The Devoted Friend

The Devoted Friend

1. Hans

   • Pretty generous wont hesitate on helping others, he is humble and doesnt magnifies himself, also is compassionate about others happenings and wouldnt do anything to hurt anybody to extreme of sacrificing his life

2. The Miller

   • He is selfish dosent care about other peoples happenings or wellbeing and puts above anyone the materialistic things, takes advantage of people on his favor, manipulative, blames others in order to victimise himself

3. Themes

   • Selfishness of humans and the ones close to us, toxic friendships, saying no, the intentions of others towards you are not always good, emotional manipulation, materialism, to what point can we be dovoted, we should put limits to pople.

4. Plot

   • The story is set in some field of France, it is presented the friendship between Hans and the Miller, they get along, each one has different jobs, Little Hans sells flowers so he dosent have too much income as the Miller, but the Miller seems to take advantage everytime he can of the generosity of Hans, in this manner the Miller starts to ask for any kind of favors, and whenever Hans needed a favor the Miller would reject any help to him, this continues to hapend until one day Little Hans dies because of sacrificing himself to help the Miller. Not even at this point the Miller seems to feel compasion or concideration for Little Hans, the other way, he feels upsted and blames him because of his ill-conditioned wheelbarrow, that he promised to give to Little Hans and never did.