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Summary of A letter to God

Lencho had his lonely house in the valley. It was situated on the top of a low hill. For there one could see the river and the fields. Lencho had a good crop. But it needed rains badly.

Lencho saw the sky in the north. It had rain clouds. His wife was preparing dinner. He told her that God willing it would rain. Soon big drops of rain began to fall. Lencho went out to feel the rain on his body. He was very glad. He said that the drops of rain were new coins.

But soon the hail rained on everywhere. The field became white as if covered with salt. The crop was totally destroyed. Lencho became sad. He felt that they would go hungry that year. They would have no seeds for the next crop.

But Lencho had a single hope: help from God. He was sure that no one dies of hunger. He had a great belief in God. The following Sunday he went to the post office. He wrote a letter to God to send him one hundred pesos. He wrote “God” as the address.

An employee of the post office showed this latter to the postmaster. The postmaster laughed seeing the address. He wished to have such faith in God. He had an idea: answer the letter. But reading it he found that the writer needs money. It was to keep the faith of the writer. So he asked all his friends and employees to give some money.

The postmaster could collect only seventy pesos. He put the money in an envelope and addressed it to Lencho. He wrote a single word on it ‘God’ as a signature.

The following Sunday Lencho came to the post office. He asked if there was any letter for him. He was given the letter. Lencho did not show any surprise on seeing the money. He got angry when he counted the money. God could not have made a mistake.

Immediately Lencho wrote another letter to God. He put it into the mailbox. The postmaster opened it. Lencho had written in that letter that he had received only seventy pesos. But he had asked for one hundred pesos. He asked God to sent him the rest. But God should not send it through the mail. It was because the post office employees were crooks.

Summary of Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

This is an extract taken from the autobiography of Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom. Nelson Mandela was the first black President of South Africa after three hundred years of rule of the white. His party won 252 seats out of 400 in the first democratic elections in South Africa’s history. In an inauguration ceremony Nelson Mandela said, “Never, never again will this beautiful land experience the oppression of one by another.” Nelson Mandela spent their whole life continuously fighting against the white rule. He was congratulated by several dignitaries and world leaders before the inauguration. It was the largest gathering ever made of international leaders on the soil of South Africa. Mr. de Klerk was first sworn in as the second Deputy President preceded by Thabo Mabeki as first Deputy President and ultimately Nelson Mandela was sworn as the First Black President of South Africa.

On his occasion, an array of South Africa jets, helicopters, and troop carries displayed military force of South Africa. On this special day, the white and the black both sung their respective national anthems. This day was considered as a memorable day in the history of South Africa because of the numberless sacrifices of the people. According to Nelson Mandela, the greatest wealth of his country is its people like Oliver Tambo, Walter Sisulu, Chief Luthuli's, and some others. He learned from these people that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it.

No person is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. So people must learn how to love others. Every human has two obligations; the first one towards his family and the second one for his country. But in his type of country like South Africa, it was completely difficult for a person to fulfill bout these obligations. Nelson Mandela felt that he was born free as he was not born with the hunger to be free. But in his childhood, he found his freedom as an illusion for him. Today the desire for freedom was not confined to Nelson Mandela only but to all the Africans. Freedom cannot be divided, the chains on any one of his people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of his people were the chains of him. The person who snatched another person’s freedom is always locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness. As he is a prisoner of hatred. A person can be called free when he respects another person’s freedom with the same degree as he deserved for himself.

Two Story About Flying

I  His First Flight

In this story Liam O’ Flaherty tells us in detail that how a sea bird named seagull who didn’t know flying at first is made perfect in flying by his mother. This little bird has almost lost all his courage but slowly and steadily with some effort, the bird learns how to fly at the end of this story.

The younger seagull was encouraged several times by his parents to learn how to fly. Even his brother and little sister, whose wings were far shorter than his own fly in front of him and asked him to learn the art of flying but all their efforts were in vain. He used to think that his wings would never help him in flying. His brother and sister have flown away but he failed to turn him on. For a long time, they did not come near him and avoided him but he also could not persuade him to fly.

