Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
English 8 Literatures of
the World
A Prelim Requirement
By:
Aiko M. Orio
Mizpah T. Pasion
June 6, 2016
towards the sun. Red zigzags of lightning gleam here and there
across it. There is a sound of far-away rumbling. A warm wind
frolics over the grass, bends the trees, and stirs up the dust. In a
minute there will be a spurt of May rain and a real storm will
begin.
Danilka looks at Terenty and greedily drinks in every word. In
spring, before one is weary of the warmth and the monotonous
green of the fields, when everything is fresh and full of
fragrance, who would not want to hear about the goldenmaybeetles, about thecranes, about the gurgling streams, and the
2. Countrys Religion
a. Russia
b. "Don't touch it, you might disturb them," says Terenty, wringing the
water out of his cap. "The nightingale is a singing-bird, without sin. He
has had a voice given him in his throat, to praise God and gladden the
heart of man. It's a sin to disturb him."What about the sparrow?"
"The sparrow doesn't matter, he's a bad, spiteful bird. He is like a
pickpocket in his ways. He doesn't like man to be happy. When Christ
was crucified it was the sparrow brought nails to the Jews, and called
'alive! alive!' "
(A Day in the Country
By: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov)
Plot:
Several men have been sent to Siberia for
some crime or other. One is a total cynic and
welcomes his imprisonment, seeing himself as
actually free, since no one can tell him what to do
and he has virtually no responsibilities. He lives,
in this very limited sense, freely.
The others around him dream of going back
to wherever they came from, dreaming also of
lovers and families and a future. But the cynic
constantly criticizes them as missing the point of
life, which is, on his view, to want nothing, need
nothing and thus to be free.
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