Ruskin Bond Ruskin Bond (Hindi: रस्किन बोंड, born 19 May 1934) is an Indian author of British descent.[1] He was born in Kasauli (Himachal Pradesh). His father was Aubrey Alexander Bond who served in the RAF during World War II. He had one real sister and brother - Ellen and William. When the writer...
describing the influence of any two friends on the writer. Nostalgia is the keynote of Ruskin Bond’s poem. Lost in reminiscences, the poet traces the passage of time through the most memorable of his childhood years, spent in in the company of friends ( now lost to him.)From among those most dear to...
Deoli ‘The Night Train at Deoli’ by Ruskin Bond is a beautiful story of love, heart-ache and yearning. It is a story of adolescent infatuation presented with great sensitivity. It is based on a chance encounter of two people at a station. The entire action in the story occurred at the train station at...
The cause of death was starvation. He had been dead for two and a half weeks. The story of this courageous and noble man touched many people’s hearts. Among them are people he met on his journey to Alaska and made friends with such as Wayne Westerberg who had the same views of life as Chris, Jan Burres...
by Ruskin Bond . It is the story of Rusty who is a 16 year old boy. After his parents died he was living with his English Guardian. He was quite unhappy with the ruthless ways and strict rules of his Guardian and decides to break-free one day. So he goes to nearby market and makes many friends and...
Critical Approach towards Spiritual Self Portrait Bonds Over Time is a work in progress personal project that I have taken up. Initiated mostly by the Cinema and Spirituality course. For as long as I can remember, I have lived and learnt through bonds and memories, experienced through various journeys...
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02 The Day I Got Lost 1. In the day I got lost there was a man whose name was Professor Shlemiel. Professor Shlemiel is a very forgetful man; he is constantly misplacing and forgetting to pick up his belongings. On his birthday he forgets where he lives so he calls his friends but there all at his...
Summary: Ponders the importance of friendship and the importance of maintaining close bonds. A friend is defined as a person whom one knows, likes, and trusts. This type of a relation is friendship. In every society in the world people have and follow this relationship and support it. In some societies...
A Formidable Bond? By Ahmad El-Mohtadi In most literary texts, a close identification with the characters is crucial to truly understanding the story. “Characters in literature are the objects of our curiosity and fascination, affection and dislike, admiration and condemnation” (Bennett & Royle...
Best Friends In life everyone will meet many people that say they are fit to be a friend, but people will make only a few true friends. A friend is defined as one that is not hostile, or one attached to another by affection or esteem, a favored companion. But I believe friendship is more than that...
Lost In Translation, by Sophia Coppola is a story that takes place in a hotel in Japan where all the skyscrapers are located and where people scurry around the busy streets. Scarlett Johansson (Charlotte) plays a newly-wed who visits Japan with her photographer husband, and unexpectedly encounters Bob...
This story is one that changed all of our lives. It all started one winter me and my friends were all hanging out at my house and my father was telling us a story about Eldorado. Eldorado is known as the lost city of gold in Guyana which is where my parents are from. After the story me and my friends...
Keisha Wallace Oppressed Feelings in “The Story of an Hour” Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” is a short story fiction. The story is extremely short in length, but has a great impact in meaning. “The Story of an Hour” is about the protagonist Mrs. Mallard who finds out her husband has died...
Chopin’s “Story of an Hour” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper, both narrators are repressed wives. Both authors show us women who feel trapped and do not have control of even the most obvious aspects of their lives. Freedom is achieved in very unconventional ways in both these stories, but...
Dakota’s Story Once there was a lovely young woman named Dakota Moss who had a beautiful family and husband named Jake Moss. They were blessed with money from the start, which they were grateful for and thanked God for everyday. They were all so happy and their lives were so great...
Pride and Prejudice is a novel based on a true story. It explores relationships between young men and women two hundred years ago. It is a story not only about a love lost and found, with a happy ending, but it also tells us a lot about the society at the time. The society at that time contrasts with...
“Little Joey” George. The family lived an exultant life filled with laughter, love and an impeccable bond impossible to break. “Mom!” Lilly-Ann shouted, but what really sounded like a howl. Melinda had lost herself in thinking about the life she had shared with her late husband. She didn’t realize how late...
Thomas l. English 1A 9/21/2011 “Aria” In the story “Aria” Richard Rodriguez tells us how someone’s life can be changed by being forced to learn a different language. Rodriguez’s family was of Mexican descent, so the only language that they would speak around the house would be Spanish, but that all...
Science Story “We’re going to have visitors next week!” exclaimed an excited Billy, who was, like all his other peers, still in the last million years of cooling. “By that time next week we will be strong healthy granite!” yelled another (almost) granite. “We have been at this for millions of...
