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1. The Kiss
by Anton Chekov
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2. Summary
The Kiss by Anton Chekov tells about a man named Riabovitch who cannot forget
his first experience to kiss by a woman. When he comes to von Rabbek’s house (at
the village of Miestetchki) as an invitation a party of his batteries, he is accidentally
come into a dark room. He is around the house to make some adventure. In that
dark room, he met a woman who suddenly kisses him. But, she kisses wrong guy.
She thinks that Riabovitch is the man who has appointment with her in the dark
room. That kiss happened so fast and he realizes that it just accidental, he is also
embraces nevertheless no one know it. At dinner time, he searching the woman’s
faces (he cannot see well because it is too dark). There are many people in the party,
includes a family of von Rabbek, many beautiful woman, and another guest. The first
is a woman in lilac; she has pretty shoulders and arms, a cleaver face, a charming
voice. He hopes that is the woman, but she has long nose and the woman does not
has long nose. The second is a blonde woman in black suit. She is younger, simpler,
sincerer, and also drink with grace attitude. He thinks that she is the one, but he goes
wrong again she has a flat face. The third is a woman beside his friend, Lobuitko. If
the three person individual characteristics mingled become one, he imagines a face of
a woman who kissed him but she does not appear anywhere.

3. • He always thinking about the kiss and still looking for the woman.
Until he and his batteries continued his journey to their camp. He
becomes a brave man after he experience his first kiss and fells that
he fall in love with the woman even he does not know who is she and
what she looks like. He tells his experience to his friends, but they
laugh him and do not believe his story. He acts as a man who is fall in
love when his friends talk about marriage. On the thirty-first of
August, he leaves his camp with two batteries. When they arrive to
the Miestetchki, Riabovitch remember the house, the dark room, also
the woman he falls in love with. He around the house of von Rabbek,
but it is very quite. So, he goes to the river, enjoying the river from the
bridge. After it he said to himself that he is stupid because he hopes
and love someone that he does not know about the identity. He
moves on and tries to forget his first kiss. Then, a horseman comes to
him and give invitation but he ignore it.

4. The Elements of the Short Story
 Plot
 Character
 Setting
 Theme
 Point of view
 Symbol
 Irony

5. Plot
Plot is the sequence of incidents or events of
which a story is composed.
Climax
Conflict Anti climax
Denouement
Introduction
(end)

6. Character
 Lieutenant Loibuitko
 General von Rabbek
 Ex-Empress Eugénie
 Staff-Captain Riabovitch
 The woman
 Girl in lilac
 The blonde in black
 Lieutenant Merzliakoff
 Madame Lopukhoff
 Captain Watchter
 Salmanoff

7. Setting
 Setting is where is the story take place and the
time.
 Setting of time
 Setting of place
 Setting of condition

8. Theme
• Theme is a piece of fiction is its controlling idea
or its central insight. Not all stories have a
theme.
• Three possible ways to stating the theme of
“The Kiss”

9. Point of View
 Point of view, of who tells the story.
 The point of view in this short story is
omniscient point of view.

10. Symbol
 Symbol is something that means more than
what it is.
 The nightingale is given an emphasis not given
to the drowsy snipe.
 Nightingale is supported by the behavior of
Riabovitch, the main character of the story.
 The nightingale, the wet towel, and the moon’s
reflection are neither example nor evidences of
Riabovitch’s emotional condition.

11. Irony
 Irony is a term with a range of meaning; all of them
enclose some sort of incompatibility or anomaly. It
is a contrast in which one term of the contrast in
some way mocks the other term.
 This short story use irony of situation.
 It is ironic that a rather trivial accident should have
such a disproportionate effect on Riabovitch’s
thoughts and feelings, and this disparity tells us
something about Riabovitch and about human
nature in general.