The Portrait of a Lady-1 lesson
The Portrait of a Lady summary is a real story of the
writer’s grandmother. The name of the writer is Kushwant Singh. His grandmother
was an old lady. The writer tells us the story of the childhood that he had
spent with his grandmother. The writer has explained his relationship with
his grandmother over the years. He thinks about her daily activities and how
she grew as a character over time. He mentions her appearance, which assists in
creating a mental impression of her in the reader’s mind.(
Detail summary The writer
recalls his Grandmother as short, healthy and slightly bent. Her hairs were
silver in colour and were scattered on her wrinkled face. She used to walk
around the whole house in white clothes. The writer thinks of her as not very
pretty but constantly beautiful all the time. He compares her calm face with
the winter landscape. During their lengthy stay in the village, Grandmother
woke him up from the bed in the early morning, plastered his wooden slate,
organized his breakfast, and sent him to the school. The temple was connected
to the school. She sat inside and studied the sacred texts while the children
learned the alphabet. On their way back to the home she used to give the stale
chapattis to the street dogs.
A
turning point in their beautiful relationship arrived when they went to live in
a city. Despite the fact that they shared a room, their relationship started to
grow apart. Now, the writer used to go to the city school on a school bus and
studied subjects like English, Physics, mathematics and many more subjects that
his grandmother could not understand at all. His grandmother could no longer go
to school with him to send him. She felt upset that there was no teaching about
God and scriptures at the city school. Instead, he was given music lessons, but
she said nothing. She thought music was dreadful. It was just good for
prostitutes and beggars, according to her. It was not intended for gentlemen.
When
the writer went to a university, he got a separate room in his house. The
common link of the relationship between the grandson and the grandmother was
broken now. Grandmother rarely talked to anyone in the house now. The writer’s
grandmother quietly accepted her loneliness.
When
the writer was leaving on a trip abroad for his further studies, his
grandmother did not get disturbed at all. Rather she went to the train station
to say goodbye, but she didn’t say anything and merely kissed his forehead. Her
lips were moving in prayer. Seeing her grandmother at this old age, the writer
was thinking that it might be his last meeting with his grandmother. But when
he came back home after a duration of 5 years, his grandmother was there to
welcome him back and he saw her celebrate his return.
The
next morning after the return of his grandson she got ill. Although the doctor
told them that it was a slight fever and would go away very soon, still she
could foresee that her time to leave this world was near. She went to her bed
praying and telling the beads till her lips stopped moving and the rosary fell
down from her lifeless hand. To grieve
her death, thousands of sparrows flew in and sat dispersed around her body. All
the sparrows flew away without making any noise when the dead body of the old
lady was carried away for the last rites.
Conclusion
of The Portrait of a Lady
To
sum up, in the portrait of a lady summary, the writer and his grandmother
had a beautiful bond between them and loved each other a lot. The story tells
us how beautiful a relationship can become between a grandson and his
grandmother.
The
Portrait of a Lady Questions and Answers
Question
1: Mention three reasons why the author’s grandma was
upset when he began attending a city school.
Answer
1: The grandmother was bothered by the following:
1.
She was no longer able to assist him in
his studies. He began attending an English medium school, where he was taught
topics such as English, Physics, and Maths. This became a stumbling block for
her.
2.
There were no lessons on God or the
Bible.
3.
She didn’t like the fact that he was
taking music lessons. Music, she said, was just for beggars and harlots.
Question
2: What would the author’s grandmother do after he grew up and started studying
at the university?
Answer
2: His grandmother has changed dramatically since he was a
child. She grew increasingly private. She’d spend her days at the spinning
wheel, praying and feeding sparrows.
Question
3: The grandmother has been portrayed as a religious Christian. What
elements of the story contribute to this impression?
Answer
3: The author remembers his grandma as a
religious Catholic. He recalls her hobbling around the home, telling him
about her rosary beads. He remembers her morning prayers and scripture reading
within the temple. When the author was in high school, he was not taught about
God or the Bible, which bothered his grandmother. The author describes how she
spent all of her time praying during the last few days.
We’re Not Afraid to Die…if We Can All Be Together -2 lesson
We are not afraid to die written by Gordan Cook and Alan East. The story is about a 37 year old businessman who is the narrator of the story. The narrator and his wife plan a voyage around the world just like famous captain James Cook. They get a ship which is 23 meters long and 30 tans wooden-hulled, named Wavewalker.
The writer, his wife Mary his son Jonathan and his daughter Suzanne started selling from plymouth England in July 1976.The initial phase of the three year long journey was from Africa to Cape Town. It was pleasant. While heading east strong waves hit them and their survival became a question. The story tells us about how they fought each day and survived till the end.
Question:1
List the steps taken by the captain
(i) To protect the ship when rough weather began.
(ii) To check the flooding of the water in the ship.
Answer:
(i) In order to protect the ship from rough weather, the captain decided to slow it down. He dropped the storm jib and lashed heavy mooring rope in a loop across the stem. He double lashed everything, wore lifesaving jackets.
(ii) He went to the bottom of the ship to see how the sea water is in the ship.
