Found 8 Articles for Prose

Chapter Summary The “Lost Spring” is a story of the pathetic condition of the poor children. This story discusses the children who cannot enjoy their childhood due to their family pressure as well as the financial crisis. All over the world, this problem can be seen and the children do not get the schooling opportunity. In their early life, the children were forced to enter the labour industry. Any kind of education, as well as enjoyment, is not at all entered their life. In this story, writer Anees Jung raised a voice for the elimination of child labour. Jung proposed ... Read More

Chapter Summary The story “Indigo” is based on the interview of Mahatma Gandhi that was taken by Louise Fischer. To write about him, Fischer had visited him in the year 1942. He was in the Ashram-Sevagram, where he came to know everything about the Indigo movement. This story features the struggle that was made by Mahatma Gandhi for the underprivileged peasants of the Champaran. Gandhi Ji also told him how he planned and initiated the process of departure of the British government. That is when in this interview he recalled one person named Rajkumar Shukla who was a sharecropper ... Read More

Chapter Summary The main concept of the story, “Deep Water” is the strength of “will-power” and how determination can lead a person to achieve success. This story is an extraction of this writer’s writing Men and Mountain. The writer had overcome his fear of water by taking some significant measures. The reasons for developing such fear in the writer’s mind are two incidents. The first incident occurred when the writer was of 4 years and a wave knocks him down. The second incident happened when the impacts of the first incident were not at all disappeared from the writer’s ... Read More

Chapter Summary The French Author Alphonse Daudet wrote The last lesson. In this story, the author talks about the events that took place in 1870 when France was annexed by the Prussian forces led by Bismarck. Then on Lorraine and Alsace went under Prussian rule. French was discontinued to be taught in these two districts. The French teachers were ordered to leave these districts. Subsequently, Mr. Hamel was not allowed to teach the students anymore on the premise of his old school. However, the last lesson that he taught to the students was full of love and dedication and taught ... Read More

Chapter Summary Image: Writer Umberto Eco “The Interview” is an excerpt taken from the Penguin Book of Interviews, written by Christopher Silvester. In the current story, the author has outlined the process of interview as a new way of asking questions and answers to outline various aspects of life. The requirements bring in the reference of the field of journalism to address the issues of the questionnaire and bring in the importance of new techniques. Furthermore, the author states that the interview has become a crucial field in everyone’s course of life, irrespective of class or strata of society ... Read More

Chapter Summary The story “Poets and Pancakes” is taken from the book My Years with Boss written by Asokamitran. This book was written when Asokamitran used to work in Gemini studios. This was one of the best films in those days. It has been understood from the story that Asokamitran’s job is cutting newspaper clippings that concern various topics and maintaining a file of the same job. Here, the story depicts a lot about the film industry mainly the film production industry that is present in India. An inside glimpse is found while working on this. This book was ... Read More

Chapter Summary A.R. Barton in his story “Going Places” is a glimpse of fantasies or daydreams. In this story A.R. Barton portrays the teenage period in such a wide canvas when the boys and girls are dreaming of their future life and made fantasies about everything. Teenagers have no sense of reality and they are fascinated by achieving their goals though it is sometimes impossible for them. At their age, they look up like a hero and the principal fact of this story is meeting then with reality. The story is all about a girl named Sophie. She belonged ... Read More

Chapter Summary The story “The Rattrap” revolves around a peddler of rat traps who is on the brink of death himself. His overall outfit is mere rags and a generic look of shabbiness. He does not have a family therefore, he leads a nomadic life selling traps and finding shelter. On a cold night, he asked for shelter from an old man who gladly gave him one. He fed the peddler with a bowl of warm food and played cards with him. Later the peddler stole the money this old man had with him, hence he ran away. Some days ... Read More