The day I got lost

ANALYSIS         Marian Ralón Mayra Guerra Jeyson Linares       Silvia Bonilla Patricia De León Guillermo Guzmán Jessica Del Cid     Alexandra Rustrián Kimberly Monzón Leslie Contreras           Evelyn Girón Jeannette Rodríguez Vivian Obregón On October 14th, we discussed and analyzed in class the story "The Day I Got Lost" by Isaac Bashevis Singer. We worked in groups. This presentation was interesting, because each group had different points of view in some aspects of the same story, but in others we were agree. Some of my classmates shared their own experiences of their life when for one or other reason they forgot something special. Maybe all of us have a little of Shlemiel in ourselves. Summary Theme: The day when professor Shlemiel got lost. Setting: Somewhere in New York City Situation: Professor ...

                                                                                                                      THE NECKLACE                                            Guy de Maupassant   Biography Real name: Henry René Albert Guy de Maupassant (August 5, 1850 Chateau de Miromesnil, France - July 6, 1893 Paris, France) Remembered as a master of the short st...

                                        THE WASHWOMAN                                                   by Isaac  Bashevis Singer               Biography (July 14, 1904 Radzymin, Polonia - July 24, 1991 Miami, Florida) Polish-American author, was admired for his recreation of the forgotten world of nineteenth- century Poland and his depiction of a timeless jewish ghetto. He was born in Poland and his family moved to Warsaw, Poland, when he was four years old. Both of his grandfathers were rabbis, and Singer was also groomed for hasidism, a strict spiritual practice, and attended a seminary.  ...

        THE DAY I GOT LOST Isaac Bashevis Singer Biography   (November 21, 1902 - July 24, 1991) Was born in Poland under military partitions by the Russian Empire.  Was a Polish-born jewish writer. The Polish form of his birth name was Icek Hersz Zynger. He used his mother's first name in an initial literary pswudonym, Izaak Baszewis, which he later expanded.He was a leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement, writing and publishing only in Yiddish.  Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978, also awarded two U:S: National Book Awards, one in Children's Literature for his memjoir A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw (1970) and one in Fiction for his collection A Crown of Feathers and Other stories (1974). Singer's first published story won the literary competition of the literarishe bletter and garnered him a reputation as a promisig talent. A reflection of his formative years in "The Kitc...