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This story, Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, is an extract from Nelson Mandela’s autobiography. It depicts the struggle of black people in South Africa. Nelson Mandela took the oath as the first black President after being ruled by white people for more than three centuries on the 10th May of 1994. Nelson Mandela Long… Continue reading Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom Summary and Analysis: 2022
The Rocking Horse Winner is a short story by author D.H. Lawrence about a young boy, Paul, and his effort to make his mother happy by winning large sums of money. The Rocking Horse Winner Summary In the mid-1920s, a woman who lives in a London suburb lives comfortably in a well-furnished house with several… Continue reading The Rocking Horse Winner Summary and Analysis: 2022
The Sherlock Holmes short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Three Gerridebs, is a mystery. Sherlock Holmes gets a letter from Nathan Garrideb, who lives at 156 Ryder Street, asking for assistance in a strange quest. He is looking for someone with an uncommon last name, for it will help him… Continue reading The Adventure of the Three Garridebs Summary and Analysis: 2022
The prose- Two Stories About Flying contains two stories. One is His First Flight, and the second is Black Aeroplane. The first story is about a bird overcoming its fear and taking the first flight. The second is about a young pilot who has a narrow escape from death using a mysterious black airplane. Two… Continue reading Two Stories About Flying Summary and Analysis: 2022
Shelley left his poem The Triumph of Life unfinished, for he died in early July 1822. His centripetal motive was influenced by Petrarch’s poems called Trionfi. In Petrarch’s poems, as in Shelley’s, the word “triumph” takes up the Latin’ triumphus’ meaning the ceremonial dance and the entrance of a victorious Roman general into the city… Continue reading Summary of The Triumph of Life by Shelley (2022 Update)
Taro was a young, able-bodied man who lived with his parents outside a small village near the hillside. He was a woodcutter by profession and very dutiful towards his parents. The low-income family of three sustained themselves only on Taro’s meager income as the parents had grown old and were unable to work anymore. Taro,… Continue reading Taro’s Reward Summary and Analysis: 2022
Patrick, who was a clever little boy, enjoyed playing basketball, hockey and Nintendo but never cared about his homework. His teachers warned him that if he continued ignoring his homework, he would learn nothing and fall back in his semester. Patrick himself felt out of place sometimes because he did not know about the things… Continue reading Who Did Patrick’s Homework? – Summary: 2022
This analysis of Elizabeth Bishop’s “First Death in Nova Scotia” is divided into three parts – context, rhyme scheme and rhetorical devices, and themes. Context: This poem was first published in 1965 as part of Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry collection entitled Questions of Travel. It was also later included in her collection entitled The Complete Poems,… Continue reading First Death in Nova Scotia Summary and Analysis: 2022
The famous short story by William Somerset Maugham, The Luncheon, is about a lady who appreciates his writing a lot. The word luncheon means a light midday meal. The story is about a forty-year-old lady who loves the author’s works and wins his favor, in which she expresses the desire to meet him at a… Continue reading The Luncheon Summary and Analysis: 2023
The story, The Third and Final Continent, written by Jhumpa Lahiri, is narrated by a Bengali man who left India for England in 1964. He spent a few years in London and attended lectures at the London School of Economics. After that, he emigrated to America, where he was offered a full-time job at MIT’s… Continue reading The Third and Final Continent Summary and Analysis: 2022