The young seagull went on watching his parents flying about with his brother and sister. His parents were teaching them how to skin the waves and how to dive for fish. His whole family was flying and taunting him with his cowardice. The young seagull saw his elder brother catching the herring. But the young seagull did nothing.

He felt hungry as he had not eaten since the previous night. He also pretended to fall asleep. But his family paid no need to him. Only his mother looked at him. Her mother was on the plateau opposite him where she was tearing a fish. The young seagull also loves to tear food that away. Then he cried and begged his mother to bring him some food. His mother picked up a piece of fish and went near him. The young seagull was mad with hunger. He failed to understand that's why his mother did not come near.

The young seagull dived at a fish and fell into space. The wind rushed against his breast and feathers. He now could feel the tips of his wings cutting through the air and the soaring gradually downward and outwards.

Once more he flapped his wings and soared upwards. His parents too flew over him. The young seagull forgot everything and prepared himself to dive and soar. At this moment he was flying over the sea. He dropped his legs to stand on the green sea. Then he screamed with fright. His feet sank and then his belly was touching the sea. He sank no more and at present, he was floating on it. His family members were screaming and praising him. So in this way, the young seagull finally succeeds in his first flight.

Madam Rides The Bus

The story is about an eight years old village girl named Valliammai or Valli. She is a very curious girl who wants to know everything. She has no playmates of her own age on her sterrt, so she had none to play with. So standing on the doorway her house had because of the way of her passing the time.

She used to stand on the doorway of her house and watched the bus to the town very carefully. She used to watch every carefully riding and getting out of the bus. She listened to the conversation between her neighbors and people who regularly used that very bus. She also asked a few discrete questions relating to the journey. The last destination of the bus was a town that was about six miles away from her village. The fare was thirty paise for one way. The trip to the town took forty-five minutes. Therefore, one day she decided and planned to take the one O'Clock afternoon bus so that she could reach the town at one forty-five and could easily return home by about two forty-five.

On one fine spring day afternoon, the bus was just on the point of leaving the village and turning into the main highway, then she suddenly boarded the bus. The conductor of the bus was a jolly fellow who called her a find madam. It was the slack time of the day and there were only few passengers on the bus. The bus was a new one and shining. The seats of the bus were soft and luxurious.

The road was narrow and on one side there was a canal and beyond it palm trees, grassland, distant mountains, and on the other side there was a deep ditch and acres of green fields. On seeing the beautiful landscape, Valli stood up on her seat to peep out of the window. All looked very wonderful to her. An older man who had honestly been concerned about her called Valli, a child, and asked her to sit down otherwise she falls. But Valli did not like it. Then the bus stopped and some more passengers got onto the bus. Valli sat down due to fear of losing her seat.

Then an elderly woman came and sat beside her. She has got a big hole in her ear lobes where she is wearing weird earrings and she was chewing betel nuts whose juice could be spilled over her lips at my moment. Valli did not like her. Valli was looking outside when she saw a young cow running in front of the bus. The driver sounded the horn loudly. It was funny for her, so she kept on laughing heartily. Then the bus turned and reached a railway crossing. 

Then the bus crossed the railway station, after that it reached a big market. Then the bus stopped and all except Valli got down of the bus. jBut Valli took a returned ticket. After some time the bus started its return journey. On the way to village, she saw the same cow lying dead on the road. She felt very sad when she saw the dead cow. The memory of the dead cow haunted her and dampened her enthusiasm. Now she was no longer interested to look outside of the window and glued on her own seat, until the bus reached her village.

Then the bus reached the village at three forty and then while getting down the bus, she thanked the conductor. The conductor asked her to come again with a fare. when she reached her home, her mother was awake and she was chatting with a neighborhood lady. Her mother did not come to know about her bus journey.

