Amritybhav

Human Being can be awakened through understanding and love. The Rattrap Peddle thought that whole world is like a rattrap. In a rattrap, the rat is caught when is attracted to the bait and tries to eat it. In the same way, the world sets baits for people. These baits are riches, joys, shelter, food and clothing. When a person tempted towards these baits, he is caught like a rat. The Rattrap peddler notice a little grey cottage by roadside. He knocked at the door, an old man welcomed him. He was a crofter without wife and children. The old man fed the peddler and played a game of cards with him until bedtime. The old man told him that he had been a crofter at Ramsjo Ironwork.  Now he earned his living by selling his cow’s milk. The old man show thirty kronor( currency) which he kept in leather pouch hung on nail in the window fame. The peddler stole the money.Initially   he was happy to get the money but soon the rattrap began to work. He feared detection and avoided the high...

The author had an aversion for water since his childhood. When author was three or four years old, his father took him to beach in California. He hung on to his father.   But, the waves knocked him down and swept over him. He was frightened and waves created a fear in author’s mind. He decided to learn to swim at ten or eleven years old, in pool at Y.M.C.A in Yakima. A big eighteen-years-old boy threw the author into pool. The author thought that when his touched bottom of the pool, he would make a jump upwards and would came to surface. But, when he went down, nine feet seemed like ninety to him. When his feet touched bottom, he came up rather slowly.  Have You Read?   Lost Sp ring Whenever, he opened his eyes, he saw nothing but water. He was suffocating. He became panicky. He tried to cry but no words came out. His legs seemed paralysed. Instead of coming up, he went down and down. A great force seemed to pull him under water. Only his heart showed that he was alive....

Saheb is a rag picker, came from Dhaka, in Bangladesh. He has no memory of his name. His full name was “ Saheb-e-Alam” which means Lord of Universe. This name is ironical as he is not Lord of even his own life. He leads a life of utter poverty and misery.  The lives in Seemapuri , dirty colony on periphery of Delhi. About 10,000 rag pickers live there. The colony show no signs of development. The houses are made of mud and have roofs of tins and tarpaulin. They have no identity. Saheb works in a tea stall ; gets 800 rupees plus meals ; has lost its carefree look ; no longer master of his own. Have You Read? The Last Lesson   Mukesh’s family works in a bangle factory, lives in dusty street of Firozabad. This town is famous for its bangles. It’s center of India’s glass blowing factory. More than 20,000 children work  in bangle factories of Firozabad. It’s illegal for children to work in glass furnaces with high temperature. They work in dark cells without air and light. He ...

Poet: Stephen Spender In this poem, the poet focuses on the theme of social injustice and inequalities. He presents the pathetic and miserable picture of elementary  classroom in a slum. These children have pale and lifeless faces. They are like rootless weeds which are uncared and unwanted with their disorderly hair torn around their faces. They are depressed and oppressed with the burdens of life and keep their heads down. They have stunted growth. They inherit the diseases of their father.  Have You Read? My Mother At Sixty-Six Some of them do have dreams. A sweet young boy is sitting at the back of the dim classroom. He is dreaming of a squirrel’s game in the trees and probably other interesting things.  The walls are dirty and creamy and on them are hung on donations given by the rich and also Shakespeare’s portrait. A civilised dome found in the cities and Tyrolese valleys with beautiful flowers are also put  up. The map on the wall shows the children, the beau...

Poet – Kamala Das This poem is rich in imaginary, compare and contrast. The poet comments on the feelings of pain one’s feel for the ageing parents. The poet was driving from her parents home to Cochin last Friday Morning and she saw her mother  beside her dozing, open mouthed which symbolises death. Her face is compared to dead body as it is dull, pale, and ashen ( figures of speech is “simile” ). The poet realised with pain that the mother was ageing and her death was approaching. She was unable to bear , the look of her mother so she put this fear of losing her mother away and looked outside the window. Have You Read? The Last Lesson The Tiger King The Invisible Man She saw young trees sprinting ( figures of speech used “personification” ) and merry children spilling( figures of speech used “metaphor” ). To bring out the contrast-  children present an image of happiness, life, energy , zeal, activity and enthusiasm. The mother is an image of ageing, death, dullness, decay a...

Jung Jung Bahadur  also known as Tiger King was Maharajah Of Pratibandapuram. The astrologer spoke out that the child born under this star would one day have to meet it’s death.  At the moment, a great miracle took place. The child,  who was only ten days old began to speak. He asked astrologers to predict manner of his death. The chief astrologer was wonder struck and said that child would be killed by a tiger.  At this infant let out a terrifying growl and said, “Let Tigers Beware! “  Since,  there was innumerable tigers in Pratibandapuram. As in as,  the astrologer prediction reached the Maharaja’s ears;  he decided to kill all of them so that his own life could be safe.  After he killed first tiger,  he became excited and called state astrologer and showed him dead tiger. Astrologer told the king that he might kill ninety nine tigers in same manner but he must be very careful with the hundredth tiger. Once there was crisis and the Ma...

It is the set in the days in Franco-Prussian war in which France was defeated by Prussia led by Bismarck. The French districts of Alsace and Lorraine went in Prussian hands. Franz feared that he would be rebuked for coming late. Secondly, M.Hamel had said that he would question students on the participles.  Have You Read? The Tiger King The Invisible Man For a moment, he thought of running away and spending day out of doors. The birds were chirping at edge of woods; in the open field back of sawmill Prussian soldiers were drilling. Franz wanted to enter school unnoticed. He  hoped that in noisy confusion of school, he would be able to get to his desk without being seen. But, when he reached school, he was surprised to find that there was a perfect calm. His teacher even do not rebuke him. The whole class seem strange and silent.  The old people of village had come to attend the last lecture as a mark of respect to their language and their teacher for his faithful service ...