Personal Response 1

Master and Man

This story makes me think about different points of view in a story and how different people see the world differently like Nikita and Vasili which are two very different characters with different perspectives, thoughts and beliefs which makes us see the story in two different points of view or different ways this story also makes me feel thankful for life and teaches us to appreciate every day and be thankful for what we have, the end of this story made me rethink about who was the master and who was the man in the story at first I thought the master was Vasili and the man Nikita but as the story goes by u start thinking about how the Master is god and the man is Vasili, the end of the story also strikes when Vasili died and Nikita didn’t so we see how Nikita was always grateful and the world paid off his kindness, that doesn’t make Vasilis death right but I think Nikita deserved more to live because he was nice, kind and grateful . I personally liked this story and how it makes us think about death and how we should be kind in life, I think this story is a fable since at the end of a story fables are supposed to teach us a lesson and in this story at the end it teaches us about death and how we should appreciate life since we do not know how long we are going to be here.