Shed Number XII

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As soon as I read the title of this story the question came up in my head what kind of adventure or life can have the shed? What kind of the association can be made? Dirty place, trash, backyard house, uselessness, deserted? But then, during the reading, it becomes very interesting, for example, who’s gonna win the disposition barrels of cucumbers or rustling of tires? Is the Shed Number XII will find the strength to resist life circumstances? Do the dream needs or needs a rational view of things? What is the meaning of the life? This story contributes to a sense of respect to own personality, the ability to save personality, to find resistance forces disastrous life circumstances, to put questions to the choice of life even the main characters are the inanimate object, the author reunited incongruous. We can follow how is the formation of the identity of the Shed Number XII and the connection with this change of his attitude to life. Only after the self-needs it starts his real life. And when it began, the Shed had a feeling of happiness. But those feelings didn’t last long. Misunderstanding and contempt of others was the source and conductor of Shed’s new feeling. And Number XII clashed with the reality. Shed experienced the most terrible feeling, it is the loneliness. The disposition …show more content…
But this is the only culmination. The final scenes the Shed does not exist anymore, but the soul is immortal, and that it is able to fulfill the dream. In this story presents a moral if you really want to, that dream will come true, and even if not, it is necessary to paint the life, that life does not become a senseless stagnation. Teaches seek the strength of resistance disastrous life circumstances (outlook barrels of pickles). Teaches do not lose with age, the ability to dream. Teaches be you, do not lose their

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