An essay on "The Strange casee of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde"

In the class of L/L Writing we start sawing Literary Essay, we analysed and learn how to write one. The teachers assing us to creat our Literary Essay about the themes of "The Strange cas of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde",she tell us to do it in pairs, I do it with Matias Castro Cendra.
Here it is our essay:

An essay on "The Strange case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde" 

In the story "The Strange case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde", whose author is Robert Louis Stevenson, a scientific wants to separate the evil part from the good part of a human. When he creates the potion, he drinks it, and he transforms in his evil part "Mr.Hyde" and he become addict. This takes him to his death when he commits suicide because he cause damage to many people. The themes to analyse in this essay are; Violence, The Rational vs. the Irrational and The Duality of Human Nature.

The story has powerful violent scenes. In a way Mr.Hyde it is innocent, because for example the girl and the man that Hyde kills are innocent but also Dr.Jekyll can be guilty because he knows what the potion does  and he drinks it anyway. At night when Mr.Hyde appears he scares people and sometimes he kills them like a frightener. Dr.Jekyll can be also innocent because he gots addict to the potion and when he drinks it, his bad part of his body controls him. For example: " The man trampled calmly over the childs body and left her screaming on the ground".

In the story Dr.Jekyll is irrational when drinks the potion because he was addict, at first when he was rational because he knows that when he drinks the potion he transforms in the bad part of his body, "Mr.Hyde". Mr.Hyde is irrational because he has no control of himself, he kills, murders and scares people when Dr.Jekyll drinks the potion. For example "unspecified, vague, but ominous allusions  to pleasures and dreadful vices somewhere behind the scenes. On the one side there is 'reality'; on the other, 'a nightmare world'."

The theory of a dual human nature explains only after all the events of the story are analyse; including Hyde`s crimes and his ultimate eclipsing of Dr.Jekyll; in the story at the ends appears the discovery that Dr.Jekyll was Mr.Hyde. Jekyll creates the potion to separate his sides, at first his good side dominates him, but when he got addict to the potion his bad part start to dominate him, until he commicts suicide to stop it. For example Utterson says that Hyde is "troglodyte" and he nevers imagines that Hyde and Jekyll are the same man, as he finds it impossible to reconcile their strikngly different behaivor.

In "The Strange case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde" the author writes powerful themes as Violence and The Rational vs. the Irrational. But the theme that means more for me is The Duality of Human Nature, because the story is base in these theme. Reading this makes me realize how different the evil part of someone can be from the good one. This is so different that the crimes of Hyde takes Jekyll to commict suicide.

Historic Win

In the class of l/l writing we started seeing news reoport, and our great teacher assing us to create one:

Historic win

After having played seventeen matches in the personal rugby championship, The pumas reached their first victory against Australia (Wallavis). The match was played on Saturday at Malvinas Argentinas stadium (Mendoza). The pumas won 21-27.

After having been defeated by South Africa at the last minute, Puma players were waiting for this moment to come. They were eager to win. They played an excellent match. Although they  got to mid-time loosing 10-14, they knew how to play the match and, in the end, they won 28-17. Leonardo Senatore, Juan Imhoff and Nicolas Sanchez scored the necessary points to win the match.

The match was played at 7:10 PM last Saturday. The weather was really good, and fortunately it did not rain. The field was in perfect condition and it was a bit wet so that players could have a better game. The audience was very happy and they sang enthusiastically. When the match finished, they were extremely happy and they celebrated a lot.

Argentina´s coach, Daniel Hourcade, said: “ We got our first victory, this is not the end of anything, but the beginning of something big. Congratulation Pumas”.

John´s love

In L/L Writing we were studying Short Stories. After reading and learning about it's characteristics, as a final task, we had to write our own Short story, including in the end the phrase "And that was the last time she/he/I ever so them". Here is my story:

John's Love

John`s love

It was August in 2015; there were John and Tom waiting for their friends Lisa and Ann in the square because it was John`s birthday and they will celebrate it together. First they would meet in the park and then they would go to have dinner to John`s house. John`s dream was to kiss Lisa, but he didn’t know how to tell her because he was afraid of breaking his good relationship. John called Tom for help:

“I love Lisa”, said John.

