11th-Snapshot, Main points- Chapters wise

 

1. The Summer of the Beautiful white Horse (William Saroyan)

Main Points of the Chapter

·      This is the story of two poor boys-Aram and Mourad of Armenian tribe.

·      Their tribe was famous for its trust and honesty.

·      They were cousins. Aram was nine years old and Mourad was thirteen years old.

·      They never stole or did anything wrong

·      Their uncle, Khosrove, was a crazy person

·      He would say only ‘It is no harm; pay no attention to it’.

·      One day when he was in barber’s shop, his son Arak came and told their house was on fire

·      At this Khosrove roared, ‘It is no harm; pay no attention to it.’

·      One day when Aram looked out of the window, he saw Mourad was riding a beautiful white horse.

·      Aram at once understood that  Mourad had stolen the horse

·      The two boys went for a ride every morning and then hid the horse in a deserted vineyard.

·      Mourad had already been doing it for a month.

·      The horse belonged to a farmer named John Byro

·      One morning, Byro, the owner of the horse, saw the two boys with the horse

·      He recognized his horse by counting his teeth.

·      But I knew the fame of your family for honesty. Yet the horse is as mine.

·      Early next morning, the boys took the horse to Byro’s vineyard and it there.

·      Byro told Khosrove  in the afternoon that his stolen horse had been returned.

·      At this, Khosrove became irritated and shouted, ‘Your horse has been returned. Pay no attention to it.’

2. The Address (Marga Minco)

Main Points of the Chapter

·      The narrator of the story is the daughter herself.

·      Her family had to move out of their country because of the war.

·      Her mother left all her things with a woman known to her.

·      Her mother has given her the address of the woman.

·      It was No. 46, Marconi Street.

·      After some time, her mother died.

·      The narrator came back to Holland in search of her mother’s belongings.

·      But the woman refused to recognize her because she didn’t want to return the things.

·      After her first visit in vain to Mrs. Dorling, the narrator decided to try second time.

·      This time a girl of fifteen opened the door and her mother was not at home.

·      The narrator saw many familiar things in the room.

·      Now she did not want to look these things any longer.

·      Because these would only bring painful memories back.

3. Ranga’s Marriage (Masti Venkatesha Iyengar)

Main points of the Chapter:

·      This story is about Ranga (Ranganathan) who belongs to the village Hosahalli (Mysore)

·      The writer says that ten years ago English was not so widespread in the village.

·      The village accountant was the first who sent his son, Ranga, to the city to study.

·      When he returns to the village from city after his study, he has different views about marriage.

·      When the writer asks him about marriage, he says that he does not want to get married.

·      But the writer wanted him to marriage Ratna, his friend Rama Rao’s niece who was a pretty girl of eleven.

·      She knows how to play the veena and the harmonium.

·      One day while she was singing a song, Ranga came and listened her sweet song.

·      He fell in love with her at first sight. He wanted to make marry with her.

·      After a few days Ratna and Ranga were married.

·      Soon Ratna gave birth to a son ‘Shyama’.

4. Albert Einstein at School (Patrick Pringle)

Main points of the Chapter:

·      Albert Einstein was a great scientist.

·      He is known for his theory of relativity.

·      During his school days, he was considered a dull student.

·      He did not like his school and the subjects taught there.

·      He considered it useless to study subjects other Science.

·      Only the math teacher, Mr. Koch liked him.

·      One his history, Mr. Braun asked him, in which year the Prussians defeated the French at Waterloo.

·      He told the teacher that the ideas were more important than facts.

·      Albert lived in a small room in a poor locality of Munich.

·      Albert’s cousin Elsha lived in Berlin. She often came to Munich.

·      He was also interested in music. He played his violin regularly.

·      Albert became fed up with his school.

·      With the help of his friend, Yuri, he managed to get a fake medical certificate from Dr. Weil.

·      That he was suffering from nervous breakdown.

·      He told his future plant to Dr. Weil. He would go to Milan to get admission into an Italian college.

·      At last, the school authorities expelled him from school.

5. Mother’s Day (J.B. Priestley)

Main points of the Chapter:

·      Mother’s Day is a famous play written by J.B. Priestley.

·      It gives the idea that the mother is most neglected person in a family.

·      She works all the day for her husband George, and children Doris and Cyril.

·      But nobody cared for her feelings.

·      Mrs. Annie Pearson in this play is such a mother.

·      She looks after the needs of her husband, son and daughter.

·      But they do not care for her feelings.

·      In the end, her neighbour, Mrs. Fitzgerald comes to her help.

·      Mrs. Fitzgerald knows magic.

·      They exchange their personalities (souls) with each other and her family members are reformed.

6. The Ghat of the Only World (Amitov Ghosh)

Main points of the Chapter:

·      This play is about Agha Shahid, a close friend of the writer.

·      He was a famous poet also. But he was suffering from cancer.

·      He knew that he was not going to live long.

·      He asked the writer to write something about him after his death.

·      In this chapter, he writes about Agha Shahid.

·      Both the writer and Shahid had studied at Delhi University.

·      Shahid belonged to Kashmir and in 1975, he migrated to America.

·      His brother was already settled there.

·      Later, Shahid’s two sisters also joined them.

·      Shahid spoke first time to the writer about his suffering on 25^th April 2001.

·      The writer had known him long before he actually met him.

·      Shahid’s book of poems ‘The Country without a Post Office’ had made a great impression on the writer.

·      Both of them had similar tastes.

·      They were fond of Rogan Josh, Roshanara Begum, Kishore Kumar and old Bombay films.

·      Shahid was admitted to hospital on 21 May, 2001.

·      The writer met him last on 27 October, 2001.

·      Shahid died peacefully in his sleep at 2 a.m. on 8^th December, 2001.

7. Birth (A.J. Cronin)

Main points of the Chapter:

·      This chapter is an extract from A.J. Cronin’s book, The Citadel.

·      Andrew Manson is a young doctor.

·      He has just begun his medical practice in the small Welsh mining town of Blaenelly.

·      He is an assistant to Dr. Edward Page.

·      Joe Morgan and his wife, who have been married for twenty years ago, are expecting their first child.

·      They ask Andrew Manson for his help in the delivery of the child.

·      It is about midnight when Andrew Manson reaches Bryngower.

·      Morgan’s mother, who is a woman of seventy years, is sitting beside the patient.

·      Andrew Manson has spent a disappointing evening with his girl friend, Christine. She quarreled with him at Cardiff station.

·      He also remembers that his friend Bramwell was devoted to a woman but she deceived him.

·      Edward Page loves Blodwen who is a shrewish woman.

·      Denny is living unhappily apart from his wife.

·      When he was thinking all these, the old man tells him that the time for delivery has come.

·      After an hour of labour, the child is born but stillborn.

·      He gave the child to the nurse and attended the mother first.

·      The nurse places the baby under the bed among dirty newspaper.

·      After half an hour’s terrible effort, Andrew Manson is at last success to revive the child.

·      While going in the street, he keeps thinking, ‘I have done something; oh God! I have done something real at last.’