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you can found the stories here:
after the race: https://americanliterature.com/author/james-joyce/short-story/after-the-race
eveline:https://americanliterature.com/author/james-joyce/short-story/eveline
a hunger artist:https://americanliterature.com/author/franz-kafka/short-story/a-hunger-artist

MOUNTAIN DIAGRAM-A HUNGER ARTIST BY FRANZ KAFKA

A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka:https://americanliterature.com/author/franz-kafka/short-story/a-hunger-artist

LITERATURE

Loving books and tales, is part of loving life
It's hard to understand her, she's a mistery or
That's what she wants to be
Even if love em', every day must be different.
Roads are better with a child
And suspicious without them
The joy kills, be careful
U mus' not keep youngster for anyone
Roses are red, violets are blue, Bingley scaped and Lydia too
Every one needs and had had a little trouble

For more info: https://americanliterature.com/100-great-short-stories

DESIRE-"COVER"

Paula Martinez Sara Triana :( #notalent #notGoodEditing

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Regret - Kate Chopin

Dialogue between aunt Ruby and Odile

Ruby:  I had raised five an' buried six, I can tell ya’ some things ’bout ‘em kid.

Odile: I think I’ll wait my husband, then ya’ can tell me, wat ever ‘bout these youngsters.

Ruby: I see dat those chile bring ya’ many problem’ sich as playin’ wid everything, dat maight be a problem.

Odile: Please, Aunt Ruby, I'm half-crazy wid the chil'ren, jus’ tell Mamzelle Aurlie don’t leave ‘em an' Lon not home.

you may find this text: https://americanliterature.com/author/kate-chopin/short-story/regret

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The story of an hour - Kate Chopin

Its-It´s

"He had only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a second telegram, (…)”

“it’s 9:30 and he isn´t home yet”

Were- Where

“I don´t know where she is “

“They were in the cinema while we were studying “

This-These

“I like this t-shirt”

“These are too many mistakes”

Too- two. To

“She will be there too”

“There are two windows”

“Give this to your mom”

His- he´s

“He´s so funny”

“This is his room”

Hear- here

“I can hear music all day long”

“I wish I could stay here with my dog”

Whose- who´s

“He's a man whose opinion I respect”

“Who´s this phone”

There- Their

“There are many things I don´t know yet”

“Their mom is so angry”

Blue-Blew

“I love the blue skirts”

“A cold wind blew the leaves”

Rose-rows

“The rose and gold of dawn”

“Last night I saw a garden with rows of sunflowers”

America, America.

"The past was a better time"
"any time in the past was better"
hackneyed old sayings
heathen  gods
no one paid a forfeit
it´s hard know
it´s easy to hate 'em and pity us
the slyness was bestowed on them
a plumber who thinks is God
this is nothing but
and useless handkerchief
an irksome burglar.

A True Story, Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It- Mark twain

"She was a cheerful, hearty soul, and it was no more trouble for her to laugh than it is for a bird to sing."

One Autumn Night- Maxim Gorky

"In our present state of culture hunger of the mind is more quickly satisfied than hunger of the body."

Selfish unconsciously

Sometimes we ask for things for selfish reasons, because we think that is going to be beneficial but we ask it blindly and this end up

being a mess and brings with it serious consequences (Most of the times) and even though we see cases like these ones daily, we don’t realize it because we live in them.

This tale called Christmas every day Written by William Dean Howells shows us two of these examples. The tale is divided into two parts. The first one is where the second part is told. The second part is a tale inside the tale.

In the first part the little girl came into her papa’s study and ask him for a tale, he tried to beg off for he was too busy but the little girl did not let him. This is the first example; this is one of those which are not that bad, because it does not have serious consequences.

In the second part (This is the tale papa told his daughter) a little girl who enjoy Christmas a lot, beg the Christmas fairy to make Christmas every day and she did it, things went out of control, there were no trees, no money except of the owners of the stores, food was so expensive, etc. This is the second example; this one has a serious consequence and it means a strong loss.

The little girl in this second example asked for something that at the beginning seemed to be good, but it end up being a catastrophe. This is a really strong example of what is said at the beginning, because as she thought she love Christmas everyone else would do and because she did not think about what would happened, she was completely blind by the pleasure that she just affect everyone in the world without think about consequences.

This selfishness is all around the world and had been the causative of many bad things that had happened in the history. There is something called Psychological egoism which is the view that humans are always motivated by self-interest. (Coincidence? I do think so). This means that selfishness is part of people since the young age regardless the nationality or the country of origin.

