The Spanish painter

                                               Grodno University named  Yanka Kupala

The control independent work on:

“The Spanish painter”

                                              Made by

                                                                                 Anzhela Shchuka,

                                                                    282 group

Grodno,2013

1. Memory-memorize-memorable
2. Creation-to create-creative
3. Reality-realize-real
4. Description-describe-descriptive
5. Collection-to collect-collective
6. Respect-respect-respectful
7. Service-to serve-serviceable
8. Invitation-to invite-invitational
9. Politician-politick-political
10. Wonder-to wonder-wonderful
11. Power-power-powerful
12. Imagination-to imagine-imaginable

2. Chapter 3

1. Why was Charlie unhappy?
2. Why didn't Charlie go home with his mother?
3. What did Charlie decided to do?
4. Why didn't Charlie notice the man who was standing in front of him?
5. What did Charlie get from the man?
6. What did the letter say?
7. What did Charlie hear in the office?
8. Why didn't Mr. Crumpton tell Charlie who the client was?
9. What was the money for?
10. What did Mr. Crumpton put on the table in front of Charlie?

Chapter 4

1. Why did Charlie visit Mendoza four years later?
2. What did Charlie bring?
3. What was in the picture?
4. What was Mendoza's opinion of Charlie's drawing?
5. What did Mendoza say about Charlie as an artist?
6. Why was Charlie happy?
7. What was Charlie's story about the past four years?
8. Why couldn't Charlie get anything of Crumpton about the money?
9. What did Mendoza tell Charlie about the person Charlie wanted to thank to?
10. Why did Charlie continue drawing?

3. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. 
    The above statement may sound strange, but there is a lot of truth in it. Parents often think that they know better what is best for their children. They believe that they have the right to choose their children's future. This is often caused by their love towards the children and by the fact that they want to protect them. But that can also be because of their vanity or because they do not treat their children as individuals but rather as a way to satisfy their own needs. There is nothing strange then that in such cases a child – feeling neither respect, nor understanding – may hate their parents so much that they do not even want to meet them till their parents' death.  
    Such was the case of a young artist, Charlie (The Spanish Painter by William Taine), whose mother did not understand his love for drawing. They had “never had such low ideas or such low people in … family”, and she wanted “the fine, useful career” for her son – that was her idea of politics, something really worth doing in her opinion, the thing Charlie's father did. You may think she just wanted good for her son – a good job and a good wife in the future. But when she says “It is my duty to the memory of his dear father” and “If he refuses to change his mind... I'll close my door in his face” you can easily see that she has neither love, nor respect for her child. It does not matter for her that Charlie loves drawing, even that he may have a talent, she does not care for his feelings and she is not even afraid of hurting him. She asks Mendoza, a famous artist Charlie respects a lot, to tell her son he has no talent no matter what the truth is. Mendoza is a wise man, a smart one. He sees in Charlie's drawings a fine future for the talented boy and he does for him a lot more than his own mother. He accepts the money from Charlie's mother and lies to the boy that he cannot draw but gives him the money through his lawyer. He keeps secret about who the money comes from and the money is to be received weekly during five years – a small sum, enough for modest life and at the same time for Charlie's career of an artist to be continued. In fact, he is more of a parent here for Charlie than Charlie's mother, and Charlie feels that. He is full of gratefulness for the kind stranger and he does not want to have anything to do with his mother. And he becomes a true artist.  
    I believe there is something in every parent that makes them want to live their children's life, to choose for their children, to avoid mistakes, to use their experience in order to protect their children. Parents should be careful about that – and many of them are - because this is the easiest way to make their children unhappy and helpless. And this can also be the reason for being hated by their children. Most parents heard at least once “I hate you” from their child – this should be a warning for them. But when this is not love, care or fear make them act in a disrespectful way towards the children, but things like vanity or their own satisfaction, then I must say they deserve to be hated.