Question

from the gaucho martin fierro by jose hernandez no one speak of sorrows to me because i live sorrowing; and nobody should give himself airs even though hes got a foot in the stirrup— even the gaucho with most sense often finds himself left on foot you gather experience in life, enough to lend and give away. if you have to go through with it between tears and suffering— because nothing teaches you so much as to suffer and cry. man comes blind into the world with hope tugging him on, and within a few steps, misfortunes have caught him and beat him down... the hard lessons time with its changes brings! i have known the land when the working - man lived in it and had his little cabin and his children and his wife... it was a delight to see the way he spent his days. then, when the morning star was shining in the blessed sky, and the crowing of the cocks told us that day was near, a gaucho would make his way to the kitchen. it was a joy and sitting beside the fire waiting for day to come and suck at the bar - yard kid! oh for a glowing warm, little kid! you would do anything to fix the gaucho. this passage is written as a first - person narrative told from the perspective of a gaucho. using what you know about the gaucho, write a fictional, narrative story on a separate sheet of paper from the point of view of a gaucho about what happened that caused him to become “so beaten down” (line 48).

Explanation:

The task is to write a fictional narrative story from the perspective of a gaucho. It requires creativity and knowledge about the gaucho's life and experiences to imagine and describe events that led to the gaucho feeling "so beaten down".

Answer:

A fictional narrative story from the gaucho's point - of - view needs to be written on a separate sheet of paper as per the instructions. (Note: Since it's a writing task, the actual story content is not provided here as it is expected to be written by the person doing the assignment, but the response indicates what the task is asking for.)