A trifle from a real life

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A Russian writer Anton Chekhov wrote the story "A Trifle from Real Life" in second part of 19th century. Story appears in St. Petersburg where two main characters Aliosha and Nikolai Ilitch Belayeff are having a conversation about Aliosha's relationship with his father. Through this conversation the writer is giving us a message about adult/child relationship.

This story happened in capital of imperial Russia and has two main and three minor characters. Aliosha, who is one of them, is an eight-year-old kid. Anton Chekhov presents him as a very smart and intelligent. Aliosha was able to carry conversation with another main character, Nikolai Ilitch Belayeff, through all the time even that he is 32 years old. Nikolai is an Aliosha's mother's lover who is rich and well respected in community. He is a wealthy and influential supporter of local racetracks. Nikolai did not love Aliosha's mother so much. Their rela


Even that Anton Chekhov wrote the story hundred years ago and that since then lot of things changed but still there are some things that did not change, and probably won't ever. Adult/child relationship is one of them. Now and then most of adults do not realize that a kid is a person who has feelings that could be hurt as much as adult's feelings if not even more. Feelings and thoughts in childhood are things that shape and give the main frame of the life to any kid. If people are not careful with it they could be responsible for consequences that could appear later in life of young individual.

tionship for him was long and boring. He never took notice before about Aliosha while he was visiting Aliosha's mother, which showed to me that he is snobby. He would never bring himself at lower level and talk to somebody who is not rich as he is or not even more. This time he broke that unwritten snobby rule but just because he was bored wa

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

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