#Goosberries

 Rating: 6/10


Selfish VS Altruistic

This short story talks about altruism (Ivan) VS selfishness (Ivan's brother Nikolai). I felt that the author placed the altruistic character in the story to contrast and strongly criticize Nikolai. But, was Nikolai selfish from the start? At the first time, Nikolai had one great goal, being a landowner and growing gooseberries. Since he only focused on achieving his goal, he became selfish. This story tells that being blind with a strong desire is dangerous. I liked the message of the story (more than the lady with a dog). But the story is still vague and hard to understand clearly. Especially why author put a description that Aliokhin hadn’t take a shower for a long time that the water turned brown? Therefore, I rated 6.5 out of 10.

(If teacher sees this blog, please make a comment why about my question toward Aliokhin)

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