Title: “Expensive Lessons”
Characters:
- Vorotov
- Alice Osipovna Enquête
- Pyotr Sergeitch
- Unknown servant of Vorotov
Settings: Office, Theatre
Conflict: Man vs. man conflict
Tone: Formal, Jealousy
Point of view: Third-person narrative
Style: Narrative style with Dialogue
Theme: Lost of track in learning
Plot:
The story
started with a line, "FOR a cultivated man to be ignorant of foreign
language is a great inconvenience." which was actually the realization of
Vorotov after he took his degree.
He then hired
Teacher Alice Osipovna Enquête, a young French lady whom he finds attractive
physically, but she doesn't know how to teach an older man. So, he tried to
fire her, but then he felt pity, so he kept her to be his teacher, which he,
unfortunately, fell in love with her but she doesn't feel the same. Vorotov
didn't learn anything from his teacher, but he let her do her job with him, and
he lost the track of learning, which his main purpose of having a teacher.
Reflection:
To achieve a goal, may it be in an academic or career aspect, we have to prioritize it. We have to learn how to manage our personal desires that it will never be a hindrance to our own growth as someone who is learning, and we have to stand or stick by things that will help us grow or achieve our goal and not to those who will just ruin or mislead us from our plan. We have to prioritize what needs to be prioritized.
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