Question
2:
Describe the mental condition
of the voyages on 4th and 5th January.
Answer:
On January 4, the voyagers felt relieved after
36 hours of continuous pumping out
water. They had their first meal in almost two
days. Their respite was short-lived. They faced dangerous situation on January
5. Fear of death loomed large. They were under great mental stress.
Class 11 English Hornbills A Photograph (Poem)-1
Main Theme
The
poem is a paean to her mother while she was looking at a photograph pasted on
cardboard. The picture shows three girls each holding mother’s hands from the
side. It was clicked on a sea beach when her mother was 12 years or so with her
girl cousins, Betty and Dolly. The sea touched her terribly transient feet
which explain that nature remained unchanged but humans are mortal. The beach
holiday looked like her mother’s favorite memory. Now, the poet’s mother had
deceased for 12years and the poet is unable to explain her sorrow for her lost
mother.
Questions from Textbook Solved
Question 1: What does the word ‘cardboard’ denote in the poem? Why has
this word been used?
Answer:
The word cardboard denotes the photograph pasted on a hard thick paper. This
word has been used to refer to a practice in the past when photographs were
pasted on cardboard and framed with glass front to preserve them.
Question 2: What has the camera captured?
Answer:
The camera has captured the three girls—the poet’s mother and her two cousins,
Betty and Dolly, in their swimming dresses with the poet’s mother.
Question 3: What has not changed
over the years? Does this suggest something to you?
Answer:
The sea has not changed over the years. Its waves are as fresh, shining and
tireless
as
they were years ago. The changeless of sea reminds us of the changes in
human face with advancing age.
Question 4:The poetess’s mother laughed at the snapshot? What did this
laugh indicate?
Answer:This
laugh’ indicated her joy at remembering an incident connected with her past
life,
when she was quite young and free from the tensions and worries of life.
Question 5: What is the meaning of the line “Both wry with the laboured
ease of loss”.
Answer:
The sea holiday and the laughter of the poet’s mother are incidents of the
past.
There
is a sense of loss associated with them. Both are amusing yet disappointing as
the state of feeling comfortable or relaxed is unnatural or forced one. This
sense of loss is quite painful to bear.
Question 6: What does ‘this circumstance’ refer to?
Answer:
This circumstance refers to the death of the poet’s mother.
The Laburnum poem-2 Introduction/ Summary
The poem ‘The Laburnum Top’ is
written by Ted Hughes. It is about a repaying relationship between the Laburnum
tree and the Goldfinch bird. The tree is yellow, silent and death-like and is
made alive by the bird and her young ones. The yellow bird has her shelter on
the tree where she feeds her young ones. But as soon as the bird leaves to fly
in the sky, the tree becomes silent and death-like again.
लैबर्नम
परिचय/ सारांश
'द लैबर्नम टॉप' कविता टेड ह्यूजेस द्वारा लिखी गई है। यह लैबर्नम पेड़ और गोल्डफिंच पक्षी के बीच एक बदले हुए रिश्ते के बारे में है। पेड़ पीला, खामोश और मौत जैसा है और इसे पक्षी और उसके बच्चों ने जीवंत बना दिया है। पीली चिड़िया का आश्रय पेड़ पर है जहाँ वह अपने बच्चों को खाना खिलाती है। लेकिन जैसे ही पक्षी आकाश में उड़ने के लिए निकलता है, पेड़ फिर से शांत और मृत्यु जैसा हो जाता है।
Class 11 th Summary of
Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues
A.R.
Williams is the writer of this chapter. In this chapter is regarding the last
heir of the great Pharaoh Dynasty, Tutankhamun. He died in his teenage after
ruling for 9 years. His death gave birth to a mystery. In the year 1922, his
tomb was exposed by Howard Carter, an Archaeologist. After 80 years, he was
taken for the CT scan to solve the mystery of his life and death through a
forensic reconstruction. This chapter talks about all the possible mysteries:
the curse, where his tomb is lying, his whole life and finally his death. Summary will give you all the facts and
information about the death of Tut.
ए.आर.
विलियम्स इस अध्याय के लेखक हैं। इस अध्याय में महान फिरौन राजवंश के अंतिम
उत्तराधिकारी तूतनखामुन के बारे में है। 9
वर्ष
तक शासन करने के बाद किशोरावस्था में ही उनकी मृत्यु हो गई। उनकी मौत ने एक रहस्य
को जन्म दे दिया. वर्ष 1922 में उनकी कब्र का अनावरण एक
पुरातत्वविद् हॉवर्ड कार्टर ने किया था। 80
वर्षों
के बाद, फोरेंसिक पुनर्निर्माण के माध्यम से उनके
जीवन और मृत्यु के रहस्य को सुलझाने के लिए उन्हें सीटी स्कैन के लिए ले जाया गया।
यह अध्याय सभी संभावित रहस्यों के बारे में बात करता है: अभिशाप, जहां
उनकी कब्र पड़ी है, उनका पूरा जीवन और अंततः उनकी मृत्यु .
टुट की खोज: गाथा जारी है सारांश आपको टुट की मृत्यु के बारे में सभी तथ्य और
जानकारी देगा।