Abby Gibson Comm 1313 MWF 7:30 – 8:20 Story with a point speech February 24, 2016 Topic: Rapunzel General purpose: To tell a story with a moral or lesson. Specific purpose: To always have hope. Thesis: Never give up on your dreams. Introduction 1. Once upon a time, there was a man and a...
emotion that has started as many wars as it has ended? What emotion has had more plays, songs, and stories written about it than anything else? Love, that one emotion that makes enemies into friends and friends into enemies. So many legends surround this emotion, from the goddess Athena and Helen of Troy...
New Historicism in short story “The Diamond Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant I will analyze the short story “The Diamond Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant. We can read and learn the story to make a clear about the new historicism which can be seen from author life and what he was trying to invent from...
The Lost Generation of All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque wrote All Quiet on the Western Front in 1929. Remarque’s novel chronicles a group of classmates who, at the urging of their schoolteacher, enlists in the German army during World War I, then known as The Great War. The...
and Animals Animals, as well as human beings, perform an important role in literature, especially in stories. The relationship between the animal characters and the protagonist in stories has been used in various ways to express emotions or to convey information and implications. For example, animal...
or to hide from parents, boyfriend or friends. But why just drop off their baby and let a financially stable family take care of their "mistake." everyone all have heard stories of babies being murdered by their "mother," or a baby found in a dumpster. A baby lost for nothing. There are thousands upon...
George and Lennie: a friendship burdened. Friendship is a powerful bond that connects two or more people together in an unforgettable and special way. The novella titled Of Mice And Men, by George Steinbeck, follows the life of two migrant workers as they travel down the state of California in the...
country and western. I hadn’t been drinking much but I did feel a little tipsy. I remember standing on a raised lawn at the top of a wall talking to my friend Tom. I was all happy and chuffed with the good fun that we were having all evening. This all very quickly changed when some guy asked me to pass down...
Health Paper I’m going to be talking about a really close family friend we had in Brazil. His name is Alex and he was born September 17th, 1966. He’s a 36 year old recovering drug addict living with Aids. He has told me he has done a lot in my life that he regrets, but he doesn’t regret sharing...
half is my best friend. This is because lots of people are lovers but aren't best friends. Lots of people are relatives and aren't best friends. Lots of people work together with whom they don’t even know. You can appreciate or admire someone, but that doesn't make them a best friend. Do you know the...
Identity Crisis in Adolescence as Portrayed by Erik Ericson in Relation to Stories of "The Catcher in the Rye" and "Ragged Dick" Erikson defines identity crisis as “a time of intensive analysis and exploration of different ways of looking at oneself” (Erikson, 20-27). He studied cultural life among...
“Good People” Kate Chopin writes The story of an Hour using irony to draw the audience into the plot. Kate Chopin strategically writes her story leading her readers down one road then at the conclusion she dramatically switches our worries to something the audience would never have seen coming. Martin...
In most coming of age stories, the main character is faced with a problem. After solving the problem (and finding fairy tale type love along the way) Esther finds herself a changed person, and is ready to take on life. However, the Bell Jar is unlike this. In The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Esther Greenwood...
West Side Story On Tuesday 6th January 2009, my G.C.S.E Drama group were invited to see the spectacular production of ‘West Side Story’ at the Millennium Centre, Cardiff. It was a musical production, eagerly anticipated by myself, as I have heard about this show and heard lots of positive comments...
mistake, similar to what Timothy Findley portrayed in the short story “War”. In this short story there is a boy named Neil who is a young 10 year old visiting a friend, Arthur Robertson over the summer in Muskoka Ontario. Throughout the story Neil shares his experiences of 1940 he has when Neil’s father...
they see life, I will be using The Novel "The story of Tom Brennan" By J.C Burke which shows how Tom, “the protagonist”, struggles to cope with his past. I will also be using, The Television series, “Rescue Me” which refers to the way someone can be lost and have to learn to stand on their own two feet...
A COLLECTION OF SHORT CONTEMPORARY STORIES Featuring the Novella: INTO TILOVIA By James W. Nelson Dedicated to all my best friends; you know who you are. INTRODUCTION These are stories taken from not only imagination but personal experience with a whole lot of imagination added. Dozens...
mind. The possibility to forgiveness is a tough journey, especially when you have lost a loved one/s to criminals who were once neighbors and friends at one point of time. In the book, “As We Forgive,” there are stories of unimaginable horror which took place in Rwanda of 1994. The Tutsi people were being...
of nothing in the world that is either nobler or rarer than a devoted friendship.' 'And what, pray, is your idea of the duties of a devoted friend?' asked a Green Linnet, who was sitting in a willow-tree hard by, and had overheard the conversation. 'Yes, that is just what I want to know...
to join the army by their teacher Kantorek. They formed a tight bond at the beginning which lasted until the last of them died. Through the course of the war Paul also meets Stanislaus Katczinsky, or Kat, and they become best friends. Even when on leave Paul feels alone even amongst his family. He...
