SSLC English – Recall what you have learned

Vanka The Snake and The Mirror

7TERHEREQ - Anton Chekhov –Vaikom Mohamed Basheer
• Vanka-9 year old orphan, apprenticed to the • Homoeopath discusses snakes with his friends.
shoemaker Alyakhin. • After meals at restaurants, reached his room -
• Master, mistress, other apprentices treat him unelectrified, tiled, full of rats.
cruelly. • Sits and looks into a mirror, enjoys his own
• Writes a letter to grandpa describing his beauty, takes earthshaking decisions- shave
miserable life- worse than a dog’s life. daily, grow thin moustache, keep attractive
• Konstantin Makarich, Vanka’s grandpa-night smile on face
watchman at Zhivarev’s estate, fun-loving • Proud of being young and handsome doctor.
person, makes company with cooks and kitchen Plans about future wife – should be doctor with
maids, keeps two dogs-Kashtanka and Eel. good practice, must be fat and shouldn’t be
• He sends Vanka to Moscow after Vanka’s able to run after him.
mother Palegaya’s death. • Hears a thud, doesn’t take it serious as familiar
• Moscow, a big town, Vanka sees children selling with sounds made by rats.
fishing hooks, shops selling all sorts of guns and • Cobra slithers on him, coils on left hand, stays
butcheries selling meat of hunted birds and three or four inches away only from his face
animals. spreading its hood.
• Vanka is nostalgic of Christmas celebrations at • Doctor becomes frightened, turns to be a stone-
the big house in village, decorating Xmas tree. image, believes death lurks near, writes ‘Oh
• Remembers the happy days when he was with God’ on his heart’s wall.
his mother and Olga Ignatyevna, his favourite, • Snake sees its reflection in mirror, leaves the
who taught him to read, write, count to a doctor, stays before mirror enjoying its own
hundred and to dance the quadrille. beauty.
• Vanka pleads his grandpa to come and save from • Doctor escapes to friend’s house, stays there
the miseries, offers to help and pray for him. • Next morning returns, finds all his things have
• Posts the letter without proper address and been stolen except a dirty vest.
postage stamps. • Having heard the story, friends get relieved,
• Sleeps with sweet dreams about grandpa’s light beedi, ask questions if his wife is really
coming and getting back to the happy days in his fat. Doctor replies God willed otherwise, she is
own village. reedy thin like a sprinter.
• He thinks it’s a cobra taken by its own beauty.
Mother to Son – Langston Hughes A Girl’s Garden – Robert Frost

• Dramatic monologue, Speaker: an Afro- Narrative Poem: the girl, now a grown-up woman and
American mother, Passive listener: her son. neighbour of the poet, tells the story of her experiences
• Free Verse: No rhyme scheme, metric pattern, of making a garden.
consistent stanza system. Theme: Noble ideas together with hard work will make
• Theme: Perseverance and determination to life fruitful.
climb steps to success, to face challenges Tone and settings: simplicity and serenity of rural life.
boldly, not to give up. Style of composition: comprised of 12 quatrains (four-
• Tone: didactic and encouraging. line stanzas) with the rhyme scheme of ABCB.
Poetic Devices: Hyperbole – A hill each of potatoes
• Poetic Device: Extended metaphor – mother’s
Poetic Licence: ‘But she don’t mind now’.
life is compared to stairs. Hers is not crystal
Alliterations: she says she thinks she planted
stair symbolising comfort, beauty, luxury in life.
wheeled in wheelbarrow, beet beans,
• Mother’s stair has tacks, splinters, torn-up
telling the tale, not-nice
boards symbolising hardships, poverty and
Visual images: dung, wheelbarrow, seeds etc. make
miseries in life.
a visual image of farmers’ life.
• Afro-American Dialect: language used is an Olfactory image: ‘not-nice load’ refers to the
Afro-American dialect to depict the mother’s not-nice smell of the dung.
poverty, illiteracy and backwardness. Child-like things: the girl carries the dung in a
• Advice to son: Don’t give up, don’t turn back, wheelbarrow, but throw it on the way when she sees
don’t sit down, keep climbing facing challenges. passers-by; she plants a miscellany of crops; she begs the
seeds to grow.
Project Tiger My Sister’s Shoes
– Satyajith Ray -Majid Majidi

