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DR.HEIDEGGER`S EXPERIMENT

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Thursday, July 29, 2010






Dr. HEIDEGGER`S EXPERIMENT






BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE


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Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer.
Nathaniel Hathorne was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and Elizabeth Clarke Manning Hathorne. He later changed his name to "Hawthorne", adding a "w" to dissociate from relatives including John Hathorne, a judge during the Salem Witch Trials. Hawthorne attended Bowdoin College
Hawthorne's works belong to romanticism or, more specifically, dark romanticism, cautionary tales that suggest that guilt, sin, and evil are the most inherent natural qualities of humanity. Many of his works are inspired by Puritan New England,
combining historical romance loaded with symbolism and deep psychological themes, bordering on surrealism. His depictions of the past are a version of historical fiction used only as a vehicle to express common themes of ancestral sin, guilt and retribution. His later writings also reflect his negative view of the Transcendentalism movement.
Hawthorne was predominantly a short story writer in his early career.


ANALISIS

PLOT

Conflict: All the old friends of Dr. Hedegger were unhappy, and complained about their lives, because they wanted to be young, and be able to change many things happened.

Rising Actions:

1 The old friends of Dr Heidegger arrived to his house.
2 Dr. Heidegger asked them to join him in one experiment, and he explained them about the water and the rose.
3 They saw the old rose bloom again, and they accepted to get into the experiment.
4 They drank that water until be young again. Everything in their outside look was different, but inside they were the same person, with all the old thoughts, mistakes, and manners that they had before.

Climax:
They started to do all that they use to do as before, and then they fought for the love of Mrs Widow Wycherly. So they turn Dr. Heideggers laboratory up side down until knocked over the table where the rose and the water were. The water was spilled and the rose fell down and it started to shrivel up again.

Resolution:
They saw what happened with the rose and they began to feel the same old person than before, and then they asked for more water, but Dr. Heidegger did not have more. So, they started to make plans to go and find the fountain of youth without conscience of their actions.

CHARACTERIZATION

Dr. Heidegger: He is a strange old man, good reader, respectful, scientist, intelligent, kind; loyal that lives in a big, old and dusty house. He is a man of one wife. (Flat)

Mr. Medbourne: A man that use to be rich, but he did a very bad business deals, and lost all his fortune. He is a poor beggar, sad, and unsuccessful. (Flat)

Mr. Gascon: He is a liar, dishonest, thief, betrayer and cheater. He was a famous politician. He lives in guilt, embarrassment and shame about his fault. (Flat)

Colonel Killigrew: He is a sick person, vicious, disorganize, alcoholic and glutton. He was a great soldier, but he became a vicious man. (Flat)

Widow Wycherly: She is a narcissistic, vain, flashy, superficial and materialistic person. She only cares about herself. He lives sad and frustrated because she is not young anymore. (Flat)

SETTING

Time: Between 30`s and 60`s.
Place: The old house of Dr Heidegger.

IMAGERY

Scenarios: In a city of US in an old mansion. Dr Heidegger’s house.

Other Elements:

Withered Rose: Inferred an old love, aging, death. Predicts what is going to happen with the characters because they will not change ever. Actually they will die.

Dust and spider webs: Reflex aging, decay, abandon, surrender. Describe the real condition of the characters.

Water: elixir of life that comes from the fountain of youth. It mean eternity, beauty and force. Maybe it was just alcohol or something that caused them some kind of hallucinations.

THEME

Everlasting – Youth (Dream of all human being). Everyone wants to live forever young, without diseases, responsibilities, problems with beauty, power, money and a all life ahead to enjoy forever without chains or consequences for any action.


MOOD

Romanticism: It’s because the past time were better than the present. (The characters yearn lo live in the past, things that already happened and never will live again)

IRONY

It is like a moral-irony because; this story reflex’s that people never change to be better even if they receive a second chance. When people are made on one way nothing can change the manners, thoughts or actions of someone, and that is a truth than none can turn round.

SUMMARY

The story is about a scientist named Dr. Heidegger. He invited some friends to make an experiment. All his friends are very old people, and all of them made a lot of mistakes when they were young. So, Dr. Heidegger asked them to help in the experiment, and he showed them a withered rose. Then he put the rose some kind of liquid that looked as water and the rose bloom up again. Professedly that water came from the fountain of youth. The old people drank the water and all of them rejuvenated, but at the time they felt very well and strong they began to behave at the same way than before with the same bad things that made their lives miserable. They began to fight and threw down the table where the rose and the water were. The four friends saw how the rose shrivels up again, and they looked at each other feeling the same way as an old person, and then they asked for more water, but Dr. Heidegger did not have more. So, they started to make plans to go and find the fountain of youth in Florida without conscience of their actions.

