Piqued
Provoked resentful.
When I can't go swimming at West High School is piqued.
Disparaged
Belittled and spoke negatively of.
When I serve detention I feel disparaged.
Aggrieved
Offended.
I am aggrieved when I try to communicate and people don't understand.
Arable
Fit to be farmed ot cultivated.
The land in Lake Tahoe is arable.
Haggled
Argued about a price.
I am buying a nail polish and haggled at Ulta.
Prostrate
Lying flat.
I am going to bed and will be prostrate.
What does Pahom want? What conflicts does he have to overcome to get it?
Pahom does want land and he has to overcome people with fines and waves to buy land.
Pahom buys his first forty acres of land from an aristocrat. How does he raise the money?
He had hundred rubles sold a colt one half of their bees and hired out one of their sons as a laborer and took his wages in advance borrowed the rest from a brother-in-law.
After buying his first farm why does Pahom quarrel with the neighboring peasants?
Because the neighboring peasants would only not have trespassed on his cornfields and meadows.
What happens when Pahom attempts to purchase land from the Bashkirs?
He has to walk a great distance trying to get as much land as possible. He collapses and dies.
What is the resolution of the story's conflict?
He believes that owning land will solve all of his problems but it made his problems more difficult.
According to Tolstoy how much land does a man really need?
Six feet from his head to his heels was all he needed.
What is the central idea or theme of this story - foreshadow that is what truth does the story reveal about human life? State the theme in a sentence or two.
The central idea or theme of this story is that Pahom has enough to provide his family but he wants more and he wants to keep getting more. At the end he dies realizing he wouldn't stop wanting more.
Think about the discussion between the two sisters at the beginning of the story. How does their conservation hint at or foreshadow Pahom's end? What other events foreshadow the ending of the story?
The conversation is Pahom believes his trouble is that he hasn't enough land.
Contrast Pahom's attitude toward land with the attitude of the versus of Bashkir chief. What do you think accounts for the difference in their values?
Pahom's attitude towards more land overshadows common sense and chief of the Bashkir fills his commune is important then land.
How does this story function as an allegory? Choose two elements of the story - its characters, its setting or its events - and explain how each one can be read on both literal and symbolic levels.
Loss and gain are brothers twain it often happens that people who are wealthy one day are begging their bread the next.
Pahom's dreams of wealth are mocked in the story's ironic last line. Think of the stark contrast between what he wanted and "all he needed." How does Tolstoy's parable apply to our culture today?
Tolstoy's parable does apply to our culture today by all may be right but tomorrow the evil one may tempt you which means you are happy wiith what you have today but tomorrow you want more.
Did Pahom get what he deserved? Or did he pay too high a price for the "crime" he committed? Explain your responses to Tolstoy's moral.
Yes Pahom did get what he deserved because he continued to want more and more land and he wouldn't stop no matter what than he dies because of it.