Do you think the message in Maugham's story is the same as or different from the message in the Aesop fable of the ant and the grasshopper? Explain.

I think that in Maugham's story is different from the message in the Aesop fable because in story of the Fable is trying to explain how important is to work and care about the future. Both characters are different point of view their own life so they are an example of what you can get or where you can be if you work hard for your future. Sometimes, we can enjoy our life doing anything that we like but we always need to think about the future. If somebody wants to have a good future, you need to work hard to obtain good results. However, in the story of the Maugham the Grasshopper ending in good conditions without work hard because of a stroke of luck and the ant never forgave the grasshopper because he was selfish at the end of the story. Even though the ant worked so hard, he didn't get the same results that the grasshopper ending with.

Questions 1-6 p62

     1. The social critics expect people to be dissatisfied with their friendships because of the high mobility so they do not have time to make friends.  

     2. The five qualities are loyalty, the ability to keep confidences,warmth,affection and supportiveness.
     3. The two most important reasons given for ending a friendship are feeling betrayed by a friend, and discovering that a friend had very different views on issues. Feeling betrayed by a friend makes more sense to me.
    4. The three most characteristic activities among friends in this survey are have an intimate talk, helping out a friend and turning to a friend for help. 
    5. Sharing your feeling with friends and the right to ask for help from friends.
Presenting Question #6

• Vicky and Jennifer

• What limits do the respondents put on friendship?Can you be good friends with someone and say no to him or her?

• The limits that the respondents put on friendship is no helping a friend to not commit a suicide. In our experience, viky and I think that if we have a good friend, we are going to say no if we think him or her is doing something wrong or bad.

2. What ended her new happiness?

What ended Esther happiness is her overhearing the conversation between Lawrence and Father Paul that Lawrence was going to up marrying Ida McIntosh, the Hudson’s Bay factor’s daughter. Father Paul convinced and explained to his nephew that he could not marry her because of her red skin and she is a pagan Indian, also due to the fact of the significant difference between both cultures.  Even though Father Paul knew that Esther was a good woman he couldn’t accept this union between the missionary’s nephew and a pagan Indian.

                After, Esther heard the whole conversation she became heart broken and started to think with repulsive anger and hatred towards Lawrence, Father Paul and the future engagement. She didn’t want the man she loved to be married to another woman, so as she tried to leave the house silently she found Lawrence sleeping on the couch as she looked upon him with such love. Thought’s of him marrying this other women angered her with such agony and then she began to think about killing him because if she couldn’t have him no one can. In her anger she pulled out a flint arrow that had snake venom on the arrows tip, she scratched Lawrence’s wrist twice and as he stirred she left the house silently. However, nobody could find who was responsible for Lawrence’s death even though she was suspected.

Esther’s happiness ended because she couldn’t handle the idea of being without her soul mate. As a result she ended killing the love of her life.