• Ray remembers films seen in his childhood days • Ali gets his sister Zahra’s pink shoe repaired
- films with an Alsatian Rin-tin-tin and a Collie from the cobbler.
Lassie. • Ali enters a bakery and collects some baked
• In Hollywood, animal actors are treated nan, stack them on a cloth and ties the cloth
reverently, they earn equally as human actors, into a bundle.
and they have also stand-ins. • Ali goes into a vegetable shop, keeps the
• In Hollywood, films with even trained ravens bundle of nan on top of a vegetable box, and
have been made possible – e.g. Alfred places bag of shoes in a gap between two
Hitchcock’s film called ‘Birds’. boxes.
• In Bombay, Madras and Calcutta also many film • He collects potatoes, shop owner Akbar
have been made with trained dogs or horses. warns Ali that their credit is over the limit.
• To make a film with a tiger is not an easy task. • Ali comes out and searches for the bag of
• Ray made a film called Goopy Gyne Bagha shoes, but it was missing. He becomes upset
Byne with a tiger in it. and afraid and searches everywhere
• He got hold of a trained tiger with its trainer Mr. frantically.
Thorat from the Bharat Circus Company. • He tumbles vegetable boxes and Akbar gets
• First shooting started in a village called Shiuri. angry, and he shouts at Ali.
• The tiger misbehaved in the beginning, charged • Ali’s mother is bed-ridden due to a disk
at the audience, even the trainer Mr. Thorat fracture.
could not bring it under control, but it calmed • Ali’s father is a worker on daily wages, now
after a while. lacks money and work. Family is in poverty.
• Fixed a tiger-skin collar around the tiger’s neck, • Ali and Zahra are aware of the bad financial
tied one end of a thin-but-strong wire to this problems of their parents, they don’t want to
collar and the other end to an iron rod fixed to give them extra burden.
the ground. • They are afraid that if the parents know
• They took required shots, but later found the about the loss of shoes, they will get
camera had failed to work, shots were dark. punishment.
• Second shooting at Notun Gram village. • They write messages in their notebooks and
• The tiger charged at the audience, but soon exchanges them each other.
became calm. All the required shots were taken. • They find a solution: Zahra will wear Ali’s
• This time camera worked well, shots clear! sneakers when Ali is back from school.

