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A plot summary is not a recap. It should not cover every scene or every moment of a story. A summary is not meant to reproduce the experience of reading or watching the work. In fact, readers might be here because they didn't understand the original. Just repeating what they have already seen or read is unlikely to help them.
The Woman on Platform 8 is a short story written by Indian author Ruskin Bond. [1] [2] It is narrated in first person by a schoolboy named Arun, and recounts an encounter with a mysterious woman in a train station. [3] The story was first published in The Illustrated Weekly of India between 1955 and 1958. [4]
II.8; II.9 The crab cuts off the heron's head I.5 I.7 84C I.6 IV.7 The hare that outwitted the lion I.6 I.8 84D I.7 II.9 Weaver as Vișṇu I.8 The monkey who died by giving shelter to a hunter I.9 The Brahmin and the ungrateful goldsmith I.9.1 I.9 The guest I.7 I.11 84E I.10 The watersnakes and a cobra I.11.1 The owl and the poor swan I.11.2
"Idgah" tells the story of a four-year-old orphan, named Hamid who lives with his grandmother Amina. Hamid, the protagonist of the story, has recently lost his parents; however, his grandmother tells him that his father has gone to earn money , and he will come back with sackloads of silver. His mother has gone to Allah to fetch lovely gifts ...
The Lesson” is a first-person narrative told by a young, black girl named Sylvia who is growing up in Brooklyn. The story is about a trip initiated by a well-educated woman named Miss Moore who has taken it upon herself to expose the unappreciative children of the neighborhood to the world outside of their oppressed community.
The first paragraph in "The South" mentions Martín Fierro, a character from "The End", another one of Borges' short stories in the same collection. It also may refer to José Hernández's poem "Martín Fierro", which Borges was an admirer of. "The South" inspired and is referenced in the short story "The Insufferable Gaucho" [4] by Roberto ...
In the story, she has an affair with Alcée, a former lover, and is now married; Bobinôt: The husband of Calixta and the father of Bibi, who are separated for the majority of the story; Bibi: The four-year-old son of Calixta and Bobinôt; Alcée: The husband of Clarisse and was Calixta's former beau. He has an affair with Calixta in the story
"The Bet" (Russian: "Пари", romanized: Pari) is an 1889 short story by Anton Chekhov about a banker and a young lawyer who make a bet with each other following a conversation about whether the death penalty is better or worse than life in prison. The banker wagers that the lawyer cannot remain in solitary confinement voluntarily for a ...