House Taken Over By Julio Cortazar

Choice A:

The above passage comes from the story of House Taken Over by Julio Cortazar. It represents a thematic that people are ready to help others even at their worst possible times. In the story, the narrator and his sister are chased by unknown characters, referred to as "they", out of their own house. "They" are portrayed to be of evil nature. In order to prevent any burglary in their house, not because they are afraid that they are going to lose their assets but because they want to prevent the misfortuned burglars from running into "them". Thus, they simply lock the front door and throw the key into a sewer.

In the story, "they" have been terrifying the narrator and his sister for a long time. "They" have been taking portions of their house and the siblings could only hope for good. However, they were always in grief not knowing when "they" would take more portion of the house, or even worse, their lives. To comfort each other, they collaborated work on the kitchen, the cleaning as well as the sister's knitting. They were ready to help each other even when "they" were taking away down their house.

On The Second Old Man's Tale, the old man has two brothers.

Both of his brothers go out on separate voyages to return home later as broke. The old man gives each brother a large portion his money to help them; however, his kindness is offered by betrayal when the brothers decide to kill him and take all of his money. They take him out on the third voyage where they unexpectedly meet a fairy who saves the old man when the two brothers attempted to kill him. When the fairy tries to punish the brothers by taking their own lives, the old man begs her to not to punish severely. In this way, we see that the old man, even after losing all his money and overcoming a near-death experience, is still trying to help his

brothers.

On the story of Giribala, Aulchand, Giribala the character's husband, unknowingly sells two of his daughters into prostitution. When he sold his first daughter, Giribala was deeply grived. When Aulchand sold his second daughter, it can be concluded that Aulchand did not learn anything from his first mistake. Giribala, who would never let such a thing happen, is suffering the same grief that she suffered when she lost her first daughter. She decides that she is going to abandon her husband (very uncommon and unsocial in the context of the story) and decides to raise them by herself. In this way, she clings to help her children even when she knows that she is going to go through a lot of trouble in feeding herself and her three children.

On the story of Antigone, Antigone the character goes back home to discover her brothers Eteocles, the then king, and Polyneices, both dead in a battle against each other. After Eteocles's death, Kreon, their uncle, became the king. Kreon ordered proper burial for Eteocles but left the body of Polyneices to rot on the ground, and made it illegal to bury his body. Antigone went against Kreon to give a proper burial to her brother. After being caught, she was offered a death sentence. She believed that giving a proper burial to a dead body was of utmost importance to the body's soul. While digging her own grave, she also built one for her brother. In this manner, she helped her dead brother even while she would receive the capital punishment.
Therefore, it is of utmost importance to always believe in others. People will always be ready to help others in need no matter how bad their own situation is.