“I know, will you tell her that you are going to leave to live in Spain?” , asked Tom.

“I will tell her in my house when we go to have dinner”, answered John.

“That`s a good idea”, said Tom.

“Let`s go to speak with Lisa and Ann, there they are coming.”, said John.

“Hi!”said Lisa ”Happy birthday!”, and she embraced them.

“Happy birthday!”, said Ann.

“Thank you Lisa”, said John, “Thank you Ann”.

Then they went to walk to the square and Lisa and Ann gave John a birthday present:

“This is for you John”, said Lisa.

“Oh! Thank you Lisa, thank you Ann” said John.

“Open it, open it, open it!”, said Ann.

John opened the box and inside there was another box, he opened that box and inside there was an enormous chocolate cake that the girls had prepare for him.

“Oh! This is fantastic girls, you are very good friend”, said John.

“Happy birthday”, answered the girls.

“Well, now let`s go to play and have something to eat in my house”, replied John.

“Let`s go”, answered their friends.

John and his friends went to his house and then  his parents were waiting for him with an enormous box.

“Dad, Mom, what`s this?”, asked John.

“This is your birthday present, happy birthday!”, answered John`s parents.

“Oh! Thank you, you are the best parents I could ever have”

John opened the box and inside there was a very nice dog

“Yes, this is the one I wanted, thank you, I love it”, said John

John and his friends stayed playing with his new dog for some time and then they went to cut the big cake of the girls and sing happy birthday song to John.

“Happy birthday”, said Lisa.

“Happy birthday”, said Ann.

“Happy birthday”, said Tom, “but wait, you thought  I would forget your present?”

Tom gave John a little box; John opened the box and inside there was an image of John and Lisa.

“Thank you man”, said John.

“But wait…, why an image of John and me”, asked Lisa.

“Well, that`s for him to remember you in his trip”, answered Tom.

“What trip?”, asked Lisa.

“I`d never told you, I will go to live in Spain tomorrow in the morning” said John.

Lisa held John and gave him a kiss

“Oh! John, I love you, I will miss you a lot, I will never forget you”, said Lisa.

“And I will never forget your kiss”, replied John.

“Now we have to go to sleep”, said his friends.

“I will miss you all, bye”.

That was the last time that John ever saw them.

Cuento Quirogeano

En clase de lengua teníamos que escribir un cuento cumpliendo las 10 reglas quirogianas, teníamos que escribir como máximo 1256 palabras y teníamos que elegir entre tres opciones dadas por la profesora, las opciones eran:
-Las fronteras borrosas entre lo humano y lo natural
-Un caso psicopatológico 
-El triunfo de la naturaleza sobre la ciencia.

Yo hice el trabajo con Agustin Fila, nosotros elegimos la tercera opción, acá abajo les dejamos nuestro cuento:

El torteaban

Esteban del torero vivía con una familia de gauchos que vivían entre los toros.Era un 10 de mayo de 1934 en el Chaco Santafesino y el papá de Esteban, Alfredo, se iba a resolver un asunto de negocios con otro gaucho que quería comprarle un toro y le dejó a su hijo una carta con una indicación:

"Hoy va a venir un vendedor del campo tres arroyos a vendernos toros, pero acordate: No compres toros de mala calidad, que esté en perfectas condiciones y no tenga ningún tipo de enfermedad. Los vendedores vendrán a las 10:30 A.M"

Esteban se despertó a las 9:00 y leyó la carta, comio , se bañó y se cambio como un buen gaucho para la ocasión; botas, medias largas, bombacha de gaucho, una camisa, tirantes, la faja y su boina marrón. Se hicieron las 10:30 y fue hacia la puerta a recibir al vendedor, el vendedor llegó, se presentó formalmente y le mostró los cinco toros que le quería vender.