Blowin’ in the Wind - Bob Dylan The Two Brothers – Leo Tolstoy

• The two brothers find an inscription on a

A protest song – anthem of American Civil Rights stone: go into the forest - a river, cross it,
and anti-war movements. mother bear and cubs, take the cubs, run up
Theme: Peace and Freedom are the most precious, the mountain, there will be a house where
but they are crushed everywhere. happiness will be found.
Major Poetic Device: Rhetorical Question – the • The elder brother advises the younger brother
poem is comprised of nine rhetorical questions. not to go into the forest.
Refrain: The lines ‘The answer...in the wind’ are • The younger brother takes the risk.
repeated thrice in the poem. • He finds what the inscription on the stone said
Metaphor: the mountain represents the mighty was true, and he completes all the tasks.
oppressive rulers; the sea represents the power of • He becomes a king, and rules for five years.
people’s protest. • Another king conquers his kingdom, and he is
Symbolism: Roads: life’s path – how much a man driven out.
should endure or experience in life. White Doves:
• He comes back home and meets his elder
peace. Cannon balls: war. Sky: freedom.
brother.
“The answers, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind
• Elder brother has no change, and he believes
The answer is blowin’ in the wind” = The answers
that he lived quietly and well.
to the poet’s all questions are known to all, and they
are available very closely in the air. We need only • Younger brother believes that he has
open our eyes and ears to catch them. something good to remember in life.
The Best Investment I Ever Made The danger of a Single story
AJ Cronin Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• Dr. AJ Cronin was on a voyage back from New • Adichie, born in a Nigerian middle class family,
York. He notices that somebody was watching an early reader at an age of four, started writing
him earnestly. Later he appears with a lady. at seven.
• He knows from his steward that they are Mr. • Read mostly American and British children’s
and Mrs. Johs-S from London. books. Made some false assumptions – she calls
• On the final day of the ship journey, they them single stories.
approach Dr. Cronin. He introduces himself, • First single story: she believed books should have
but Dr. Cronin cannot recognize him. foreign characters. But realised the mistake when
• Then, he said something in his ears, that parted she could read books by African writers like
the veil, his thoughts sped 25 years back. Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye.
• 25 years ago while Dr. Cronin was practising in • Realized girls like her with kinky hair and
London, a sergeant took him to attend a suicide chocolate coloured skin can also be characters.
case. A young man was found in a lodge on the • She had a single story about Fide, visits his house
brink of death after inhaling the cooking gas. once and finds beautifully patterned baskets made
• After hours of strenuous efforts, he was brought of dyed raffia, realizes poor people also have
back to life. He said his story: his name was some craftsmanship.
John, an orphan, found a job in town, • American roommate’s single story about Africa,
engaged with bad companion, gambled, ran thinks Africa only a land of poor and uneducated
after pleasures of life, lost money, borrowed, tribal people, doesn’t know English is Nigeria’s
even stole some money from his work-place, official language, gets shocked when hearing
final gambling, also lost, being afraid of Adichie’s excellent English.
prosecution decided to end life. • American professors’ single story: He thinks
• Dr. AJ Cronin gave him seven pounds and ten Adichie’s character are not authentically African.
shillings, the sergeant didn’t report the crime, He thinks African character should be uneducated
and the landlady offered him a month’s free and starving, they should not drive cars.
boarding. Mr. John is now a social worker. • Adichie finally substantiates: Single stories
• Dr. Cronin sees him now after the incident as a creates stereotypes, and stereo types are not
social worker, and proudly believes that the untrue, but they are incomplete. Our single story
meagre amount he spent for John is his best about a person or nation will not be completely
ever investment he made in his whole life. true, and we cannot judge anything with it.
Poetry
The Ballad of Father Gilligan
William Butler Yeats Pablo Neruda
• The poem celebrates the poet’s ecstasy over the
• The poem is in the form of a Ballad
achievement of his poetic inspiration.
• Tells the story of an old priest Peter Gilligan.
• The speaker is the priest himself. • Depicts three phases of the poet’s poetic life – at
• Settings: Irish rural life and religiosity of the that time when he wished to be a poet, when he
early 20th century. was embraced by the poetic inspiration, and when
• Theme: Mercy of God who has planets in His he could compose his first lines.
Control; Merciful even to the least of His • Theme of the poem: Poetic passion knows no
creatures. The piety of a priest. bounds.
• Style of presentation: 12 quatrains (four-line
• Style: Free verse – no rhyme scheme, metric
stanzas) with a rhyme scheme of ABCB.
pattern, consistent stanzaic system.
• Visual images: moth hours at dusk and dawn,
rocky lanes and fen, night sky with millions • Main poetic device: Personification – ‘poetry
of stars, Father riding fast on his horse. came in search of me...and touched me’.
• Auditory image: Leaves shake and wind • Contrast is applied in ‘winter’ a frozen state and
whispers in the calm night, sparrows chirp at ‘river’ a flowing state, in ‘voice or silence’, in
daybreak, Father’s cry of repentance – ‘pure wisdom’ or ‘pure nonsense’.
‘Mavron...Mavron’. • Visual images: fire, flower, plantations,
• Poetic Device: Simile: “he turned and shadows, starry void, abyss.
died/As merry as a bird. • Alliteration: ‘Something Started in my Soul’,
• Metaphoric: “For half his flock were in sick Palpitating plantations.
beds/Or under green sods lay”=half of his • Symbols: fire: violence and turbulence
people are in sick bed, or dead. Flower: beauty and tranquillity
The Book that Saved the Earth The Scholarship Jacket
Claire Boiko Marta Salinas

