Summary Of The Story What Of This Goldfish Would You Wish

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In the story "What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?" there is a very ambitious young man by the name of Yonatan, who was going around creating a documentary. He knocked on doors asking people what would they if they were granted three wishes by a goldfish,
Yonatan went to different people different areas to get different answers. Unfortunately,
Yonatan was not getting the answers he wanted, Yonatan was trying to become big in the TV world and he wanted to make this documentary poignant and have deep meaning. The answers he had been getting weren't cutting it he needed more so he expanded his horizons and went to other areas. He came up on a house that and knocked like he did every other house, the men opened the door and Yonatan explained
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Yonatan did not leave instead ran in and looked at the gold fish that Sergei had sitting on a stand, Sergei did not like this at all. Sergei lost control of what he was doing and once he became conscious of what just happened the boy was on the ground blood rushing out of his head. He didn’t know what to do he was nervous he thought the boy was trying to take his fish. The fish began to remind
Sergei that he had one more wish left, which Sergei knew but he had something in mind for the last wish that he was saving for. Sergei’s other two wishes were to help his sister with lung cancer his girlfriend’s son that soon after left him. Sergei did not want to use his last wish on this boy, the fish kept chiming in because he wanted to be released so he convinced
Sergei to use the wish. The story comes back with what basically happens later that lets you know Sergei used his third wish. So, Yonatan finally got the deep wish he was looking for. “I wish for
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The two are a married poor couple that only argue all the time so a woman comes to them and says their life could change in three days if they go without arguing, and they get three wishes. The couple began being very unusually kind to one another. This went on for three days, and they still weren’t sure what to wish for. Loppi decided to get food they had rice and sat to eat, they prayed over their dinner and the only thing they wanted was a sausage to go with it. A sausage suddenly popped on to the table and Loppi realized that he had just lost a wish. He got anger and began to say if only this sausage was upon your face, and then the sausage appeared on Lappi’s nose like it was a part of her flesh. So now a second wish was gone. Now the only thing Loppi wanted to wish for now was for Lappi’s nose to go back to normal. The stories are similar because in both the characters were presented three wishes. Lappi and Loppi were just as lonely and miserable Sergei. They went on with life with a daily schedule just like Sergei, they didn’t have man visitors as well as Sergei. Sergei was a very orderly grumpy man, as well as the unfortunate old couple. Also, they both kind of had

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