Topic > The Gamble - 565

This story effectively analyzes the elements of a story with the developments of the two main characters, the place, the social conditions, the plot, the conflict and the theme. The point of view in the first part of the story is weak; although in the second part of the story it is clear who is moving. The background of the story is that a lawyer and a businessman get into a heated argument and make a bet. The discussion was about the morality of imprisonment and death. The two men bet over two million dollars; the task was that the lawyer could not leave his cell for over fifteen years. If the lawyer had decided to give up before fifteen years (he was free to leave at any time he chose) then he would have lost. At the end of the story the banker realized that he most likely had multiple depts. than he had millions. The banker decided that to avoid an economic crisis he would kill the lawyer. When he approached the prison the lawyer was sleeping and noticed a note. When the banker read the banknote he left, with an episode of murder...