• The historian being in the 25th century tells the story of a • Texas School has a tradition of awarding a
Martian attack planned to execute over the planet Earth in scholarship jacket to the class valedictorian
2040, which was forbade by a book! every year at the eighth grade graduation.
• Staying in Mars Space Control, Martian’s commander-in- • Martha’s sister Rosie had won it.
chief Think-Tank and his assistant Noodle controlled the • Everybody expects Martha to win it this year.
operation. • One day she overhears a heated argument
• The Mars’ Space Crew – comprised of Captain Omega, between her history teacher Mr. Schmidt and
Lieutenant Iota and Sergeant Oop landed on Earth in math teacher Mr. Boone.
Centerville Public Library. • Mr. Boone is of the opinion that they should
• Think-Tank intelligently identified their location as a falsify the record in favour of the second student
refreshment stand. Joann as she is an American and daughter of the
• The space crew members did not know the things they found school board member.
there were books. • Mr. Schmidt strongly opposes this suggestion
• Think-Tank interpreted them first to be sandwiches. and believes this is a discrimination against the
• Noodle hinted that he had seen the Earthlings used them as Mexican students.
communication devices. Think-Tank immediately asserted • Upon hearing this conversation, Martha becomes
that they were communication sandwiches. But the space totally upset and disappointed.
crew couldn’t hear anything. • The following day the principal calls her and
• Then Think-Tank said they were for eye communication, not asks to pay 15 dollars for the jacket. He says it is
for ear communication. as part of a policy change.
• Then Think-Tank ordered Omega to take a colourful • Martha goes home all the way crying, and
sandwich from the shelf. She took a large volume of ‘Mother explains everything to her grandpa.
Goose’ • Grandpa refuses to pay the money on the ground
• Omega reads the nursery rhymes as some secret codes, and that ‘if she pays, it won’t be a scholarship jacket.
Think-Tank misinterpreted the flower names ‘silver bells’ • Martha informs the principal about her grandpa’s
and ‘cockle shell’ to be metal and explosives. Got frightened decision, and which makes him change his mind.
himself. • The principal informs Martha that the
• Oop read the nursery song of Humpty Dumpty and showed management will give her an exemption, and she
Think-Tank the picture of Humpty Dumpty. will get the jacket free of cost.
• It resembled Tink-Tank’s shape and he mistook that the • Martha becomes extremely happy and runs back
Earthlings had seen him and they had been behind him. He home crying – but this time it was a cry of joy.
orders to stop the invasion immediately and arranged to
escape to Alpha Centauri, a hundred millions miles away.

Adolf The School Boy My School Days

DH Lawrence William Blake Rabindranath Tagore

• Narrator’s father, a night-shift employee at a Criticises the modern classroom • Tagore doesn’t remember what he
pit, brings home a tiny rabbit. education system, promotes
learned in his childhood.
• He found it in the field with its dead mother learning through growth in
nature. • Still remembers the rhyming lines
and other three little ones.
• Children at home happy and enchanted, but Speaker: A school boy who “The rain patters, the leaf quivers.”
mother opposes, nobody cares her objection loves to enjoy nature’s scenes • Remembers witty Kailash and his
• Rabbit doesn’t move or drink milk, children and sounds, hates classroom doggerel ballads, their rapid jingle
become unhappy, keeps it in the scullery at learning system. of the rhymes.
night. Next morning sees it moving. Style of presentation: poem • Remembers that he cried to go to
• Grows fast, names it Adolf, takes meal with comprised of six five-line stanzas school, tutors advice and slap.
them, mother hates it putting nose in food. of the rhyme scheme ABABB.
• Entry into Oriental Seminary,
• Cats prowls, he becomes worse than a child The season of Earth is
metaphorically equated to the doesn’t remember what learnt,
for mother to look after. remembers the punishment method.
• Parlour is hunting ground, puts pills inside season of the boy’s growth.
Visual Images: buds, plants, • His entry into literature with
house, nibbles hearth rug, scuffles through
the lace curtain which is mother’s pride birds, flowers etc. Chanakya’s aphorisms and
collection, entangles in it, brought down it Auditory images: Songs of Krittivasa Ramayana.
on pelargonium. skylark and other birds, • He remembers the experience of
huntsman’s blowing horn. one day’s reading the Ramayana.
• Finally,decide to send him back to woods.
Poetic Devices: Rhetorical
• Father takes it and releases into the woods. • His sister’s son Satya frightened
Question: how can a bird sit in a
• Many times father sees it peeping through cage and sing? him one day calling police..police.
the nettle stalks, but never responds to his Metaphors: The school boy is • Ran into mother’s room and started
calls. Wildness gains so soon upon its compared to a caged bird, nipped reading Ramayana sitting on the
creatures. buds, stripped tender plants. sill of the door.
The Book that Saved the Earth The Scholarship Jacket
Claire Boiko Marta Salinas