Coorg

Coorg lies between the coastal town of Mangalore and Mysore. It is a very beautiful place like heaven. It must have come from the Kingdom of God. Strong men, beautiful women, and wild creatures live in it. Coorg or Kodagu is the smallest district of Karnataka. It has evergreen forests, spices, and coffee plantations. Many visitors come to it between September and March. The weather is fine then. The air is full of coffee flavor.

The people of Coorg are of Greek or Arabic descent. The story goes that a part of Alexander's army settled here. Its return became impractical. These people married the locals. This culture is seen in the long, black coat worn by the Kodavu. It is known as Kuppia. It is like the Kuffia worn by the Arabs and the Kurds.

Coorgi homes have a tradition of hospitality. The people have many tales of bravery. Coorg Regiment is one of the most decorated in the Indian Army. General Cariappa, the first army Chief, was a Coorgi. Even today Kodavus are the only people in India to carry firearms without a license.

The river Cauvery gets its water from Coorg's forests and hills. Mahaseer, the largest freshwater fish is found in these waters. Kingfishers, squirrels and langurs are found near these waters. Birds, bees, and butterflies give one a good company here. Elephants enjoy being bathed here by their mahouts.

The Brahamagiri Hills give the climber a whole view of Coorg. A walk across the rope bridge leads to the sixty-four acre Island of Nisargadhama. Buddhist monks from India's Tibetan settlement live in Bylakuppe. One can see them dressed in red, ochre, and yellow robes.

Tea from Assam

Rajvir and Pranjol were traveling to Assam. A tea vendor called 'chai-garam....garam-chai'. They took tea and sipped it. Rajvir told Pranjol that over 800000000 cups of tea drunk every day throughout the world.

Rajvir looked at the beautiful scenery outside. Pranjol kept reading his detective book. There was greenery outside. Soon the soft green paddy fields gave way to tea bushes. Tea bushes spread as far as the eye could see. There were shade trees also over the areas. In the distance, there was an ugly building. It was a tea garden.
They were in Assam, the tea country. Assam has the largest concentration of tea plantations in the world. Rajvir told Pranjol that no one really knew who discovered tea. There were many legends about it.
A Chinese emperor always builds water before drinking it. One day a few leaves of branches burning under the pot fell into the water. It gave a delicious flavor. These were tea leaves. Bodhidharma, a Buddhist monk cut off his eyelids because he felt sleepy during meditations. Ten tea plants grew out of his eyelids. These leaves when putting in hot water and drunk, banished sleep.
Rajvir told Pranjol that tea was first drunk in China. It was as far back as 2700 B.C. Worlds like chai and chini are Chinese. Tea came to Europe in the sixteenth century. It was drunk more like medicine.
Both of them dropped at Mariani junction. They were driven to Dhekiabari Tea Estate. On both sides of the road, there were acres and acres of tea bushes. Women with bamboo baskets were plucking the new leaves from them.
Pranjol's father received them there. They had come there in the sprouting season. It lasts from May to July. Rajvir told this to Pranjal's father. He told Rajvir that he knew many things about tea plantations. Rajvir told him that he will learn more about them there.

Class IX

The Fun They Had

By this story "The Fun They Had ", the authors Issac Asinov has painted a pen-picture of a future world where computers will a major role, sending off the schools and human teachers. He has tried to present his idea through the conversation of two children Margin and Tommy, dating back to 17th May 2157. By their conversation, the authors want to prove that in days to come neither schools nor books exist. Students will be instructed online with the screens. As per description once Tommy found a book on the attic and both of them were sitting to read it. When Tommy told Margie that the book was about school, she became very confused. She used to dislike her mechanical teacher gradually because it was an image that flashed on her screen in the reading room. Tommy then explained to her about the human teacher and school of olden days. But they could not finish the book because Margie's mother called her to her study room where her mechanical teacher was waiting to teach her arithmetic. But Margi's mind riffed with the thinking of old schools with many children under one roof and fun they had played there.