MARIA ANTONIETA RALON

THE NECKLACE                      GUY DE MAUPASSANT AUTHOR'S BIOGRAPHY Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant,   French; ( 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a French writer, and a representative of the naturalist school of writers, who depicted human lives and destinies and social forces in disillusioned often pessimistic terms.  His stories are characterized by economy of style and efficiency. The Franco Prussian war broke out soon after his graduation from college in 1870; he enlisted as a volunteer.  In 1871, he left Normandy and moved to Paris.During this time his only recreation and relaxation were boating on the Seine on Sundays and holidays. Gustave Flaubert took him under his protection and acted as a kind of literary guardian to him, guiding his debut in journalism and literature. He wrote and played himself in a comedy in 1875 (with the benediction of Flaubert), "A la...

Analysis "The day I got lost" Group No. 1  I was part of these group, the analysis was not easy to do. It was full of discrepancies. I discover how different can people think about the same topic. It was a rich full experience. The debates were really interesting. In our exposition, we were not completely sure about what we said because there are things that we didn't agree. Group No. 2 This analysis was really interesting. They have a different opinion about the static and the dynamic character of the reading,  but they support the reasons very well. They were ashamed of their posters, but this was not a limitation for them to expose their ideas. Group No. 3 I think they were not sure about what they have to do in the analysis. They were doubted.                                                    ...

The washwoman Isaac Bashevis Singer Author´s biography Personal information Name: Isaac Bashevis Singer Birthdate:  November 21st, 1902                         Radzym, Poland Nationality: American Mother tongue: Yiddish Death cause: Stroke Death date: July 24th, 1991                     Miami, Florida                   United States of America He was groomed for Hasidim, attending a Warsaw seminary, after  completing his seminary studies  he decided on  a writing career.  He worked as a journalist for the Yiddish press in various parts of Poland. Emigrating to the United States in 1935, Singer became a reporter for the Daily Forward in New York City  America's largest Yiddish newspaper. Although he personally adapted to his new country, his early liter...

THE DAY I GO T LOST Isaac Bashevis Singer  AUTHOR´S BIOGRAPHY Was a Polish-born Jewish writer in Yiddish, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978, The Polish name was Icek Hersz Zynger. He used his mother´s first name in an initial literary pseudonym, which he later expanded.  He was born in Loincin village near Warsaw, Poland under military partitions by the Russian Empire. The exact date of his birth is uncertain but is a date that Singer gave to his official biographer Paul Kresh. It is consistent with the historical events he and his brother refer to in their childhood memories.  His father was a Hasidic Rabbi. His siblings became writers as well. The family moved to the court of the rabbi of Radzymin, where his father became head of the Yeshiva. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND         In 1917, because of the hardships or Worl War I, the family split up. Singer moved with ...