Saturday, December 25, 2010
Look at a tea cup is an essay written by Patricia Hampl. There are two major things in this essay. They are: the relationship between a mother and her daughter and the connection between the past and the present. Both of these things are represented by a tea cup.
The tea cup was bought by the mother in 1939 when she got married to American who had been Czechoslovakia. In...
Friday, December 24, 2010
1) What are the advantage of having a single child and disadvantages of having plural children?
Friday, December 24, 2010 Bal Kumar Rai
One child is an appendage of the parents. Having a single has many advantages. Parents can live free and happy life. They can make their child what ever they like. One child is easy to care and bring up. Peace, privacy, happy life and free environment are possible. More then one child makes the family complicated. Happy, peaceful free and private life of the parents is disturbed. They make noise,...
Summary of “Speaking of children”
Friday, December 24, 2010 Bal Kumar Rai
Speaking of children is an essay written by Barbara Holland. It is about the children and its effects on family. One child doesn’t disturb the life of the parents and it is an appendages. The parents can live freely and happily. They can make him/her whatever they like easily. A single child is easy to care and bring up. There are good chances of peace, privacy, happy family and free environment....
2) What is the main theme of the poem?
Friday, December 24, 2010 Bal Kumar Rai
The poet tells about the continuation of nature and life saying the child is the father of man. It means man would begin from childhood and present is the outcome of past. The poem is also about the childhood memory of the poet’s pas...
1) Explain the paradox “the child is the father of the man”.
Friday, December 24, 2010 Bal Kumar Rai
It is a paradox. He means that
man is the outcome of the child. Present is the outcome of past and future is
the outcome of present yesterday’s man. The child grows up and becomes father. The
poet wants to say that human life begins from childhood....
Summary of "My Heart Leaves up When I Behold"
Friday, December 24, 2010 Bal Kumar Rai
This poem is composed by William Wordsworth, a famous English poet. This poem is about the pleasure felt by the poet when he sees a rainbow. This pleasure and happiness has been the same for the whole of the poet’s like. The poet hopes he will still feel the same when he sees the rainbow when he is an old man. When this feeling stops it is better to die. The child is father of the man is a paradox...
2) Why did Mr. Sakota want the picture taken?
Friday, December 24, 2010 Bal Kumar Rai
The woman who visited Sakota’s pharmacy was mysterious. She always came at mid-night. She was strange. Her eyes were mysterious. He thought the woman might be a ghost. He called the photographer to take her photos and study about he...
1) Describe the woman who visited Mr. Saklota’s pharmacy late at night.
Friday, December 24, 2010 Bal Kumar Rai
One storming winter, when Mr.Sakota was preparing annual report, a young woman visited his pharmacy. The woman was thin and her skin was pale. Her hair was untidy. She requested for an Ame for her baby. She has mysterious eyes. Mr. Sakota was surprised and thought that she was from another world...
Summary of "The Loving Mother"
Friday, December 24, 2010 Bal Kumar Rai
The loving mother is a supernatural story. It is borrowed from Japan. Shoji Sakota was a
pharmacist. One night he was working late when a woman knocked at the door.
When the woman came in she asked for only an Ame for her baby. Other two nights
the same woman came and asked his friend to take her photograph. When the
photograph was developed there was everything but no image of the woman. So,
they...
2) What made Armando think that someone was going to rob him?
Friday, December 24, 2010 Bal Kumar Rai
The main thing which made things
worse was Armando’s fear or nervousness. The cashier counted the money loudly.
Many people in the bank looked at Armando as he had worn the hat on backward.
The heavy man who looked at him twice in the bank followed him and got in the
same bus. He put his hand in his pockets as if he were looking for pistol.
Three boys who talked to the fat man got off with Armando...
1) Why is Armando Afraid of the heavy man on the bus?
Friday, December 24, 2010 Bal Kumar Rai
Armando had put his hat on backwards.Everyone is the bank looked at him. A heavy man also looked at him twice. While waiting for the bus, the fat man was next to him. Armando trembled with fear and his heart was beating faster. He thought that the man was following him. When the fat man put his hand in his pocket Armando thought that he was looking for a pistol to rob him. On the bus three boys were...