15. The Ailing Planet: The Green Movement’s Role: Nani Palkhivala IV. Hues: An Anthology of Short Stories: Barry Antunis, Anupam Banerjee, S. Thomas & Sumana Saha The following stories are to be studied: 1. The Portrait of a Lady: Khushwant Singh 2. Growing Up: Joyce Cary 3. The Rattrap:...
depicts a small puppy that lives on a farm with his horse that is his best friend. The puppy is young and very curious, he wanders off into a truck, the door behind him closes and he is taken into the city. He is cold in the rain and lost. He wanders through the woods as his owner is searching high and wide...
I. They did not return to England until the later half of the seventeenth century. Jews were also viewed as devils by Elizabeathan audiences. Old stories portrayed them as "blood-thirsty murders" that poisoned wells and killed Christian children for their bizarre Passover ritu! als. These were the stereotypes...
not want me to see my friends, never mind go out on a Friday night. Mike wanted me to devote all of my time to his son because he looked at me as a parental figure and even called me ‘mama’ as a confused baby. The power Mike had over me was not fair and I was losing my close friends. The lack of trust eventually...
My Son the Fanatic In the short story “My Son the Fanatic” written by Hanif Kureishi (published in 1994), we meet Parvez. Parvez and his family are immigrants from Pakistan. They have left their religion; their old habits and their old life back in Pakistan and are currently living in England. Parvez...
The story of math in my life Math and I have a very strange relationship, almost like a love/hate relationship. We’ve been in each other’s lives forever but we just can’t seem to get along. So let me take you back to the day when we first met (at least according to my memory). I was around four years...
the open windows; a fast and excited discussion was going on in the front room that the blond lad couldn’t quite understand. ”Feliks eating with friends, let’s go quietly.” With the tanned child acting as lead sleuth, the boys crept past the sitting-room, down the hallway and almost to the kitchen...
Name : Nur Amira Mirza bt Nazar ( Group A ) Story title : Lost in the wilderness Rain slipped between the branches and settled on my skin. The pine needles were soft beneath my sore feet. I heard the water splash onto the puddles all around, noticed the evening...
his sister that he wants a male friend to come out to keep him company. The captain is soon interrupted by the sight of a man on the ice riding a dog-sled. The man then boards the ship. This comes at the perfect time because it seems that the captain’s wish for a friend to come has come true. But who...
SYNOPSIS: he play opens in Venice, where the merchant Antonio tells his friends, "I know not why I am so sad." His friends—Salerio and Salanio, and then Lorenzo and Gratiano—try to cheer him up, but with no success. Antonio’s close friend Bassanio informs him that he intends to seek an heiress’s hand in...
Great Gatsby is a story told by Nick Carraway, who was once Gatsby's neighbor, and he tells the story sometime after 1922, when the incidents that fill the book take place. As the story opens, Nick has just moved from the Midwest to West Egg, Long Island, seeking his fortune as a bond salesman. Shortly...
in this novel who writes about the experiences he has during the summer of 1922. Nick moves to New York from the Mid-West, in pursuit of a job as a bond dealer. Nick’s main objective is to determine the truth behind the “American Dream”. Instead of a ascertaining the ramifications of the “American...
is shown in many of Oscar Wilde’s short stories. He developed this theme as a reaction towards his age which lacked, in his view, moral as well as human values. For this reason, he chooses a bird to be his tragic hero. He epitomizes this idea in such short stories like “The Nightingale and the Rose” and...
Hardy Stories The three Thomas Hardy short stories I am writing about are: • The History of The Hardcomes • The Melancholy Hussar • The Winters and The Palmleys In the short stories written by Thomas Hardy the historical and social context is defined and similar in each story. The...
old style school. But the 7 rooms still remain. They just use many light bulb let the students don’t feel so bad. However, all sorts of strange story spread around all the time. They said: After 12 PM, the statue Newton stands in the 1st classroom the eyes of which should stare to the right...
but he refrains from using these, believing that prayer, without medicine, is a better remedy. Silas loses his faith in a benevolent God when his friend William Dane falsely accuses him of stealing church funds. After being accused, he believes God will reveal his innocence, but when the church draws...
paper will show how Jeffrey Dahmer's complete metamorphosis from a likeable man into a mass murderer can be explained by contemporary social control bond theory, supported through the review of an article in the New York Times entitled: "17 Killed, and a Life is Searched for Clues" (Barron and Tabor,...
defined by visual narratives on TV and in the movies that we can hardly imagine a world without images. Sometimes quality is judged solely based on a stories actions. In this image drenched society we sometimes struggle to appreciate and celebrate books and movies where the quality arises not exclusively...
soldiers broke into thousands of Japanese homes to check for weapons and made arrests to anyone who resisted. After years of settling in and making friends, the Japanese in America had to pack their bags and leave in a matter of hours. Their lives changed from peace and friendliness to being hated and...
transporting a large assortment of metallic minerals, which were highly reactive to other forces of magnetism. Unexpectedly, the boat encounters the island of LOST. Being that the island has unique magnetic properties, the magnetic materials on the boat “react” with the magnetic forces on the island, and the boat...