the last lesson :

characters: frank, m hamel

points:
1) lesson on participles
2) the class was as quiet as on sunday morning
3) m hamel green coat frilled shirt black silk cap
4) old men of the village were sitting on the back benches including the mayor
5) order from berlin to teach german in schools in the region of alsace and
lorraine
6) 40 years of service of m hamel
7) french most beautuiful language clearest and most logical and we must guard it
8) then he taught a lesson of grammar
9) then a lesson in writinggarab
10) m hamel was sitting motionless in his chair while teaching looking at one thing
or the other
11) church clock struck 12
12) he couldnt talk and then he wrote vive la france! on the board and the school
was dismissed.

lost spring: (author : anees jung)

characcters: saheb-e-alam (lord of the universe), author
1) he encoutered saheb everyday, his house was in the green fields of dhaka storms
swept their houses and fields away
2) there was no school in his neighbourhood
3) he didnt wear slippers, writer gives an explanation that its a tradition
4) they lived in seemapuri, place close to delhi yet miles away metaphorically
obviously ssdhks. they came here in 1971.
5) 10000 ragpickers livved there, place was devoid of drainage, sewage or running
water.
6) they lived there without an identity but now they had their names on ration
cards whichhelped them buy food.
7) garbage to them is gold, saheb sometimes find a rupee or a ten rupee note, the
sometimes found silver coins too
8) saheb liked tennis and sometimes used the swing when no one was around, he was
on his way to milk booth he now worked at a tea stall
9) he was paid rs 800 with all meals but he wasnt happy he lost his carefree look
as he was no longer his master.
" I WANT TO DRIVE A CAR" ( second part )
characters: mukesh
points:
1) mukesh wants to be a motor mechanic
2) everyone in firozabad is engaged in bangle making its the centre of india's
glass blowing industry, includin mukesh's family
3) none of them knew it was illegal for children to work in those dingy cells
without air and light, almost 20000 childern worked like this they often lost their
eyesight because of this too.
4) he walked with mukesh through the stinking lanes choked with garbage wobbly
doors no windows
5) they entered mukesh's house and they meet mukesh's elder brother's wife
6) it is his karam said mukesh's granny it the only thing they could have taught
mukesh.mukesh's grandfather went blind bcoz of this bangle making shit.
7) savita a young girl in drab pink dress sits alongside an elderly woman and her
hands move meachanically bangles symbolises a woman's suhaag
8) they cant make an organisation or something to sell bangles and all bcoz they
will be hauled up by the police for doing something illegal and there was no leader
9) mukesh wants to be a motor mechanic

Deep water ( william douglas)

characters: author
points:
1) tauthor was 10 or 11 years old decided to learn to swim
2) at a pool at the ymca in Yakima river
3) 2-3 feet deep at shallow end and 9 feet deep at other end
4) author had an aversion to the water, this startd when she went to beach in
california and she was swept away by the waves father laughed at this but she was
very frightened
5) one day the place was quiet no one else was there and was sitting beside the
pool as he was scared to go in alone
6) a boy almost 18 years old with thick hair on his chest wiith ripping muscles
7) he picked him up and tossed him into the deep end
8) he planned to jump when he reached the bottom and come back on the top then
paddle back to the edge
9) made a great spring upwards with all the strength left and came back up slowly
10) he couldnt see anything and only his eyes and nose came out of water, tried to
yell but no sound came out
11) he couldnt get out and water started pulling him in again and his legs hung as
dead weights
12) his lungs ached and head thorbbed he was getting dizzy
13) he went down again and he could see water with a yellow tint, dark water that
no one could see through
14) then terror struck him tht no one can control only his heart and his head said
that he was alive
15) he jumped up again and again but it made no difference he saw light once but
then he started going down again in the water
16) now he felt nothng he was relaxed blacknes swept over hi brain whichwiped out
his fear
17) next thing he remembers is he was lying on his stomach by the pool that kid and
his friend took him to the locker room
18) afer sometime he walked to his house he was trembling he couldnt eat he cried
that night and he never went back to the pool, he feared water
19) finally one october(https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=iggmiF7DNoM&ab_channel=girlinred) he decided to get an instructor and learn to
swim, he did that for 5 days in a week for 1 hr, his old fear used to come back
when the instructor used to relax his hold on the rope wrapped around him.
20) after 3 months the tension began to slack off
21) in april the instructor said now you can swin
22) he went to lake wentworth in new hampshire after he thought he was comofortable
in the pool and swam 2 miles across the lake to stamp act island.
23) roosevelt said " all we have to fear is fear itself "
the end aaaaaa