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The story “The last lesson” is being narrated by a school boy named “Franz”, who is a very lazy boy, and likes to play. One day he was going to school and was worried about the questions on the participles which would be asked to him by his teacher named Mr.Hamel who is very cranky in nature. Franz don’t like his teacher in the way to his school he saw a bulletin-board full of bad news. He was amazed become usually, when school began, there was a great battle, which could be heard from the near sweets, very loud sounds of children, the teacher’s great Euler rapping on the table. But on that day it was very quite as seems on Sunday. The class was failed with students and empty last desks were filled with villagers and everyone and everything was quite and focused. He was stunned as these things never happened before. The Mr. Hamel told him that an order from Berlin has passed here in which from Berlin has paused here in which from hence formed only German would be taught in the schools of Alsace and Lorraine. He was shocked after knowing this and felt bad for his school and behaviour. He started loving his teacher Mr.Hamel and the books were no more burdens for him and books were just like friends which he never wants to lose. He started thinking about they can’t stop French pigeon from cooing. And got the thing that how precious is French language for them. And started respecting his language and regret to never learn French. And in the pain of this. He started “vive la France!” which means “long lives France”.
The “Lost Spring” story mainly raises the common issue that is child labouring which means children below the 14 years of age work in different places. This story is divided into 2 phases: In the first phase, the author narrates the story of Saheb who is a rag picker who picks gold (some coins) from garbage dumps and is always barefoot. The author asked them the reason behind their barefoot so one of them replied her mother didn’t reach to the shely on which there is his shoes which has no means to become thy are different pairs and colours. One of them replied it's our tradition to wander barefooted. And she wondered that they are making these emuses towards their poverty.
In the second phase, the author narrates the story of Mukes who has a different perspective from others in his community who wants to be a good motor mechanic. He lives in Firozabad which is known for glass bangles hub. Mukesh’s ancestors have been working in the glass industry which is very hazardous for their lives. They work in a dark room with no utilities and high room temperature in which the dust of bangles and polishes hurts their eyes and causes his grandfather blind. And now he don’t want to work in that industry and wants to be a motor mechanic.
The story is about William Douglas that how he lonqued his fear of water. William Douglas wanted to learn swimming so he went to Y.M.C.A. swimming pool where a misadventure happened with him. He was sitting near the edge of the pool then a strong boy with good muscular personality yelled him “Hi Skinny” and picked him & tossed him into the pool. He was sinking down in the water and was planning that he will hi the bottom and will jump-off like a cork and will be flat on it and would paddle with legs near the surface of water. But nothing happened wording to his plans he tried once but failed, he tried second time but he was so frightened and scared, his legs was frozen and he tried to suck air but swallowed the water again and again he was swimming down he had tried third time but he was falling suffocating ad became.
“Rattrap” is a story which shows the quality of world. In this story there is peddler who sees rattrap and one day he was ill of this world and lawed this world as rattrap. He says that everyone is busy in achieving the joy and suffered which acts as a bait or pork, as if someone tries to catch it, they found themselves caught in the rattrap.
It is story of champaran where Britishers used to correct a large revenues from the peasants of champaran. In 1916, Gandhi was attending annual convention of the Indian National Congress party in Lucknow where a peasant called Raj Kumar Shukla came to meet him. Raj Kumar Shukla wanted Gandhi to come to his district champaran, Raj Kumar Shukla was a sharecropper of champaran. He was illiterate but a resolute. Gandhi told him that he had appointment in lawnpore and was also committed to go other parts of the country. So Raj Kumar Shukla followed him everywhere later Gandhi told him to meet in Calcutta on a particular fixed date. So he ent to Calcutta to meet Gandhi. Then they went to patna by train and divided to go to Muzaffarpur first to obtain more information.
Poets and Pancakes is a story from which we got to know about the film makers and their problems. The author starts the story by telling that the Pancakes is basically a brand of make-up material that Gemini Studios bought in truck loads. There were all incandescent lights in the make-up room by which artists feels pain and uncomfortable due to the heat produced by the lights. Authors tells us that Gemini Studio was integrated as lots of people from different parts of the country and belongs from different cast worked there. Mr. S.S Vasan was the boss of the Gemini Studio.
This story is divided into two parts. In the first part the author tells us about the advantages and disadvantages of the interview. The story starts with a view that an interview has become a commonplace of journalism. Some people consider this to be the highest form, a source of truth and in its practice of arts. Some understands this as a intrusion into lives of an interviewee, which diminishes their personal lives. In second part an Interviewer Mukund Padmanabhan and an interviewer Umberto Eco. Umberto Eco was a professor with a formidable reputation as an academic scholar for his ideas on Semiotics, literary interpretation and medieval aesthetics before he turned into writing fictions. He achieved superstardom with his publications “The Name of the Rose”.
The story mainly focuses on four characters Sophie, Jansie, Geoff and Sophie’s father. Sophie is a girl who lives in her own dreams and imagination whereas Jansie is a practical and well matured girl. One day Sophie told Jansie about her dream that she want to become a actress and later she says she will open her boutique and then she says she want to become fashion designer. But Jansie makes her see the reality that they have to work in a biscuit factory later. But Sophie ignored the reality. Sophie feels jealous of his brother Geoff as he got freedom to access the unknown world but she generally don’t gets attention from him. So she started making a fake story to get the attention of her brother. She says she met Danny Casey who was an Irish football player who has green eyes and gentle eyes and not so very tall. She said she didn’t had paper and pen for autograph. But Geoff didn’t completely believe on her story and told to her farther but her father looked at her with disdain and ignored her started talking about another football player. Then one day they went to United to see the football match of Ireland in which Danny made a second goal and led team to the victory with 2-0 and Sophie’s gather felt proud and celebrated the victory. Later she got to know from Jansie that her brother Geoff told her story to Jansie’s brother. And she took promise from Jansie to not to tell anybody about this story as if her neighbour will know this then her father will scold her. And then she sat on a bench and again started thinking about Danny that he didn’t come to meet her got disappointed instead of knowing the reality. And then she started thinking that how will she get the attention from everybody.
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