The Bet Short Story

Verin watched a group of young soldiers grapple behind the mess tent. He split his time between checking on Fynta and offering pointers when one of the guys showed bad form. So far, comms were still offline to the group that had entered the temple, but Verin didn’t worry. Fynta was impossible to kill, and he had little stake in the others. Granted, he rather liked the Togruta. She’d fought well on Tython.

I feel his loneliness as he remembers the woman he loved and the sadness he experienced and is still experiencing due to his relationship ending.

It was a good day on spooner street and eter was enjoying his day with his wife and kids. All was well in the griffin home. No one would expect what would come next. Beter was as happy as can be sitting on his couch doing nothing.

The Bet starts with a discussion on the difference between capital punishment and life in solitary confinement. A discussion on The humanity of both options turns into a disagreement ending in a bet that will change lives forever. The bet declares that the lawyer spend 15 years in solitary confinement and if he completes this he will receive an amount of $2,000,000. Where most intelligent people would stop, the men discussed and agreed on terms

In Anton Checov's story, "The Bet", the reader is introduced to two young men who are arguing about which sentence is worse for an inmate, capital punishment or solitary confinement. The young lawyer—the man involved in an argument with the other young man who was a banker— passionetely defended his belief that said that life under any condition is better than death. The banker then challenges the young lawyer to a bet to stay imprisoned for 15 years and ifsucessful, be rewarded 2 million. The young lawyer —To my surprise— agreed without a second thought. The rest of the story is the gradual digression in the lawyers health as he suffers through imprisonment. When the reader gets to the end, the lawyer has already given up on wordly desires in order to embrace things like solitude, sickness, and death. —This itself is enough to deduce that this man has gone mad—

“The death sentence and the life sentence are equally immoral, but if I had to choose between the death penalty and imprisonment for life I would certainly choose the second. To live anyhow is better than not at all” (Chekhov 1). In Anton Chekhov’s short story “The Bet” a lawyer and a banker make a bet about which penalty is more humane. The lawyer says that life imprisonment is more humane. In saying this, the lawyer bets he can stayed locked up in a cell for 15 years without any human contact and it will show it’s more humane. In the short story “The Bet” by Anton Chekhov; the lawyer encounters many types of conflicts including man vs. man, man vs. self, and man vs. nature.

Our story’s theme is about children making a bet about them catching a big fish. The moral of our story was that, just because the girls didn’t know how to fish, doesn’t mean they can’t catch a fish. We expressed that girls can fish to and boys aren’t always the ones that are right. We connected the idea of making a bet in our story to the story’s bet in “The Bet”. The moral of our story connects to “The Bet” moral because both of them are providing a point and has irony.

is depressed, unfulfilled, and tired of his boring and annoying life. One day, he comes across a man

People seem to think that the death penalty is the easy way out of a punishment from the government, but they do not think about all the negative outcomes and effects of being sentenced to life in prison. Most people seem to think getting the death penalty is just simply cruel and unusual punishment, but being stuck in a cell room twenty-four hours a day is not cruel or unusual? Life in prison takes the life out of the convict; most even commit suicide in prison because they no longer have anything to live for. From the story “The Bet” written by Anton Chekhov, he uses the lawyer’s behavior after fifteen years in solitary confinement to show how life in prison could be worse than the death penalty.

Of the prolific 19th century for Russian literature, one of the most important literary figures is the renowned playwright and writer Anton Chekhov. Chekhov’s vast bibliography includes the short story “The Bet” which is, as it sounds, a story about a bet, however, through Chekhov’s use of isolation, harsh realism, and an emphasis on ambiguity he presents an allegorical tale which functions as a critique of man’s pride and arrogance.

In the world we live in today, money is everything. Without money one person could not even preform the things daily it takes to live. You may wonder why money is a topic of interest when it comes to the death penalty. In this essay I will show the reader that the death penalty should be implemented more often than it is now, for those inmates who serve a life sentence in prison. This topic is controversial, especially in today’s climate, but after this essay I hope to have given incite to what I think should happen in the penal system in place in this day and age.

Her shoulders sagged as if carrying too much weight. Her solemn, deeply creased, face made it obvious that she had seen better days, though these days were buried deeply in the past. My eyes moved to woman’s face. Every deep wrinkle told a different story. Betsey explained she could no longer see very clearly, now relying solely on tactile memories. Shortly after, she asked politely if she could touch my hair. Her rough, callused hands glided gently against my cheeks, as she caressed my hair. The look in her eyes spoke more than words could in that moment. She broke eye contact quickly looking to the embroidered white tablecloth. The last time she had held her granddaughter was a year ago. She told me of how her family no longer visited and

There are many connections between Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" and "The Bet" by Anton Chekhov. "The Story of an Hour" decribes a woman going thourh sadness due to her husband's death. Louise Mallard's sister Josephine tells her about Brently's death. Louise locks herself in her room, "sad" about her husband's death. Although he was considered dead, Brently Mallard walks into Louise's room, and she ends up dying of a heart disease. An optomistoc lawyer bets he can handle fifteen years of imprisonment in "The Bet". A banker tells him he can't by betting two million rubles against him. The imprisonment beats the lawyer, and so he cannot collect his prize as he left early from jail. Many unique connections can be created between the stories.

While the rest of the team had fallen asleep, I still laid awake lost in thought. We have already been on this plane for nineteen hours and thirty minutes. Which means we only have 20 minutes left on this horrible flight. I started to consider if we should've chosen a different airline, but then I realized I only dislike the 20 hours on this plane. I probably would've enjoyed this plane more if it wasn’t 20 hours. I don’t really know why, because I do enjoy the peacefulness I find on all planes.

“The old banker was walking up and down his study and remembering how, fifteen years before, he had given a party one autumn evening” (Chekhov 210) is the opening for the short story, “The Bet” by Anton Chekhov. This short story is a suspenseful writing about a banker and a lawyer, who makes a bet with each other. The lawyer bets the banker that he can stay in confinement for fifteen years for two million dollars. At the end of the short story, irony comes into play when the lawyer decides to leave confinement five minutes before his time is up and the banker wins the bet. One theme that is carried out through the story is that if you stay in prison for a lifelong sentence, it will kill you slowly.