'’Gooseberries''
is
one of Chekhov's short story collection that was published in 1898. At glance
Gooseberries tells about the man Ivan Ivanich who spend his holiday with his
two friends while always tells a story about his brother, Nicholai. The brief
story presented below.
Ivan Ivanich, Chimsha-Himalaisky
and Burkin hunting in the countryside. They decided to stop by the home of a
local landowner, Pavel Konstantinovich Alekhin. Alekhin is young, unmarried,
and hard worker. Before dinner, Alekhin and guests bathe in the river; the
guests noticed that the water around them turned brown. someone looked at
Alekhin happily, however, he praised the landowner for his hard work and
energetic interest in everything around him.
After taking a
bath, the men sit down while drinking a cup of tea. Ivan Ivanich told Burkin
and Alekhin a strange story about the life of his brother. Nikolai Ivanich
Chimsha-Himalaisky went to work as a clerk in a large city at the age of
nineteen. The two brothers grew up in the countryside, but their family's land
was sold to pay off debts. Nikolai Ivanich never reconciled himself to life in
the city and made plans to get enough money to buy a small plantation where he
could plant gooseberries, which became a symbol in his mind of friendly life in
the countryside. He spent days dreaming about future plantations: where the main
building would be located, ducks swimming in the pond, how he would eat soup
made from cabbage he had planted himself, and where gooseberry bushes would be
planted. Ivan Ivanich did not sympathize with his brother's dreams, thinking
about the escape from thinking and understanding unnecessarily in the field of
one's actions. Instead of going back to state estates, one must see the world
and become active in society, he thought.
After this,
Ivan Ivanich returned to his story. Nikolai Ivanich became very stingy when he
took a dime to buy his land. In his forties, he married an ugly, old, but
wealthy widow to get more money for his land. This poor woman, who is
accustomed to living well with her ex, thinks, changing money for her finances
and using a Spartan regimen by Nikolai Ivanich. In three years he died; Nikolai
Ivanich bought three hundred acres, and he began to realize his dream. But
there are some weaknesses; no pond or gooseberry bush. There is a river, but it
is polluted by factories on one side and the kiln on the other, making the
water brown. Undaunted, Nikolai Ivanich planted gooseberry bushes and settled
in the life of the guardian country.
Ivan Ivanich
decided to follow his brother to see how he was doing. The plantation is full
of trenches, fences and fences, with total control arrangements. A dog that
looks like a pig's skin in a visitor, takes out a barefoot chef who also looks
like a pig. The cook directed Ivan Ivanich to his brother, who had grown stout
and also tried pigs. The reader realizes that this inheritance was greatly
removed from the dream that Nikolai Ivanich had thought of as a young man.
Ivan Ivanich is
now thinking of Nikolai Ivanich's life as a landowner. Officers who were
previously timid now gave certificates to all types of problems and agreements
to be agreed upon by the farmers, for which he changed considerations with hard
and generous, compiling with hearts into oneself. He appreciated the education
needed for the masses, but they were not ready for it; Physical punishment for
victims, and so on.
At this point,
the story of Nikolai ended the compilation Ivan Ivanich began a monologue that
let go of the way of life led by his brother. The people around him when he
reaches the goal of personal happiness and other people who support others,
such as Nikolai Ivanich about education and physical work, which requires a lot
of attention. from other people. In a burst of enthusiasm, Ivan Ivanich begged
for the Alekhin to never become a landowner like that and not seek his own
happiness.
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