The story" Vendetta" tells about life of a woman who suffers from the death of her only son and lives with the only dream to take revenge to the murderer of her child. From the very first paragraph the reader can se in what awful conditions she lived and how it influenced her mood and feelings:"clustered together on a white hill side, the house had the form of patch of dazzling whiteness". This image is used to show conditions of living. It means that due to such conditions everybody should work very hard to improve their life that is why they did not have time for each other. The author tells that everybody passed by her house and did not even notice her. It was people, who did not leave her another thought except the thought about vendetta. Nobody paid any attention to the fact that she bought a lot of black puddings.

One more character which is also worse discussing is the heroine of the novel" The School Teacher's Guest", the schoolteacher Ines. Her emotions are not very open to the reader. Unlike the heroine of "Vendetta" Ines does not think about revenge. She does not try to find the murderer of her son, as she knows that fate will bring him back to her again. The personal force of school teacher is not there till she meets the killer of her child and commits the murder herself. Like vendetta mothers' caring bonds are big enough to make her to take revenge. Two stories have a lot of common things, except plot and some events. The authors of both texts describe the events very realistically, especially scenes of murder. This scene is shown very well especially in the novel" The School Teacher's Guest", where the murder and victim are described in details.