unwelcome baby and he was going to through it to a river but like he was in the factory of his father the fast solution was through the baby in the vast were they prepared the oil dog, the next day the father have the news that the last night they make the best oil ever, the son decided to tell what he did and since that point their parents continue doing the oil with some humans, time later one night the mother and the father fight and the killed each other, that day their son knew all the horrible thing that they parents did. Because of this tale I get the next hypothesis, since long time ago the society had created some ideologies in which the most powerful control the world, taking into account this we can say that people need the power to survive, when the people can’t have that authority the corruption appear, continually the pressure of the society make that the human feel that materialistic wish that along the time people had teach us.

Since my point of view, I think that this is a great short story because the author use a weird situation for explain a problem in the real life, for example nowadays they are many crimes that are not punish, like the animal abuse, the abort etc…, the tale make that the reader imagine all that is passing in the text also in any part of the writing I get bored or confused this make that I like the reading, it is interesting know that maybe in a future, past or present this things of the oil dog and of the unwelcome babies pass, the author make that our imagination fly and that we analyze the impact that this history have in reality.

“These memoirs are written with a heart full of remorse for a heedless act entailing so dismal a commercial disaster.” Oil of Dog by Ambrose Bierce

Taking into account the initial question we can say that this quote is related because the author tell us that the business does not function with the corruption but it always is going to be present in the society, the culture make that people think in a specific way, that’s why the corruption exist because of the avaricious thinking, the material things and the money make that people lose all their values and start been a bad piece of the culture and society, the problem is that if just one person do in bad way their businesses a whole culture and society is going to be affect, because of this we have to take care with the future of the civilization.    

In Colombia nowadays and in the ancient times the corruption always is present, 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 and a materialist wish, 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 if you do bad the things all is going to be worse and that killing and mistreat people is not the solution, so this text make me open my eyes and see the reality in which we are living.

In conclusion we can say that the tale let us think and analyze the society and all the things that involve this topic, that corruption and the materialist wish is something that teach us the world in which we live.        

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce born in 1842 and died in 1914, he was a United States story teller and journalist, his works many of the times have sarcastic elements, what he write change and had a big influence in the Pacific coast, one of the events that mark the life of Ambrose was when he have to go to the war, and for 1868 he start working in a newspaper for 1913 Bierce go to Mexico following the Pancho Villa troops and he died in 1914.   

HOW THE WIDOW WON THE DEACON- WILLIAM JAMES LAMPTON

Write a comment taking into account the online marketing. 

For me the online marketing is a good alternative for buying books because we have an advantage that is not waste our time going to a library, in the other hand always since my point of view is better have the book in our hands because we have the opportunity to take notes or to smell the book etc, in this case the web page that is selling the short story of William James Lampton don’t put important information of the text, for example one of the most significant things at the moment of buying a book is known about what the story talk, the literary genre, some points of view of the readers and the score of the writing, in this web site they don’t show something of what I have mention, they even put that the main topic of the short story is that a widow is in love, I don’t like this page because with the information  they give us the people is not going to be interest for buying this text.      

Bibliography

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THE HANGING STRANGER - PHILIP K DICK

Write a critique using Colombian context

The Hanging Stranger by Philip K Dick, talk about a man called Loyce that found a man hanging in a lamppost, he was scared but nobody pay attention about it, what he doesn’t know was that everybody transforms in aliens, in his house he kill one of his sons and in one part of the story he disappeared and appeared in other place, for me this was a great short story all the elements make that the reader enjoys the text, I would like that the author include more details and that there appeared more parts with the aliens, taking into account the Colombian context we can related with the ignorance of the people because everybody in the story think that Loyce was crazy, also we can related with the discrimination in the Colombian society because some people criticize other humans just for the social status that they had or because the color of the skin, in conclusion The Hanging Stranger was a great story and give as a reflection in a writing that the reader adore and make that we stop and think about life.          

THE CHILD'S STORY- CHARLES DICKENS

Write a critique in one paragraph

The Child’s story by Charles Dickens was a great text because it involves many cultural aspects, one of them can be, the way the author take daily actions and make them interesting, in this writing we can say than since the first sentence the reader feel that is necessary finish the reading, since my point of view this was a great story but I don’t like that in all the story the author use the same base for the sentence that the traveler says when he found a new friend. “So, he said to the young man, "What do you do here?" And the young man said, "I am always in love. Come and love with me."” I think that repeat this sentence make the story bore and slow for the reader also I don’t like the character that was the wife of the gentleman because I think she don’t do great thing in the story so I would take she out of the story, taking out the elements that I mentioned the text would be perfect.  

THE FISH - ANTON CHEKHOV

Choose one quote explaining the relationship between culture and literature

The fish by Anton Chekhov talks about some men that are trying to catch a fish, when they finally catch the fish, unfortunately the animal escape, we can find the relationship between culture and literature because in this text the author is telling us something that is part of the daily life of that time, this is the cultural aspect of the writing.

“For a minute Yefim screws up his eye at the fishermen, then he takes off his bark shoes, throws his sack off his shoulders, and takes off his shirt. He has not the patience to take off his breeches, but, making the sign of the cross, he steps into the water, holding out his thin dark arms to balance himself.” 

The fish by Anton Chekhov

For me the literature is just a legacy of culture, that’s why the literature has always been relationed with cultural aspects.    

Illustration by Nia Banwell

A DEFENSELESS CREATURE - ANTON CHEKHOV

Explain the type of literature and the elements that has "A Defenseless Creature" by Anton Chekhov

This type of text can be a narration, report or a short story, that means that of the three types of literature that exist, we can put it in the primary group because in this writing increases the level of the detail and the time of publish is not too long, the elements of this short story are:

The main topic: Madame Shtchukin needs some money and Mister Kistunov is trying to explain her that the petition she has is not an issue of the bank.
The principal characters: Mister Kistunov the protagonist of the story (he is the bank worker) and Madame Shtchukin a lady that has the petition of the roubles (she is the defenseless creature).
The time: In the morning till the end of the day.
The place: In a bank.
The conflict: Between Madame Shtchukin and Mister Kistunov.