JEYSON ALEXANDER LINARES CASTILLO

BIOGRAPHY GUY DE MAUPASSANT Henri Ren Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular French author who wrote under his name Guy de Maupassant. He is considered one of the fathers of the modern short story as well as one of its finest practitioners. His prolific and deeply admired body of work influenced a great number of writers including William Somerset Maugham, O. Henry, Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin and Henry James. He was a popular writer during his lifetime and had the good fortune to see that his stories were widely read. As a young man he fought in the Franco-Prussian War. He drew heavily on that experience and that war provides the setting for many of his stories which often depict the tragedy and suffering of innocent civilians caught in war's path. He also found inspiration in the not-so-admirable behavior of the bourgeoisie, and made them targets of his biting pessimism and skewering pen. His most famous work for English readers is probably The Necklace. If you are un...

GROUP # 1 I liked this group because they did a deep analysis of the story thinking about the main character, and how the story and the author are related with him.  GROUP # 3 I liked how this group analized the story. They related the story to different situations. I liked when they told us some experiences.  GROUP # 3 I really liked the way this group worked on the analysis. They did the analysis thinking about real situations that are related to the story and with the personality of the main character. I really liked when Patty told us how she forgot her son Guillermo.  GROUP # 4 This group was great! I like how they related the story with the movie 'Finding Nemo & Dory'. It is so interesting.

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THE WASHWOMAN by Isaac Bashevis Singer Biography AUTHOR'S BIOGRAPHY Born: July 14, 1904 Radzymin, Poland Died: July 24, 1991 Miami, Florida  Isaac Bashevis Singer, a Polish-American author, was admired for his recreation of the forgotten world of nineteenth-century Poland and his depiction of a timeless Jewish ghetto (a city neighborhood where a minority group lives). Early life Isaac Bashevis Singer was born on July 14, 1904, in Radzymin, Poland. His family moved to Warsaw, Poland, when he was four years old. Both of his grandfathers were rabbis (Jewish spiritual leaders), and Singer was also groomed for Hasidism, a strict spiritual practice, and attended a seminary (a school to train rabbis). However, he decided on a writing career. His older brother, Israel Joseph, was a well-known  Yiddish  (a language spoken by Jewish people in eastern Europe) writer. Growing up, Singer was impressed by the Jewish  folk tales  told by his pare...

AUTHOR'S BIOGRAPHY Isaac Bashevis Singer Author(1904–1991) Nobel Prize–winning novelist and short-story writer Isaac Bashevis Singer penned the novel The Family Moskat and the short story "Gimpel The Fool." Isaac Singer was born on July 14, 1904, in Radzymin, Poland. In 1950, he published his first major novel,  The Family Moskat . Afterward, he wrote a string of acclaimed short stories, including "Gimpel The Fool." In the 1960s, he wrote the "The Spinoza of Market Street." In 1978, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He continued writing until shortly before his death, on July 24, 1991, in Surfside, Florida. Born to a family of religious Jews in Radzymin, Poland, on July 14, 1904, Isaac Bashevis Singer was raised in an overcrowded, poor Jewish quarter of Warsaw. Singer's father was a Hasidic rabbi, while his mother came from a long line of Mitnagdic rabbis. His older brother, Israel Joshua (also known as I.J.), grew up to bec...