A.Practice Task 1. Form (Recurrences, Repetitions, Relationships, And Motifs) QUESTION ANSWER
1. What is/are the themels of the short story Vanka? Explain your answer.
2. What images, symbols, characters, events, etc. relate to the theme?
3. What is the significance of the title, Vanka to the theme of the story?
4. How would the meaning change if the story is told by Vanka?
1. What is/are the themels of the short story Vanka? Explain your answer.
2. What images, symbols, characters, events, etc. relate to the theme?
3. What is the significance of the title, Vanka to the theme of the story?
4. How would the meaning change if the story is told by Vanka?
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1. In Vanka by Anton Chekhov we have the theme of desperation, innocence, compassion, suffering and commitment.
2. Vanka Symbols, Allegory and Motifs
The Letter Itself (Symbol/Motif) An item central to Vanka's effort to escape from Alyakhin, the letter has a few different symbolic significances.
The Village (Symbol)
Beatings and Torments (Motif)
Christmas (Motif/Allegory)
Vanka's Shift to Moscow (Motif/Allegory)
3. Expresses the theme of loneliness throughout the story. Vanka has recently lost his mother. He lived with his grandfather, Konstantin Makaritch, for a short while after his mother's death. He has fond memories of his grandfather and living with him in the village.
4. Much of Anton Chekhov's "Vanka" is told from Vanka's perspective through his memories and his letter to his grandfather. The third-person narrator, however, does chime in to give readers descriptions of Vanka and his setting that the boy himself may not have provided but that help readers understand the story more thoroughly.
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