House.of.Gaso
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
"Dr. Heidegger's
Experiment:" Story Analysis
Biography:
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in the city of Salem,
Massachusetts to Nathaniel
Hawthorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. He published several short
stories in various periodicals; Hawthorne died on May 19, 1864, and was
survived by his wife and their three children. His fiction works are considered
part of the Romantic Movement
and, more specifically, dark
romanticism.
Summary
of the story:
The story started when Dr. Heidegger invite 4 people to his
house, in his laboratory he gives them water from the fountain of youth, those
4 people ruined their lives when they were young, he wants to give them a
second chance so they can make it right, unfortunately they don’t change, keep
being the same people they were before, at the end the grow old again and Dr.
Heidegger learns nothing from them.
Story's
plot:
Characters
in the story:
Dr. Heidegger was a very singular old man, he lost the love
of his life then he started to study about the youth fountain.
Mr. Medbourne, in the vigor of his age, had been a
prosperous merchant, but had lost his all by a frantic speculation, and was now
little better than a mendicant.
Colonel Killigrew had wasted his best years in the pursuit
of sinful pleasures, which had given birth to a brood of pains, such as the
gout, and divers other torments of soul and body.
Mr. Gascoigne was a ruined politician, a man of evil fame,
or at least had been so till time had buried him from the knowledge of the
present generation, and made him obscure instead of infamous.
Widow Wycherly, tradition tells us that she was a great
beauty in her day; but, for a long while past, she had lived in deep seclusion
Moral
of the story:
There are some people that even when they get a second
chance to do things different they keep making the same mistakes, somehow even
after failure they think that they can get a different result doing the same
thing over and over again.
Personal
opinion:
I loved the story, it shows us how some people
can destroy their own life, and even getting a second and final chance to
change they won’t do it, we humans can be so into ourselves that it can
actually be pretty scary, if we’ve done something wrong but still get a chance
to fix it, that’s what we should do, fix it! Not do it again.
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
"Three Hundred Pesos:" Story Analysis
"Three Hundred Pesos:" Story
Analysis
Author’s Biography: Manuela Williams Crosno (1905-1977)
Manuela Williams Crosno was an English teacher who spent most of
her life as a resident of New Mexico. Interested in Hispanic-American culture,
she set her many short stories, poems, and illustrations. Many of these works
were published in two collections.
ABOUT THE STORY
The “Three Hundred Pesos” tells the story of a family, in which one
of the three brothers really needed help to take care of his child who was
pretty sick, another brother who was able to help Anastacion out lending him
some a little money, but still didn’t want to do it becasuse nothing was more
important than money for him and the other one was Berta, she was different,
she wanted to help him, she knew Anastacio was not a good brother or human
being either way.
CHARACTERES:
Anastacio is the main character,
he’s the typical person who doesn’t think about anyone, but himself, he didn’t
care about the pain his own brother was going through, the only one thing that
did matter for him was money, so into it that didn’t realize how important was
that peso for his brother.
Bertha is Anastacio´s sister,
she had a different perspective of life, she helped Emilio at the same time she
was able to see the kind of brother they had, she was a way better person that
him.
Emilio is Anastacio´s brother,
he was pretty much like Berta, but he had no money, he was the one with the
toughest situation, with a sick kid and no money to help him out, a pretty
honest man.
MORAL OF THE STORY
The Three Hundred Pesos story tells us that there are more
important things in life that money, if you don’t care about anything, but
money soon you will have no one there for you, money doesn’t mean anything if
you don’t use it to help your family!
My Opinion
My Opinion
I didn’t like the story at all, I come from a very small family,
since a was very young I was taught to help whoever needs help, I hated the
fact that Anastacio is more into money than helping his own family, at the end
of the day they are all we have.
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