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Title: OLD GORIOT
Author: Honore de Balzac
Setting: This story happened in the 19th century in France.That was a period when
money determined everything.The story has a main character named Father Gniat.It
took Mrs.Vauqnev's department and Beausaant's salon as a stage.By describing a
retired busine man called ''Father Goriot'' who used to sell Italian paste and starch
sad life.His two daughter both entered the upper society but they continued squeezing
Their father's money until he died with nothing to give them.And by describing a
declining aristocracy teenager called Eapenc de Railignav seeked refuge with his
cousin Beausaant and tried to climbed to the upper society.The story truly delineated
the society in the early years of the France Restoration reappear the ages appearance
of money dominate everything.Characters:
1.Father Gniat: The main character of the story.He was a retired busine man sold
Italian paste and starch meanwhile he was a father of two daughters.He loved his
daughters very much but had a sad life because neither of his daughters was filial to
him.2.Eapenc de Railignav: A declining aristocracy teenager climbed to the upper society
by his cousin's help because the Rigid Caste system of 19th France compelled him to
do so.He was a university student who studied the law and he had his own dream but
broken by his strong money and status desire.He witneed the tragic fate of Old
Goriot and woke up to reality at last.3.Vantuiun: An ambitious man who named himself a busine man but an escaped
criminal in reality.He despised the law and mediocre people and he was good at
instructing teenagers and looked upon women differently.He thought the World was
ugly, the society was decayed, our living environment was hateful so revolt was
reasonable.4.Delphine de Navingen: The younger daughter of Father Gniat.She married a banker
who did not give her money to donate and even though she entered the upper society
because her husband ,she lived very unhappy.She continued exploiting money from
her father and fell love with Eapenc de Railignav.5.Anastasie Restaud: The older daughter of Father Gniat.She entered the upper
society by marrying a count.She seldom even never visited her father after she
married.Her father gave her a lot of money but she only came back once to ask for
money for a dance party when her husband went bankrupt.6.Beausaant: Eapenc de Railignav's shirttail cousin introduced by Eapenc de
Railignav's aunt.She introduced him to the upper society and gave him the first leon
of the nobles' life and told him how to lead a noble life.She told Eapenc de Railignav
to rely on a woman and this lead him to seduce Delphine de Navingen.7.Vnuqnev: The landlady of the department which Father Gniat, Vantuiun and
Eapenc de Railignav lived in.She was very high-hat and treated his renter well if he was rich, badly if he was poor.She bullied Father Gaint because he became poorer and poorer.Theme:
In this story the author Honore de Balzac tried to expose hideous social reality in the 19th century.No one would respect you if you did not have money or statue.So this phenomenon caused many poor students like Eapenc de Railignav betray his dream and squash in the upper society by using various means.At that time, money is the capitalist new signs of the times, and father is just something that when the patriarchal clan system residual feelings.The novel takes place during the Bourbon Restoration, which brought about profound changes in French society;the struggle of individuals to secure upper-cla status is ubiquitous in the story.The story has a sad keynote with a Father Gniat's miserable edding.The father gave all the money he earned to his two daughters but they did not love him and never took care of him even visited him.He even sold his silver dinnerware and the Relics of his dead wife in order to pay the debts for her daughters.At last, he wanted to sell his blood, his life, server in the army for other people even to helped others to kill people in order to get money for his daughter.When he was dying, neither of his daughter came to see him or took charge of his funeral.This story exposed the willow of inhumanity, condemned children whoSqueezed parents' wealth and did not fulfil their supporting duty.Meanwhile, it announced fathers' exceive love.This kind of love may cause their children lose their filial piety.Plot:
1.The novel opens with an extended description of the Maison Vauquer, a boarding house standing in the end of the Paris' rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève covered with vines, owned by the widow Madame Vauquer.The residents include the law student Eugène de Rastignac, a mysterious agitator named Vantuuiun, and an elderly retired vermicelli-maker named himself Father Goriot.The old man is ridiculed frequently by the other boarders, who soon learn that he has bankrupted himself to support his two well-married daughters.At first he paid twelve hundred francs a year.It was a great amount of money.Goriot had brought with him a considerable wardrobe, the gorgeous outfit of a retired tradesman who denies himself nothing.But later, he reduced his charter hire because his daughters often came to him for money.He moved to a bad room in the flat and say goodbye to his comfortable time.2.Eapenc de Railignav, who moved to Paris from the south of France, becomes attracted to the upper cla.He has difficulty fitting in, but is tutored by his cousin, Madame Beausaant, in the ways of high society.Railignav endears himself to one of Goriot's daughters, Delphine, after extracting money from his own already-poor family.Vautrin, meanwhile, tries to convince Railignav to pursue an unmarried woman named Victorine, whose family fortune is blocked only by her brother.He offers to clear the way for Rastignac by having the brother killed in a duel.Railignav