• The historian being in the 25th century tells the story of a • Texas School has a tradition of awarding a
Martian attack planned to execute over the planet Earth in scholarship jacket to the class valedictorian
2040, which was forbade by a book! every year at the eighth grade graduation.
• Staying in Mars Space Control, Martian’s commander-in- • Martha’s sister Rosie had won it.
chief Think-Tank and his assistant Noodle controlled the • Everybody expects Martha to win it this year.
operation. • One day she overhears a heated argument
• The Mars’ Space Crew – comprised of Captain Omega, between her history teacher Mr. Schmidt and
Lieutenant Iota and Sergeant Oop landed on Earth in math teacher Mr. Boone.
Centerville Public Library. • Mr. Boone is of the opinion that they should
• Think-Tank intelligently identified their location as a falsify the record in favour of the second student
refreshment stand. Joann as she is an American and daughter of the
• The space crew members did not know the things they found school board member.
there were books. • Mr. Schmidt strongly opposes this suggestion
• Think-Tank interpreted them first to be sandwiches. and believes this is a discrimination against the
• Noodle hinted that he had seen the Earthlings used them as Mexican students.
communication devices. Think-Tank immediately asserted • Upon hearing this conversation, Martha becomes
that they were communication sandwiches. But the space totally upset and disappointed.
crew couldn’t hear anything. • The following day the principal calls her and
• Then Think-Tank said they were for eye communication, not asks to pay 15 dollars for the jacket. He says it is
for ear communication. as part of a policy change.
• Then Think-Tank ordered Omega to take a colourful • Martha goes home all the way crying, and
sandwich from the shelf. She took a large volume of ‘Mother explains everything to her grandpa.
Goose’ • Grandpa refuses to pay the money on the ground
• Omega reads the nursery rhymes as some secret codes, and that ‘if she pays, it won’t be a scholarship jacket.
Think-Tank misinterpreted the flower names ‘silver bells’ • Martha informs the principal about her grandpa’s
and ‘cockle shell’ to be metal and explosives. Got frightened decision, and which makes him change his mind.
himself. • The principal informs Martha that the
• Oop read the nursery song of Humpty Dumpty and showed management will give her an exemption, and she
Think-Tank the picture of Humpty Dumpty. will get the jacket free of cost.
• It resembled Tink-Tank’s shape and he mistook that the • Martha becomes extremely happy and runs back
Earthlings had seen him and they had been behind him. He home crying – but this time it was a cry of joy.
orders to stop the invasion immediately and arranged to
escape to Alpha Centauri, a hundred millions miles away.

Adolf The School Boy My School Days

DH Lawrence William Blake Rabindranath Tagore

• Narrator’s father, a night-shift employee at a Criticises the modern classroom • Tagore doesn’t remember what he
pit, brings home a tiny rabbit. education system, promotes
learned in his childhood.
• He found it in the field with its dead mother learning through growth in
nature. • Still remembers the rhyming lines
and other three little ones.
• Children at home happy and enchanted, but Speaker: A school boy who “The rain patters, the leaf quivers.”
mother opposes, nobody cares her objection loves to enjoy nature’s scenes • Remembers witty Kailash and his
• Rabbit doesn’t move or drink milk, children and sounds, hates classroom doggerel ballads, their rapid jingle
become unhappy, keeps it in the scullery at learning system. of the rhymes.
night. Next morning sees it moving. Style of presentation: poem • Remembers that he cried to go to
• Grows fast, names it Adolf, takes meal with comprised of six five-line stanzas school, tutors advice and slap.
them, mother hates it putting nose in food. of the rhyme scheme ABABB.
• Entry into Oriental Seminary,
• Cats prowls, he becomes worse than a child The season of Earth is
metaphorically equated to the doesn’t remember what learnt,
for mother to look after. remembers the punishment method.
• Parlour is hunting ground, puts pills inside season of the boy’s growth.
Visual Images: buds, plants, • His entry into literature with
house, nibbles hearth rug, scuffles through
the lace curtain which is mother’s pride birds, flowers etc. Chanakya’s aphorisms and
collection, entangles in it, brought down it Auditory images: Songs of Krittivasa Ramayana.
on pelargonium. skylark and other birds, • He remembers the experience of
huntsman’s blowing horn. one day’s reading the Ramayana.
• Finally,decide to send him back to woods.
Poetic Devices: Rhetorical
• Father takes it and releases into the woods. • His sister’s son Satya frightened
Question: how can a bird sit in a
• Many times father sees it peeping through cage and sing? him one day calling police..police.
the nettle stalks, but never responds to his Metaphors: The school boy is • Ran into mother’s room and started
calls. Wildness gains so soon upon its compared to a caged bird, nipped reading Ramayana sitting on the
creatures. buds, stripped tender plants. sill of the door.
The Book that Saved the Earth The Scholarship Jacket
Claire Boiko Marta Salinas

