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This is a very light story.It is set in the future. It will make all of you love school. This story is regarding school life and how those children who do not got to school, miss school. The setting of the story is in the future...
Evelyn Glennie is a multi-percussionist. She can play about 1000 instruments with perfection. She listens to sound without hearing it. Evelyn fought against a physical disability & became a source of inspiration for thousands of disabled...
The Little Girl" is a short story written by Katherine Mansfield.This story is depicted around a little girl named Kezia.When her father gets home from work it used to be her job to remove his boots.Mother told Kezia that this was her reward for...
Albert Einstein was born on March 14,1879 in the German city of Ulm. He had no signs of greatness .His mother thought that he was a freak. When he learned to speak he spoke everything twice .He was boring for other children .So he played by...
My Childhood" is an extract taken from the autobiographical book, 'Wings of Fire' by A.P.J.Abdul Kalam. Here Dr. Kalam who is one of the greatest scientists of India and also the 14th President of India gives an account of his childhood days. His...
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Lesson and explanation I SAID I’d pack.
The writer, Jerome liked to pack luggage for trips and announced that he would do the packing.
I rather pride myself on my packing. Packing is one of those many things that I...
Maria Sharapova was born in Siberia, Russia, in 1987. She led a charge of Russian players who came to achieve great success in the women's game. She has also brought her own brand of glamour to tennis by designing her own unique tennis outfits....
Once Bruno ate the rat poison which was kept to get rid of rats from the library. Bruno became paralysed to the extent that he couldn't stand on his feet. He was taken to a veterinary doctor for treatment. Finally the antidote worked and Bruno...
Kathmandu is a travelogue written by Vikram Seth. It is the description of the two famous temples of Kathmandu. One is the Pashupatinath and the other is the Baudhnath Shrine. The author first visited Pashupatinath Temple where he finds the...
Gerrard is a cultured playwright. He lives in a small cottage. He does meet many people. He is to go out soon, but before he does so, an intruder enters his cottage. The intruder is a criminal and has a gun in his hand. He bumps accidentally...
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In the poem - ‘The Road Not Taken’, the road symbolizes our life. The poet says that the path that we don’t choose in our life is ‘the road not taken’. He describes his feelings about that choice that he had left in...
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We all know that wind is a natural phenomenon. In this poem, the poet talks to the wind. The power of wind has been described and the poet says that wind is destructive. He has linked the destructive power of wind...
The humidity of the atmosphere is relatively high as it lingers below the dark skies and the twinkling shimmering light of the stars forms into roundness of visible source of light. Though the darkness mourns the melancholic spirit of...
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This poem is a lyric. It is a musical poem. It explores the poet’s longing for the peace and tranquility of Innisfree, a place where he spent a lot of time as a boy.Innisfree is the name of a place. It is a very quiet...
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‘A legend of the Northland’ is a ballad. A ballad is a poem narrating a story in short stanzas. Ballad is such kind of poem which tells a story in short stanzas and in the poem all the stanzas comprise four lines. In...
The Poem No Men are Foreign by James Kirkup is a very thoughtful and soul-stirring poem. The poem beautifully dwells on the theme of the humanity behind each human being. Let us reflect on the opening lines of this thoughtful and very noble poem....
The Duck and the Kangaroo, both were very good friends. As the duck lived in a pond and does not get a variegated life of visiting world, he wanted to have a pleasure tour all around the world. So he requested the kangaroo to allow him to sit on...
About the Poet: Gieve Patel (born on 18th August 1940) is an Indian poet and playwright. His first play was called 'Princes' and it was performed in 1971. He was born in Mumbai and educated at Grant Medical School. He briefly worked as a medical...
In the poem ,the poet tries to say that all snakes are not poisonous. Some them are quite harmless. It is foolish to kill a snake as soon as we see it. Even if a snake is poisonous, it will do us no harm if it dosen't see any danger from us . A...
This poem is about the death of a loved one and poet's feeling about his beloved when he thinks about her death. Poem also describes his imagination about his beloved after death. This poem is a kind of elegy. In this poem, the poet seems to...
Introduction to the lesson - The Lost Child
The Lost Child is the story of a small child who gets lost in a fair. He had gone with his parents to the fair but loses them when he gets engrossed in looking at a roundabout swing. The story...
Once there was a boy who lived along with his grandfather, grandmother and aunts. One day grandfather bought a monkey for five rupees from a Tonga-driver and was named it 'Toto'. Grandfather decided he would add the little fellow to his private...
