A Boy who Need a Freedom in “Vanka” Story by Anton Cekhov
“Vanka” is the one of stories that written by Cekhov. In this story, Cekhov as the author or the narrator who tells the story. It can be showed by the use of third singular pronoun “he” that signifies “Vanka” as the major character, for example in the “By the day he slept in the servants kitchen or cracked jokes with the cook ....”(see the 3rd paragraph). Besides that the author knowing all the private thoughts and feelings of everyone in the story, especially in this story the protagonist character is “Vanka”. That is pointed by Cekhov as the writer knows the vanka’s dream that he saw his grandfather sat on the stove, his bare legs hanging down, and read the letter to the cooks (see the last paragraph).
The use of omnicient author point of view in this story is similar with the other Cekhov story, for example “Happiness”. The similarity of the omnicient author point of view from both stories are showed in the “Happiness” story the author involves in the story, for example the author is in the toothless old man of eighty. It showed by the use of aphostrope in the story and knows what the old man experience with the treasure.
From “Vanka” story the author looking at world through psychological view. It can be pointed that the nine years old boy whom naturally play with his friends, school, and feel happy in his chilhood but here different, he should work againts his will. In addition, in the story of “Happiness” the phycological view is “what was the use of earthly happiness to people who might die any day of old age?” (see the last paragraph). The last, it means that the earthly happiness just can make people happy for a moment.
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