• The historian being in the 25th century tells the story of a • Texas School has a tradition of awarding a
Martian attack planned to execute over the planet Earth in scholarship jacket to the class valedictorian
2040, which was forbade by a book! every year at the eighth grade graduation.
• Staying in Mars Space Control, Martian’s commander-in- • Martha’s sister Rosie had won it.
chief Think-Tank and his assistant Noodle controlled the • Everybody expects Martha to win it this year.
operation. • One day she overhears a heated argument
• The Mars’ Space Crew – comprised of Captain Omega, between her history teacher Mr. Schmidt and
Lieutenant Iota and Sergeant Oop landed on Earth in math teacher Mr. Boone.
Centerville Public Library. • Mr. Boone is of the opinion that they should
• Think-Tank intelligently identified their location as a falsify the record in favour of the second student
refreshment stand. Joann as she is an American and daughter of the
• The space crew members did not know the things they found school board member.
there were books. • Mr. Schmidt strongly opposes this suggestion
• Think-Tank interpreted them first to be sandwiches. and believes this is a discrimination against the
• Noodle hinted that he had seen the Earthlings used them as Mexican students.
communication devices. Think-Tank immediately asserted • Upon hearing this conversation, Martha becomes
that they were communication sandwiches. But the space totally upset and disappointed.
crew couldn’t hear anything. • The following day the principal calls her and
• Then Think-Tank said they were for eye communication, not asks to pay 15 dollars for the jacket. He says it is
for ear communication. as part of a policy change.
• Then Think-Tank ordered Omega to take a colourful • Martha goes home all the way crying, and
sandwich from the shelf. She took a large volume of ‘Mother explains everything to her grandpa.
Goose’ • Grandpa refuses to pay the money on the ground
• Omega reads the nursery rhymes as some secret codes, and that ‘if she pays, it won’t be a scholarship jacket.
Think-Tank misinterpreted the flower names ‘silver bells’ • Martha informs the principal about her grandpa’s
and ‘cockle shell’ to be metal and explosives. Got frightened decision, and which makes him change his mind.
himself. • The principal informs Martha that the
• Oop read the nursery song of Humpty Dumpty and showed management will give her an exemption, and she
Think-Tank the picture of Humpty Dumpty. will get the jacket free of cost.
• It resembled Tink-Tank’s shape and he mistook that the • Martha becomes extremely happy and runs back
Earthlings had seen him and they had been behind him. He home crying – but this time it was a cry of joy.
orders to stop the invasion immediately and arranged to
escape to Alpha Centauri, a hundred millions miles away.

Adolf The School Boy My School Days

DH Lawrence William Blake Rabindranath Tagore

• Narrator’s father, a night-shift employee at a Criticises the modern classroom • Tagore doesn’t remember what he
pit, brings home a tiny rabbit. education system, promotes
learned in his childhood.
• He found it in the field with its dead mother learning through growth in
nature. • Still remembers the rhyming lines
and other three little ones.
• Children at home happy and enchanted, but Speaker: A school boy who “The rain patters, the leaf quivers.”
mother opposes, nobody cares her objection loves to enjoy nature’s scenes • Remembers witty Kailash and his
• Rabbit doesn’t move or drink milk, children and sounds, hates classroom doggerel ballads, their rapid jingle
become unhappy, keeps it in the scullery at learning system. of the rhymes.
night. Next morning sees it moving. Style of presentation: poem • Remembers that he cried to go to
• Grows fast, names it Adolf, takes meal with comprised of six five-line stanzas school, tutors advice and slap.
them, mother hates it putting nose in food. of the rhyme scheme ABABB.
• Entry into Oriental Seminary,
• Cats prowls, he becomes worse than a child The season of Earth is
metaphorically equated to the doesn’t remember what learnt,
for mother to look after. remembers the punishment method.
• Parlour is hunting ground, puts pills inside season of the boy’s growth.
Visual Images: buds, plants, • His entry into literature with
house, nibbles hearth rug, scuffles through
the lace curtain which is mother’s pride birds, flowers etc. Chanakya’s aphorisms and
collection, entangles in it, brought down it Auditory images: Songs of Krittivasa Ramayana.
on pelargonium. skylark and other birds, • He remembers the experience of
huntsman’s blowing horn. one day’s reading the Ramayana.
• Finally,decide to send him back to woods.
Poetic Devices: Rhetorical
• Father takes it and releases into the woods. • His sister’s son Satya frightened
Question: how can a bird sit in a
• Many times father sees it peeping through cage and sing? him one day calling police..police.
the nettle stalks, but never responds to his Metaphors: The school boy is • Ran into mother’s room and started
calls. Wildness gains so soon upon its compared to a caged bird, nipped reading Ramayana sitting on the
creatures. buds, stripped tender plants. sill of the door.