Había 3 de los 5 toros en perfectas condiciones, ninguna lastimadura o enfermedad, uno de los toros estaba enfermo y a otro le faltaba medio cuerno y media oreja. Esteban rechazo comprar esos dos toros en malas condiciones y solo compro tres de los cinco. Llevó a los tres toros al corral con los otros toros, en el transcurso de Esteban y los toros hacia el corral, al llegar al coral el toro no quería pasar hacia su corral entonces se enfureció, saltó bruscamente y de una cornada le arrancó media oreja a Esteban. El toro huyó y Esteban corrió hacia su rancho y espero a la llegada de su padre.

Cuando Esteban llegó, Esteban se había vendado la oreja y había mucha sangre desparramada por el suelo, el padre de Esteban salió corriendo con Esteban al médico del pueblo. Esteban llevó su media oreja con el pero el médico no pudo hacer nada, solamente le curó la oreja y se la volvió a vendar.

Al día siguiente, Alfredo, le dijo a su hijo que debía cuidar mejor a los toros para que no vuelva a ocurrir un accidente de este nivel, porque en la próxima semana iba a venir un domador del pueblo a llevarse un toro para domarlo.

Era 24 de mayo y Esteban había pasado toda la semana, dia tras noche, cuidando y educando a los toros porque al día siguiente iba a venir el domador. Esa noche Esteban había dormido en el corral, ya era como su casa. La próxima mañana, a las 10:00 llegó el domador, Eduardo. Eduardo fue hacia el corral y Esteban estaba actuando raro, entonces Eduardo le pidió un toro para llevarse y Esteban salió del corral y fue con Eduardo. Eduardo noto que a Esteban le estaban creciendo dos cuernos y pezuñas y empezó a pedir auxilio pero nadie escuchó.

Esteban se preparó en pose de toro para atacar a Eduardo y le salto en la rodilla. eduardo no tuvo otra alternativa que atacar pero cuando se dio vuelta Esteban se había convertido completamente en toro y se preparó para pegarle y lo mató.

Eduardo estaba desparramado en el piso rodeado por un charco de sangre, tenía la piel fría y amarilla, el hueso se le escapaba de la rodilla y tenía muchos golpes y rasguños. Estaba cada vez más flaco mientras iba perdiendo sangre, le salía sangre de la rodilla y de la boca. También tenía medio cuerno clavado en la espalda pero eso le tapaba la salida de sangre.

A la media hora Alfredo salió del rancho y vio que Eduardo estaba muerto y Esteban no estaba ni en los campos, pero noto que habia un toro fuera del corral y no le parecía conocido. Alfredo lo observo bien y se dio cuenta de que le faltaba media oreja y medio cuerno y se acordó de que Esteban había perdido media oreja.

Alfredo no sabia que hacer con lo sucedido y fue a conversarlo con el médico del pueblo:

"medico, tengo que hacerle dos preguntas importantes para mi yo no se hacer con esto pero usted quizás sepa."Le pregunto de una forma desesperada.

"Bueno señor si quiere yo le respondo pero necesito que se tranquilice porque si no, no voy a poder responderle, bueno hágame sus preguntas." Le pregunto de una forma calma

"Esta bien tiene razón la primera pregunta es que yo fui al corral por mi hijo y no lo encontre pero encontre el cuerpo de Eduardo que venía por un toro al momento vi que Esteban no estaba pero encontre un toro afuera del corral que le faltaba todo un cuerno, lo que mas me asusto fue que hace unos dias Esteban había perdido medio oreja y al toro le faltaba todo el cuerno, pero mitad del cuerno estaba en la espalda de Eduardo, en conclusion el toro es mi hijo y no se que hacer." Alfredo le conto al medico desesperado

"Bueno, yo no tengo mucho que decir, lo principal es que Esteban siempre va a ser su hijo quiera o no, si usted lo ama lo va a tener que cuidar para siempre." El medico respondio de una forma formal

" Mi segunda pregunta es por que se convirtio en un toro." Le pregunto mas relajado

" Me contaron que su hijo a estado toda la semana cuidan toros porque usted se fue, bueno mi conclusion es que al pasar mucho tiempo el entendio lo que les pasaba y se convirtio en uno de ellos"

Alfredo decidió cuidar al toro Esteban y lo nombro Torteban como si fuera su hijo y siguió con el trabajo de familia.