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Author

Manuela Williams Crosno (1905-1977) lived most of her life in Nuevo Mexico. She was a writer, poet and artist. She loved New Mexico that’s why in many of her stories she used as a setting places as Santa Fe Albuquerque and Taos.

Moral Teaching

Three Hundred Pesos give us an important lesson about be good with all people around us specially our family, Also, to get our achievements without pass through others needs, because our heart will get dry , if we do things in that way, and usually people like that never get what the want , because they never trusted in nobody. We have to learn and be kind, humble and helpful. So, if we do good things to others, maybe one time someone will help us too. Finally if the human beings learn how to be good and helpful this world will become a better place to live.


Reader Personal Opinion


I really enjoyed this short story because is about a very life-like story. Nowadays people like Anastacio are very common, but also are people like Berta or Emilio. This story is a good way to describe the consequences of been stingy and bad person. Also it gives another way to live with peace, love and kindness, and that is better than money and lonely.


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THEEE HUNDRED PESOS

Plot

Conflict: Anastacio wants be a storekeeper, but to get this achievement he doesn’t help anybody, just for save money.

Rising Actions:
1. Emilio ask his brother Anastacio for a peso to help his sick boy, but Anastacio didn’t help him.
2. A hailstorm ruined all the crops of the town.
3. Berta asks Anastacio to borrow her some money to fix the roof of her house, and to stay in his home her and her husband for a while.
4. A folk of sheep destroyed all the Anastacio’s corn field.
5. Anastacio planted pinto beans, and when he harvested it, he wanted to sell them in fifty peso to finally get the rest of the money to his loved store.

Climax: On the way to the town, he had an accident with a traveler, in which he lost all the pinto beans; the traveler given him fifty pesos as a pay for the lost load, but a few minutes late Anastacio died.

Conclution: Anastacio siblings found his body and the three hundred pesos inside his shirt, and they made him a very nice funeral with that money.


Characters

Anastacio: He is Emilio and Berta’s brother. He dream to be a storekeeper and get his own store, but he is very stingy, hostile, independent, selfish and miserable with everyone around him, and he never help anybody, that is why everything that he did go from bad to worse.

Emilio: He is a poor farmer who has a family. He is a good person, hard worker, unselfish, gentle, very helpful and humble. He had a sick son.

Berta: She is Emilio’s sister. She is married, but doesn’t have children. Berta is poor like his brothers, and has a peaceful personality; also she is very kind, gentle, generous and helps Emilio who had sick his son Pedro.




Story Summary

In a poor town lived three siblings Anastacio, Berta and Emilio. Berta and Emilio were married, but Anastacio did not. Anastacio dreamed to be a storekeeper, but he needed to save three hundred pesos. Then for many years he tried to do it, but during that time he became a very stingy and miserable person. One time his brother Emilio came to ask him for a peso to help his sick son, but he didn’t help him. After that Anastacio saw a black bird, and that night was a hailstorm, and it destroyed all the crops of the territory. Another day his sister Berta asked him for some money and to stay in his house for a while, because a big three destroyed the roof of her house, but like with Emilio’s son, he said no. When she was leaving his house, he saw her shadow as a huge bird, and he had bad feelings about it. So, that same night his field was ruined by a flock of sheep, and he blame his relatives for all the bad things happened. Then he planted a crop of pinto beans to sell them in fifty pesos that was all he needs to finally get the three hundred pesos to own his store. In fall, he harvested and prepared the pinto beans to go and sell then in the town, but he wasn’t happy because he began to think about all the care a store requires, and now all his relative would want to come and take his store like their own. When Anastacio was on the way to sell his pinto beans he got an accident with a traveler, and he had a strong hit in his chest and head. Also he lost all the load of pinto beans. Then the traveler paid him fifty pesos for destroy the pinto beans, but he was so injure and he died some minutes later. So he got the three hundred pesos, but never got his loved store. Then Emilio and Berta found their brother’s horses, and near of them was the death body of Anastacio. After that they found the money into his shirt, and they made a beauty funeral for him with those three hundred pesos.

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