Monsieur D’Hubieres’ suggestion puts the Vallin into a difficult position. Were they right to behave as they did? Remember to refer to the situation at the time the story is set.

... Monsieur D'Hubieres' suggestion puts the Vallin into a difficult position. Were they right to behave as they did? Remember to refer to the situation at the time the story is set. After first reading the story, in my mind there were only two thoughts about it. Selling Jean was wrong, and Charlot is a very ungrateful child. After reading "Country Living" a further two times my opinion of the events are not quite as black and white as they once were. Charlot in my opinion is still a very rude and ungrateful child to his hardworking but perhaps snobbish parents, however it is much harder to say what the Vallin did was as wrong as I may have once thought it was. Written in 1883, Country Living surrounds two very close families of the French peasantry. The Tuvache and Vallin are great friends. Their children play together and it is

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