Master and Man is a great book it’s only 48 pages long. The descriptions in this story are seriously interesting, and the writing style is quite formal, which adds a unique touch to it.
The characters, Nikita and Vasili don’t get along. The difference between Nikita and Vasili is that Nikita is a very selfless person and Vasili is a very selfish person. Nikita doesn’t care about how much money he makes, instead he cares about his family’s well-being. Vasili on the other hand is the opposite and only cares about money and will get do anything to get it. He also is very rude to his wife and yells at her a lot.
As well I feel like I resemble to Nikita because we both care about family and would do anything to help our family no matter what the cost is.
Towards the end of the book, Vasili decides to leave Nikita in the snow and take the horse to continue the path, when Vasili ends up doing a circle by accident, he ends up finding Nikita buried in the snow. He decided to dig up Nikita and to help him because Vasili does not want to get blamed for Nikitas’s death because he does not want to ruin his reputation. All of the sudden when Vasili is warming up Nikita with his big fur coat, he decides he wants to be a better person and change, so he starts to pray to God to forgive all his sins.
In Master and Man Both Nikita and Vasili prayed to God when they were about to die, which makes you wonder about the title. Is it about Vasili as the master and Nikita as the Man, or is it about God and Nikita or Vasili, or maybe both of them.
Something that I am disappointed with is that the book ends with Vasili dying. It would’ve been interesting to see if he really would change.