A FAMILY by Guy de Maupassant
SYNOPSIS
A family is about friendship and life. a friendship between Simon and George. friend who go through all the things together. for years, they had scarcely been separated. suddenly, Simon got married with a girl from the provinces.
After separated, they meet again. but yet, George have a bit shocked when looked at Simon. He is different too much! and another suprise is when he got to knowing that Simon have five children.
When George go to Simon's house and meet his family, he meet Madam Radevir's grandfather to. Too old, and paralyzed man! Monsieur. he can even speak. he only know to muttered. here, the crisis began. George shock when Simon, his best friend treat monsieur like nothing! Simon trying to control everything about monsieur's nutrition. monsieur is eighty-seven.
Simon is too over when comes about monsieur's nutrition. Yes, its about monsieur good but its too much. Monsieur's family controlling what he ate and how much he ate due to his health. family members would tease him telling him he couldn't have any food. when he become upset the children would laugh out loud at him.
While at the dinner table, they treat monsieur like children who know nothing. during the whole meal, they were taken up solely with him. he devoured the dishes on the table with his eyes, and tried to seize them and pull them over to him with his trembling hands. When monsieur ate more, Simon will get anger. And they pretended not to give him any. Then, monsieur began to cry. George was seized with pity for this saddening and ridiculous Tantalus. so they deprived him of his health. George sad because they treat he old man like that. There are many moral value we can got from this story.
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