Hello friends today we are discuss this question, the question is -“We’ve had the land for nearly three hundred years…”-Who is the speaker? Who is spoken to? What is referred to as ‘the land’ ? What do you know of ‘the land’ from their conversation?
Here, the speaker is Natalya Stepanovna. Natalya is speaking to Ivan Vassilevitch Lomov. The Oxen Meadows which are wedged in between birchwoods and the Burnt Marsh are referred to as the land’.
According to Natalya, Oxen Meadows are the property of the Chubukovs and they are the owners of the and for nearly three hundred years. But Lomov declares that this land was once a subject of dispute. His aunt’s grandmother gave the free use of the Oxen Meadows in perpetuity to the peasants of her father’s grandfather and in return, they had to make bricks for her. The peasants of her father’s grandfather had the free use of the Meadows for forty years and considered those meadows as their own property. But Natalya does not believe Lomov’s words and starts arguing with him on this issue.