The Weighing Machine Author : Heinrich Theodorl Bell

            One a laborer and a bookstore clerk. He was once a soldier in the German Army. He was awarded the Nabel Prize for literature in 1972 for his contribution to the revival of German literature after world war II his works are the following The train Was on time ( 1949) Trilogy depicting life in Germany during and after Nazi Regine entitled and never said a solitary Word (1953) The unguarded House (1954) , The Bread of our Early Years ( 1955) Billiards at half Past Wine ( 1959 0The clown ( 1963) Group portrait with a lady 1971)

Summary of the story

            The story is all about a painful discovery of “ How the scales of justice are everywhere loaded against the pacer”, by a family whose members bear within themselves the scar of a lost battle against injustice.

Characters clever hard working boy

Grand father – very curious about the gone unity of the weighing machines measure. He’s the one who discovered the anomaly of the weighing machine.

A villager – live a simple life and was under the power of the Baleks for many generations

Baleks – Rich and powerful but they were evil from Butek. He was a fraud and greedy.

Kaiser franz Josef – promoted Balek to noble. / nobility.

Gertrude – very Serious to every job she had.

Wilhelm vohla poacher who stole the weighing    machine.

Setting – Germany

·         Conflict - the innocence of the people on the anomaly of the weighing machine.

·         Cultural Strange

            The status classification of people noble are those who are rich and owned a great number of properties.

·         Poetic Justice

            The anomaly was discovered. People were able to be given the chances to claim their money.

·         Relevance of the story

            This shows how unfair the society is the injustice done by those who were in position towards the poor were shown in the story.

·         Moral everybody things that we do have its consequences God are rewarded Bad were punished.