JEYSON ALEXANDER LINARES CASTILLO

PRIDE & PREJUDICE BY JANE AUSTEN AUTHOR'S BIOGRAPHY JANE AUSTEN was born at the Rectory in Steventon, a little village in north-east Hampshire, on 16th December 1775. She was the seventh child and second daughter of the rector, the Revd George Austen, and his wife Cassandra Leigh. Of her brothers, two were clergymen, one inherited rich estates in Kent and Hampshire from a distant cousin and the two youngest became Admirals in the Royal Navy; her only sister, like Jane herself, never married. Steventon Rectory was Jane Austen's home for the first 25 years of her life. From here she travelled to Kent to stay with her brother Edward in his mansion at Godmersham Park near Canterbury, and she also had some shorter holidays in Bath, where her aunt and uncle lived. During the 1790s she wrote the first drafts of Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Northanger Abbey; her trips to Kent and Bath gave her the local colour for the settings of these la...

CASK OF AMONTILLADO - EDGAR ALLAN POE AUTHOR'S BIOGRAPHY Edgar Allan Poe  was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.  He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. Poe was born in Boston, the second child of two actors. His father abandoned the family in 1810, and his mother died the following year. Thus orphaned, the child was taken in by John and Frances Allan of R...

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...