Shifts
How does the time shift in-between sections help contribute to the story?
Allows time of Pahom to develop a successful life, just for his greed to overcome him and make him leave for more land.
What is the theme of the story?
Greed
What does Pahom want more than anything?
LAND
What is the conflict shift in section 1?
The two sisters arguing about lifestyles -> Pahom and the devil.
What lesson does the story teach about greed?
Greed can destroy a person's happiness and ultimentaly their life.
The devil and greed
How does Pahom's conflict change at the end of the story?
It goes from a greedy stuggle to get more land to a stuggle against his physical limits and death.
What does the story suggest about the meaning of happiness?
Happiness comes from being content and satisfied with what you have.
What is the irony of Pahom's ending?
Where exacaly does the mood change in the last section of the story.
The mood changes when Pahom realized that he might not make it back in time and he becomes phisically and mentally defeated.
How does the ending of the story drastically change the theme?
Pahom dying changes the theme by punishing greed instead of rewarding it, like Pahon was rewarded with better land thorught the story.
Pahom left his comfortable life multiplue times in the story for an apportunity at a better one. What does this tell you about Pahom's character?
Greedy, risk-taker, ambitious, seflish