As a conclusion I may say that my hypothesis is right, we ask for things for selfish reasons, because we think that is going to be good, we ask it blindly and it end up being a wrong thing. Technically human beings are selfish unconsciously.

Sara Triana/Bogotá D.C/June, 2o16

Christmas Every day- William Dean Howellshttps://americanliterature.com/author/william-dean-howells/short-story/christmas-every-day

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling

Based on this text I may evidence that the animals are acting just as wicked as humans who fight and kill for power, and that greed is stronger than moral. Animals in this text are imperialist, humans can be nice too. But goodness cannot exist without evil.

"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. "
                                                                -Oscar Wilde, The model millionaire

This text called Rikki-Tikki-Tavi written by Rudyard Kipling is about a mongoose, a brave mongoose, which fights against big and dangerous snakes without fear.
The author of the text shows us the wicked and evil pat of the idiom “survival of the fittest” but in a more human way.

The snake and his wife wanted to kill the humans who lived there because they did want to be the only owners of the place and make it their own kingdom, in which they were the only king and queen, Except of their kids, they were mad because their land was occupied by strangers, the land they seized.

The seized that land because was a place in which they can have a comfortable life, in which they can take care of their babies while they grow up, making sure they are safe and sound, then give them the land so they can keep the bequeathed.

A small but brave mongoose played the hero in this text. Is bewitching that a small mongoose scared the big, dangerous and selfish snakes, He wasn’t afraid of them, he actually was really pissed off by them and for him and his family that was unforgivable.

This brave mongoose proved his bravery fighting against the snakes for the humans; he will take a shot just to defend the innocent, he represents the goodness of humans. In the other hand, the snakes represent the wicked part of life. The mongoose couldn’t be good if there isn’t evil to fight with: And the snakes couldn’t be evil if there aren’t good animals to compare them with.

When we had already leave

Roses are red
violets are blue
flowers fall from trees
and stay in the truf.

The green shrubbery
and the black oil
the stalks glancing
the life in the trees coils

Existance hesitates
wind vouches
that nature upbraids
it doesn't look good

is bewitching what they do, what they kill for
is mere trifle.
Briskly killing love
an acquaintance enemy

hate is their supper
they destroy heaven's bequeathed
humans are conceited and greedy.

they'll only see when we are all dead
that they can't drink
nor eat money, only then
when had already leave.

Slave

SLAVE

Being a slave means not being the owner of yourself, this tale by Ambrose Bierce called Oil of dog talks about a man called Boffer Bings, which was born in a different family, his dad was a manufacturer of dog-oil, and his mom had a studio in which she disposed of unwelcomed babies. Since boyhood Boffer was trained in the family businesses, something that have repercussions in his life. Knowing that is doing something wrong he was very carefully with cops, and law in general. This fear is an important part of the text, this fear mixed together both of Boffer’s parents jobs. Boffer threw a baby’s corpse in the cauldron when the dead dogs were burning something that end up creating a new and better oil something his dad wanted a lot ago, what a big causality.

Causalities had been the creators of many inventions and advances, advances which may be a blessing or a misfortune, that only depends of the way the man uses it. The problem is that the man kind isn’t prepare for such big things because apparently their greed is bigger than their self, bigger that their moral. When the man acts based on its greed the uses given to the advances are the wrong ones, a mistake that shall have big consequences for the man and everyone who surrounds him.

The greed is one of the oldest impulses of mankind, that´s why the human history is plagued of injustice, death and misfortunes. Since the beginning until the end you may see how the greed creates inhumanity. It’s incredible how greed blinds people and make them destroy its environment. And knowing that a man’s only purpose is to finish with its people for own benefit is the bigger act of inhumanity, act that have been main character of human history. For example, currently scientific advances are used against enemies. Life had become a game in which instead of saving people the science is used to destroy them, the one who destroys its enemy first is the winner, something people forgot is that in this game there’s not a winner, because at the end everyone loses something.

The beginning of the game.

“She removed not only superfluous and unwelcome babes to order, but went out into the highways and byways, gathering in children of a larger growth, and even such adults as she could entice to the oilery.”

-Oil of Dog, Ambrose Bierce.

The game

The conversion of their neighbors into dog-oil became, in short, the one passion of their lives—an absorbing and overwhelming greed took possession of their souls and served them in place of a hope in Heaven—by which, also, they were inspired.”

