how did the people in alyakhin's workplace treat vanka? Complete the fo table using appropriate phrases /clauses from the story
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Vanka 's life in the Alyakhin household is utterly wretched and miserable. Alyakhin treats his young apprentice very badly indeed, subjecting him to regular beatings for all manner of petty infractions. The day before Vanka writes to his grandfather, Alyakhin yanked him by the hair and dragged him out into the yard, where he beat him mercilessly with.
Vanka is one of Chekhov's many stories with a child-family separation theme. When Anton was fifteen he was separated from his own family when his father fled creditors and took his family to Moscow. Chekhov stayed behind to finish school, working to pay his own tuition and sending extra money to his family when he could. The trials of family seperation became a recurring theme in Chekov's writing. Vanka was published on Christmas Day in 1886. It's an excellent story and we have also included it in our collection of Christmas Stories.
VANKA ZHUKOV, a boy of nine, who had been for three months apprenticed to Alyahin the shoemaker, was sitting up on Christmas Eve. Waiting till his master and mistress and their workmen had gone to the midnight service, he took out of his master's cupboard a bottle of ink and a pen with a rusty nib, and, spreading out a crumpled sheet of paper in front of him, began writing. Before forming the first letter he several times looked round fearfully at the door and the windows, stole a glance at the dark ikon, on both sides of which stretched shelves full of lasts, and heaved a broken sigh. The paper lay on the bench while he knelt before it.