refuses to go along with the plot, balking at the idea of having someone killed to acquire their wealth, but he takes note of Vauntuiun's machinations.This is a leon in the harsh realities of high society.Before long, the boarders learn that police are seeking Vauntuiun, revealed to be a master criminal nicknamed Trompe-la-Mort.Vauntuiun arranges for a friend to killVauntuiun's brother, in the meantime, and is captured by the police.3.Introduced by his aunt cousin Beausaant.There he was greeted by Delphine and introduced to high society people, who invite him to their houses.He then realizes that he is being accepted in Parisian aristocracy and envied by many on account of his intimate acquaintance with Beausaant.Upon arriving at the boardinghouse, Railignav goes up to see Old Goriot and reports on his evening, adding that he prefers Delphine because she seems fonder of her father.The two men then engage in a long conversation in which Goriot expounds on paternal love, saying, “since I have been a father, I have come to understand God.” The old man added that he would be so pleased if Railignav and Delphine were to love each other.Railignav, very touched by Goriot's concern and dismayed at Delphine's thoughtlene, bid the old man good night.4.At the Nucingens', Railignav fiound Delphine completely downcast and making vain efforts to hide it.Taken a little aback by her attitude, Railignav urged Delphine to tell him what the matter was.Instead of answering his questions since he kept on offering his help, she took him to a gambling place, gave him a hundred francs, and asked him to bet them and try to win six thousand.A little uneasy at first, for he had never been in a gambling place and does not know what to do, Railignav became lucky and ends up winning seven thousand.Delphine, overjoyed, undertook to tell him why she needed the money so badly.Married to a man whom she did not really love, she pursued a separate life, using her savings and money she had borrowed from her father.Then she met Marsay and borrowed money from him, but when Marsay proved unfaithful, she wanted to return it.Her husband refused to help her unle she would be a wife to him.Now she could free herself from Marsay and gave him his money back, thanks to Railignav's winnings.5.A carriage stopped in the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve, Anastasie came here to visit his father.She cried to tell her father and sister that she was in a difficult.Her husband owe a hundred thousand francs to the others.Even her husband sold her demand their money was still not enough.Old Goriot cried and said he would sell his blood, his life, server in the army for other people even to helped others to kill people in order to get money for his daughter.The next day, he sold and his silver dinnerware and the Relics of his dead wife.He was very emotional and had the disease ofcerebral hemorrhage.He was too sick to get up from bed.Both of his daughters came to attend a big party in Beausaant's house with Father Goriot's money.They both forgot their father when they enjoyed their time with beautiful dre.6.In the afternoon of the same day, Bianchon asks Railignav to look after Goriot.The old man's condition had grown worse, and he did not think he would live long, but he still wanted to fight the disease.Of course, they would need some money.The old
man does not have a penny left and Rastignac only twenty francs.The young medical student decided to get the needed medicine on credit at the dispensary where he worked.In the meantime, Railignav was to apply hot mustard poultices on the old man's feet and legs.Neither Delphine nor Anastasie would visit Goriot as he lies on his deathbed, and before dying he raged about their disrespect toward him.His funeral was attended only by Railignav, a servant named Christophe, and two paid mourners.Goriot's daughters, rather than being present at the funeral, send their empty coaches, each bearing their families' respective coat of arms.Evaluation of the Book :
As far as I am concerned, this book is a very good book which gives us valuable information about the society condition of the 19th century in France.It exposed the disappearance of the emotion because the social idea.The human's conscience died out.I do not like sad story, the story has a very miserable edding.I firmly believed that this really happened at that period.Even in this times, these kind of cothurnus happens.I think, Old Goriot's daughters will finally regret.When they become mothers, they will understand their father, but it is too late.This book intends to tell us we it is our responsibility to show our love and respect to our parents.They give us life, do not wait until it is too late to show our filial piety.This is an important leon we should pay great attention to.Word Journal :
(1)avail oneself of: to make use of something, especially an opportunity or offer.Sentence: Guests are encouraged to avail themselves of the full range of hotel facilities.(2)blandishment: pleasant things that you say to somebody or do for them to try to persuade them to do something.Sentence: More blandishments to the profeor are no use to your study, you should try your best to learn.(3)conspicuous: easy to see or notice;likely to attract attention.Sentence: Mary's red hair always made her conspicuous at school.(4)insolent: Extremely rude and showing a lack of respect.Sentence: She lost her job because she was insolent to her bo.(5)remonstrate: to protest or complain about somebody or something.Sentence: They remonstrated with the official about the decision.(6)audacity: brave but rude or shocking behaviour.Sentence: He had the audacity to say I was too fat.(7)plunder: to steal things from a place, especially using force during a time of war.Sentence: The troops croed the country, plundering and looting as they went.(8)restoration: the work of repairing and cleaning an old building, a painting, etc.So that its condition is as good as it originally was.Sentence: The palace is closed for restoration.(9)drudgery: hard boring work.The worker was too tired from long time's drudgery.(10)paralyse:to stop something from functioning normally.Sentence: The airport is still paralyse by the strike.
