The document summarizes the short story "The Bet" by Anton Chekhov. It describes how a lawyer and banker made a bet where the lawyer would spend 15 years in solitary confinement to prove that death by execution is easier than life imprisonment. The document outlines the conditions of the lawyer's imprisonment, including what resources he would have access to. It also notes some of the lawyer's activities over the years in prison and concludes that the lawyer was the ultimate loser of the bet while the banker was the winner.

2. Mahmudul Hasan
Id: 162-10-145
Department of English

3. The Bet by Anton Chekhov

4. Main Characters
The Lawyer The Banker
Topic of Argumentation: Capital Punishment

5. Result of Argumentation
The lawyer went imprisonment for fifteen years to prove that life
imprisonment is easier than execution.

6. The facilities that the lawyer will get during imprisonment are…
Food, books, wine, cigerates, musical instrument, music.
Place of prison is...
The lodge of the banker.
Conditions are…
The lawyer will not get news paper, he will get everything which was written in the agreement
but only through the little window of the lodge.

7. Some works of the prisoner during his
imprisonment.
2nd year: Asked for classics
5th year: Asked for wine.
6th year: Started studying language, philosophy, history.

8. Result of the bet
The winner The looser

9. Lesson for the readers
 Both greed and solitude can destroy human life.
 Freedom is priceless and precious.
 Money is worthless but knowledge and science are
priceless.

10. Lesson for the readers
 Both greed and solitude can destroy human life.
 Freedom is priceless and precious.
 Money is worthless but knowledge and science are
priceless.