Match point

“So enterprising had they now become that a public meeting was held and resolutions passed severely censuring them”

Greed does not have a nationality or prefer a specific country, because country limits are just imaginary lines created by the man, the greed is in everybody everywhere, the only difference is made when you decide if you want or not to live based on greed. In Colombia the greed is found in the politic area, politicians work for own benefit instead of working for the people which is what they are supposed to do, a big example f greed.

As a conclusion I may say that is true that when people act based on greed they end up not only affecting others but also affecting their-self guarding the tradition of mankind this way a change is not going to happen.

Sara Triana/Bogotá D.C/Marzo, 2o16

Oil of dog- Ambrose Bierce.

How the Widow Won the Deacon?

by William J. Lampton 

This tale may be found in many online stores and as it is short in many books with many other tales, but I chose to show a version you can find in “amazon” in a book called The Best American Humorous Short Stories.

(Is hard to find this tale by its own that’s why I decide to talk about a complete book with some other tales.)

The book seller described the book in general as a collection of good short stories, which is not wrong if all the stories are like this one, but something of the book which (for me) does not have any relation with the tale is the own title.

The title says the public that ALL of the stories in the book are humorous, not only Humorous but ones of the best of all, but for me the text was not Humorous.

The writer made this book in base of his own humour, which is not wrong, but he has to keep in mind that not everybody has the same humour, and as I can see his sense of humour is king of weird, but is a sense of humour the seller defends.

In my opinion if I buy this book and read this story I will be mad, because (again) if all the stories are like this one I’ll probably had lost my money.

Yes, the text is very good, a very good short story, as the seller describes it, but is not humorous, not as humorous as the seller describes it. This may put the seller in trouble (if I would buy it, he would be in trouble).  

The Hanging Stranger-philip-k-dick

The Hanging Stranger-philip-k-dick

Things have changed, the ones that are supposed to protect us are our daily enemies, our friends become strangers and the world seem to be upside down making us think that we’re the crazy ones, this the reality of Colombian people, instead of trusting in the police we run from it. And is right there when people think: am I their enemy or they are mine? There’s not an answer, yet.

The relation I make between the tale and Colombia’s lifestyle, I that people doesn’t care about important things and they make like nothing is happening and when someone cares the public media and the police make everything to feed people’s ignorance.

That means that nowadays we can trust in nobody, not even in which we’re supposed to trust.

the child's story-Charles Dickens

THE CHILD’S STORY- CHARLES DICKENS

Life is way too long at the beginning and way too short when the end is close, the are many aspects in the life that are invaluable which doesn’t receive the attention they deserve. Life is like a roller coaster trip some people enjoy it, some people fear it, other just live it.

The text is child’s story about when he created something to remember, his life, showing that life seem to be longer than it is and life is about appreciate every single moment and that from the past you just need to remember the best.

The text was as complete as it could be.

This text is powerful because even after reading it you keep thinking about it.

The end of the story is meaningful, is strong and make people see the value of the life, and that at the end you’ll realize how short the trip was.

The fish- Anton Chekhov

The fish- Anton Chekhov

Literature is not only  influence by culture but it also works as a cultural and communicative system, in which cultural phenomena is studied and analysed.

In the tale as soon as the men achieved his goal of caching the fish, the started thinking about its price in the market. In the tale when Andrey accepted to help he did it with ambitious thoughts.

The wish of money and the ambition are things that are in the society independently the cultural background. This may be evidence in this tale, in which the principal idea wasn’t save the fish, was to save the fish and sell it to get some money.

Money makes people forget about their moral, values and even culture, maybe is part of this culture to save animals, but sometimes this purpose is forgotten.

In my point of view this isn’t about the connection between culture and the tale, is about the disconnection between culture and the tale.

A Defenceless Creature

A Defenceless Creature
by Anton Chekhov

The “Defenceless creature” by Anton Chekhov is a primary literature, because it has a high level of detail and may be published in little time.

Our story takes places in a bank in a normal working day, the story is about two workers (kistunov, and Alexey) and an old lady who is asking for  money (Madame Shtchukin). The deal is that Madame Shtchukin is asking to kistunov (which is not his job to give her that money) for the money of her husband who is ill, clarifying that she is just a defenceless creature, an ill woman, and a persistent person, who stays hours waiting and insists saying she need the money, something way too evident for kistunov, who end up paying the money the woman was asking and maybe does not deserve.