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The title of this chapter- “Iswaran the storyteller” tells us that this story is about Iswaran. He is called the storyteller because as storytelling is an art, he is good at it. Iswaran uses special effects, does...
A guru and his disciple visit that kingdom.They are surprised to find the whole kingdom asleep during the day.Later on they come to know that it was the instruction given by the king.The guru being a wise man decides to leave the place as he...
The story is an allegory. It brings out the importance of charity. We learn that love and sacrifice can endear us to God. The prince in the story is no living prince. He is the statue of a dead prince decorated with gold leaves and precious...
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The story gives an account of the storm that hit the coastal town of Ersama in Odisha state in the year 1999. A young boy Prashant faced the fury of the storm and reached his village. The details of how he worked...
"The Last Leaf" takes place in Greenwich Village, a bohemian neighborhood in New York City, sometime in the early 20th century. The narrator remarks that the labyrinthine, winding streets of the neighborhood make it an ideal home for artists,...
This is a real incident of a teenager Zan Gaudioso. The narrator in this story is a teenager who finds it difficult to make new friends and adjust to a new place. He feels lonely and expressed. After junior high school, the narrator joined the...
The story is a narrative within the narrative. The writer tells us the story which was told to him by a homeopathic doctor. As we see from the title, the snake and the mirror are the two most important things in the story. This homeopathic doctor...
This is a humorous story where the writer talks of the incidences where he acts clumsy. He tries to behave in a sophisticated manner but is unable to do so and ends up spilling drinks, smearing his face with ink and creating a mess on the dining...
He talks of a country , his country , where he wishes to see his fellow countrymen liberated from the fear of oppression , the fear of punishment such that the self dignity of each citizen is preserved and the common man walks beaming with pride...
f Thou Must Love Me is sonnet no.14 of the collection Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861). She was a major woman poet in the Victorian era (1830-1890) of English literature. Sonnets from the Portuguese is a...
Inchcape Rock is a popular poem by Robert Southey about the Inchcape Rock Legend, a reef which is situated in the North Sea, close to the coastal region of Angus in Scotland. The Inchcape Rock is known for its infamy as causation for shipwreck....
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is easily one of the most famous, as well as one of the most anthologized, of Robert Frost's poems. It consists of four quatrains that have the following rhyme scheme: aaba, bbcb, ccdc, dddd. The poem's...
The poem In the Bazaars of Hyderabad is a brilliant piece of writing by the Indian Woman poet Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949). To understand the context for writing this poem, you first need to know that Sarojini Naidu was a major political...
'Small Pain in My Chest' by the American poet Michael Mack is a remarkable poem about a soldier's death and the narrator's feeling at his death. The title is an ironical one. The soldier repeatedly says that he has a small pain in his chest. But...
Before we go to a line-by-line analysis of the poem, we should note some crucial points about the structure, style and the theme of the poem. Structure: The poem I Believe is a very simple poem of some 18 lines, consisting of six stanzas of three...
The Professor by Nissim Ezekiel is a satirical poem written in the form of a conversation between a professor and his student. A satire is way of criticizing a person, an idea or something where the poet uses humour to point out their faults and...
Mrs. Reeta Baruah Class Teacher of 8 A had asked the students to write a three-minute speech on what they wished to be when they were grown up. They need not speak on any particular profession but could speak of someone whom they would want to be...
Sher Singh, the son of the brave and famous Shikari Sher Singh Bahadur is faced with the task of taking his younger brother Kunwar to the city hospital because he is seriously ill. Kunwar had to be carried to the hospital in Kalaghat. As his...
Poverty is the ideal theme of the story Hunger. The story focuses on the Iranian revolution and its aftermath, especially its impact on the country’s economy. It revolves around two characters, Rizwan and Kasim. Both the the characters are struck...
The author's friend Todd was going for a short stay in Bermuda. Just before his departure, he borrowed a dollar from the author to pay off the taxi. When Todd wrote a letter to from Bermuda, the author expected a dollar bill in the envelope. Todd...
Jumman Sheikh and Alagu Chowdhari had been close friends from their childhood. Their friendship was founded on a common outlook and a deep trust in each other. They ploughed their fields together and were partners in a money- lending business. In...
The Last Leaf, short story by O. Henry, published in 1907 in his collection The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories. "The Last Leaf" concerns Johnsy, a poor young woman who is seriously ill with pneumonia. She believes that when the ivy vine on the...
“Kabuliwala” by Tagore is a tale of heart-rending friendship between a 5-year-old Bengali girl Minnie and an Afghan moneylender, Abdur Rahman or Rahamat. The story beautifully ties a bond of mutual affection and the unconventional relationship...