Summary of "Fear"
Friday, December 24, 2010 Bal Kumar Rai
Fear is psychological story. Armando
is a poor shoes maker. He, with his wife has collected fifty thousand pesos.
They have a dream to buy a small house. Armando went to a bank, in Mexico City to draw fifty
thousand pesos. In the bank Armando became very nervous. He thought people
wanted to rob his money. He was so nervous that he put his hat backwards.
Armando got on the bus to return back home....
2) why did the doctors have a look of surprise on his face when Elda told him that her little daughter died in September?
Friday, December 24, 2010 Bal Kumar Rai
The doctor was called by a little
girl for the treatment of her sick mother. While coming to the house of Elda,the little girl
walked so fast that the doctors couldn’tt talk with her. When Dr.Braun entered
the room of Elda, the little girl ws still there who closed the door, However,
when Elda told him that her only daughter died in September, the doctor had a
look of surprise on his face. He looked...
Thursday, December 23, 2010
1) What did Dr. Braun discover when he went with the little girl who came to his house?
Thursday, December 23, 2010 Bal Kumar Rai
when Dr. Braun went with the little girl who came to his house discovered that the sick women lying in the bed was no one but Elda
who used to work in the same hospital where the doctor worked. He also found
that the woman was suffering from pneumonia. Most surprisingly he discovered
the mysterious fact that the little girl was the ghost of the daughter of Elda who died in the last
Septembe...
Summary of "The House Call"
Thursday, December 23, 2010 Bal Kumar Rai
The house call is supernatural story. It is taking from Germany. Doctor Braun was the famous surgeon. He was sitting alone on the dining room. He was tired due to long operation. He was woken up by the knock at the door. A little girl was requesting the call doctor for her sick mother. Although wife didn't allow, the doctor went with the little girl. She was wearing a cotton dress, old shoes and...
2) What evidence is there to show that the Soto family was poor?
Thursday, December 23, 2010 Bal Kumar Rai
When Roberto Soto knew that Rosa Soto had given away Carmen’s Play things and clothes, he became unhappy. He wanted to save them because he was hopeful they would have another child. They searched the beautiful little doll in the house and even in the village. These evidences are enough to prove that Soto family was poor. They lived in the village and Roberto Worked in the field. These are the additional...
1) How were Carmen and Evangelina alike and different ?
Thursday, December 23, 2010 Bal Kumar Rai
When Evangelina grew, she looked more and more like Carmen. Her actions and characters were also like that of her sister Carmen. Seening this similarity, the priest told that good healed Carmen and sent back in the earth in the form of Evangelina. The difference between them was that Carmen was sick but Evangelina was healt...
Summary of "The Lost Doll"
Thursday, December 23, 2010 Bal Kumar Rai
The lost doll is supernatural story. The main characters in this story are Rosa and her two daughters, Carman and Evangelina. Carman was Rosa’s First child. Carman died when she was four years old. The doctors told Rosa she wouldn’t be able to have anymore children. Rosa she gives the things of Carmen always used to carry. After one year Carmen died. Rosa gave birth to another child Evangelina. Evangelina...
2) Why does Janet want to take Kim to her parent’s farm for a few days?
Thursday, December 23, 2010 Bal Kumar Rai
Janet wants to take Kim to her parent’s farm for a few days so that she can get rid of her troublesome recurring dream. The recurring dream gives Kim a lot of trouble. She is mentally tired and disturbed. She is taken to the countryside by her roommate with a hope that she can get relief in the peaceful environme...
1) Why do some people have recurring dreams? Give your opinion.
Thursday, December 23, 2010 Bal Kumar Rai
Dream is the sequence of senses and feelings occurring the mind during sleep. Some people have recurring dream. However, it is true to some extent that the wishes, fear and the feelings and experiences of various events and scenes are manifested into the dream. Though a person is dreaming in one place, his/her spirit goes to haunt reason of recurring dream is the deep wishes, fear, feelings, experiences...
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