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Analysis "The Day I Got Lost"

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Class Analysis about "When I Got Lost"  On October the 14 th in the class period we discussed and analyzed the reading by groups...and this are the results... Marian, Jeyson y Mayra shared with us an experience lived by Marian and how she felt lost because she can't remember what happened in her life in two different times. Asking a doctor, he told t her that she is living under a lot of stress and that she is so anxious. Now, she can identifies the symptoms and relax, breath and go on, but a little bit more calm down. Jéssica, Silvia, Patty y Guillermo shared with us the anecdote when Guillermo's mother (Patty), left him in a building and Patty was going like 3 kilometers far away from him. He called her and she came back to pick him. Kinberly, Leslie y Alexandra told us that Leslie has a neighbor that forgets everything, so she views the story from another point of view, they live that situation so close.

The Necklace

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                                  Guy de Maupassant   French writer Guy de Maupassant wrote short stories like "The Necklace" and "Bel Amim", but he also wrote poetry, novels, and newspaper articles. He was an author of the naturalist and realist schools of writing and is best known for his short stories, which are considered highly influential on much of modern literature. It's believed de Maupassant was probably born at the Château de Miromesniel, Dieppe on August 5, 1850. His paternal ancestors were noble, and his maternal grandfather, Paul Le Poittevin, was the artist Gustave Flaubert's godfather. His parents separated when he was 11 years old after his mother, Laure Le Poittevin, left his father Gustave de Maupassant. She took custody of Guy and his younger brother, and it was her influence that led her sons to develop an appreciation for literature. But it was her friend Flaubert who opened doors for the budding young writer. Flaubert

The Washwoman

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This short story was written by  Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1904-1991, Jewish-American novelist and short-story author in the Yiddish language. Son of a provincial Hasidic rabbi, he moved to Warsaw in the early 1920s and became associated with the city’s Yiddish literati. He lived since very little in a humble side of Warsaw, very important cultural center and Jewish spirituality. He related a lot of his experiences of his childhood in different books. During the WWI, his family experimented the beginning of economic difficulties, he, his mother and brother went to Bilgoray, at the Austrian border. In that place started studying the Talmud and after a few years, he started interesting for readings very far from the Orthodox Judaism. He decided to write in Yiddish because he said that  “ It is the language that has more words for a poor ” . His first novel was published in 1935, the same year he went to the United States. He was leading figure in the Yiddish literary movem

The Day I Got Lost

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Isaac Bashevis Singer   Novelist , Short Story writer. Was born on July 14, 1904, in Radzymin in Poland. Born to a family of religious Jews, he was raised in an overcrowded, poor Jewish quarter of Warsaw. His older brother became a novelist and his sister became a novelist. He was a voracious reader. He starts working in journalism, one year after, he emigrated from Poland to the United States, his old brother awaited him, and he took a job in New York, writing for  The Jewish Daily Forward. In 1925, he debuted as a fiction writer with the short story  "In Old Age".  And in 1935 his first novel,  "Satan in Goray" , was published. In 1978, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died on July 24, 1991, in Surfside, Florida. Isaac Bashevis Singer a Life in America The short story  "The Day I Got Lost" , was published in 1973 in the United States, it was part of the book "The Puffin Annual" , then in 1984 was repri