El Papa Siempre Tiene La Razón Analysis

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In this short story “El Papá Siempre Tiene la Razón,” author Hans Christian Andersen quiet humorously tells a childhood story he heard over and over continually when he was little. He starts telling the story of how the Farmer and his wife lived in a really old farmhouse with moss and weeds on the roof, slanted walls, a stork nest decorated on the chimney and they owned a horse which was their prize possession. The farmer traded away their horse for a sack of rotten apples in a number of endless gains of bargains. A couple of Englishmen made a wager with the farmer knowing his wife will not like any of his deals. Then the wife agrees with her husband the farmer. Of course the Englishmen’s were amazed and paid up. It all started when the farmer

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