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Land's Value
In Phantoms time land ment wealth and power. The more land you had the wealthier you looked and the more power you had. -
Phantom
Phantom the protaganist is a poor peasent who works hard all day. -
Phantom Boasts
Phantom, the main caracter believes that owning land will solve all of his problems: “If I had plenty of land, I shouldn’t fear the Devil himself!” . -
The Devil Hears Phantom
The devil, overhearing this boast, decides to give Pahom his wish, seducing him with the extra land that Pahom thinks will give him security -
Phantom Is Happy
Phantom is loving his land but this is about to change -
Phantom Gets The Money For His First Land
Phantom gets enough money for the land he wants -
Phantom Desires More Land
He moves his family to a land in which he can obtain 125 acres. There he obtains 125 acres and is ten times better off than he was before, and he is very pleased. -
Unfortunatily For Phantom
Phantom unfortunatly still is getting more gredier and is desiring ore adnmore land. -
Phatom Gets Even More Greeder
Pahom beomes dissatisfied and begins desiring better land. He almost clinches a deal in which he can obtain 1300 acres from a man who is in debt. -
Pahom Learns Of Lush Land Of The Bashkirs.
Through a traveling peasant from the land of the Bashkirs, Pahom learns of lush land of the Bashkirs. The peasant comes along and entices Pahom with a desire for the lush Bashkir land. Pahom becomes more selfish as the story progresses. He decides to travel to the Bashkir land. -
He Makes Another Deal
He finds that the land is lush and desirable. Pahom stikes up a deal with the Bashkirs. He can have all the land he can walk around in one day for a thousand rubles. Pahom agrees to the deal. -
Phantom Begin His Walk
He starts his day on top of a little hill. The deal is he has to make it back to the starting point by sundown. Pahom tries to encircle more land than he can get around in one day. -
Phantom's End
The greed got the better of Fanthom and as Fanthom raced to the starting point he died. -
The Devil Ultimeatly Wins
When the boast was first made Phantom though he was better that the devil but in the end it proves that Phantom was not. -
Greed
In 1868 people needed to be greedy so they could survive. Most of the townspeople in that time barley made enough to eat off of, so whe Phantom got this oppurtunity it was the first time he was able to own something himself and he loved it a little too much.