christmas storms and sunshine

This story take place in the Victorian era  in Britain , the story is about two families the Jenkins and the hodgson , the Jenkins worked in the tory newspaper and the hodgson worked in the examiner , the problem of the story begin when the hodgson move out near the Jenkins , their rivals ; the Jenkins had a cat ,in their house  and the hodgson had a baby in their house , one day Mary hodgson was angry , so she sees the cat of Mrs. Jenkins  and broke her legs, because she was afraid the cat could do something to her son , after that she feels so bad because of that , then Mrs. Jenkins  found out what Mary did so she was angry at her.

One day Mary put her son to sleep and then she start too cook, later her son wakes up , and he was sick with a disease called croup , she was scared because she didn’t know what to do , so she called fanny the nana of the house , and she told her to put him in a bath with boiling water , so she went to the house of the Jenkins  because she didn’t have boiling water in her house and talk with Mrs. Jenkins to help her out , she was preparing some tea , so she had boiled water , but when Mary told her, Mrs. jenking told her that the boiling water was for the tea of her husband , so she would not help her , then she thinks it again , and thought that what she was thinking , the tea of her husband isn’t that important as important of the live of the baby  so she help Mary with the boiling water , and the baby got better, after all of that Mary hodgson ask for forgiveness to Mrs. Jenkins because of what she did to the cat,  and they both set aside their differences and the Jenkins invite the hodgson to a Christmas diner.

The author point of view of this story, the way that she narrates the story, is an omniscient narrator, because she is not a character and also she is not  in the story but she knows everything about the characters.

 The story is related to two values, citizenship and commitment, obviously the value of citizenship is in the story because Mrs. Jenkins and Mary hodgson where neighbors and as neighbors they help each other, as the other, so I think this value is in every person of the world that cares about its neighbors and the world, but also I think Mary in the part that  she beats up the cat , she didn’t have citizenship because she wasn’t thinking of what she was doing ; the value of commitment I think it’s hard to find it but it’s there , in the story , I think this value we can find it when Mary , promises that she would help to heal the cat of Mrs. Jenkins , at the end of the story also we  can find the value of commitment , because of what they do , because , they set aside their differences and make a dinner.

For the conclusion I think this story is really good , how it develops and everything , as every story leaves a message I think this one leaves one too , and it’s that , no matter what are you going thru , or with who are you fighting , you should always set aside your differences and respect the other as how you respect yourself , this story thought me to much about respect.