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Chapter 10: The Sermon at Benares Sermon is a religious talk given by a prophet or Saint. It is showing the jou rn ey of Gautam Buddha from his prince hood to the pious life. He left his palace at the age of 25, when he saw the sufferings of the world, to seek illumina tion and enlighten. He wandered for seven years, here and there, and was under a Peepal tree at Bodhgaya where he got his enlighten. His first sermon was delivered at Benaras as it was the holiest pla ce because of the river Ganga. He thinks that he who wants to get peace should draw out of the expression of grief, complaint and misery. He who has drawn out has become calm, and will gain peace of mind; and will be free from sorrow and be blessed. In the story, Kisa Gautami was grieving over the death of her son and then she reached Gautam Buddha and requested him to make his son alive. Gautam Buddha agreed to it but he asked her to bring a handful of mustard seeds but from a house where no one had lost a ch...

Chapter 9: Madam Rides the Bus This is an insightf ul story of an eight year old girl's first bus journey into the world outside her village. The girl Valli, at a very young age, tries to be aware of the mystery of life and death. The outside world for her is affable and captiva ting but puzzling. She wants to understand everything by herself. The talks of the village people about the town added fuel to the fire and she was determined to go to the town on her own withou t anybody's help. She asked the bus conductor to take her to the town and paid her fare herself. She wanted to get through everything with her eyes. She saw the canal, palm tree, grass land, distant mountain and the blue sky. She also saw great stretches of green fields as far as her eyes could see. She was enchanted when she saw a cow running with her raised tail on the road in front of the bus. While returning she noticed that the body of the same cow was crushed and was bleeding. She was shaken from ...

Mijbil the Otter The story begins when the author is travelling to Basra with his friend. During their jou rney, the author expresses his wish to tame an otter after he had lost his pet dog. His life had become deserted. His friend suggested that he should get one from the Marshes along river Tigris in Iraq. When they reached the target, they found that only the friend's mail had arrived. After a few days, the friend left but the narrator waited there to receive his mail. On receiving it, he went to his room and found an otter with two Arabs who had a note with them. It was a gift from his friend. He named the otter Mijbil or shortly, Mij . Mij took time to open up and get familiar with his surroundings. He was covered with mud. It took almost a month to clean and wash to divulge his actual colour. Mij loved playing with water so he learned to open the tap on his own. He wanted each drop of water to be splashed till the bowl would get empty. Everything was going on smoothly in ...

Chapter 7: Glimpses of India The lesson begins with how the narrator's elders often remembered the time when Goa was under Portuguese. They talked about the importance of bakers which was still maintained in their villages even after the Portuguese have left. They told that they were known as 'Paders' in Goa. The mixers, moulders and their time-tested furnaces continued to serve the people of Goa with their well­ known bread loaves. There are chances that the unique ones did not exist, but their profession is being sustained by their sons. The knock of their bamboo stick could still be heard in some parts of the village. The same jingling knock used to wake up the narrator and his friends during their childhood days who would go run to him with out even brushing or washing their mouth properly. It was the maid-servant of the house who used to collect the loaves while children sorted the bread bangles for themselves. Bakery products had an important place in the c...

 The Hundred Dresses-II The lesson begins with all the students of Room no. 13 having a look at the superb and amazing drawings of Wanda Petronski. Only then, a note is received by Miss Mason from Wanda's father informing that both his children will not attend the school as they are moving to a big city where no one would judge them by their names. Miss Mason was left stunned and she showed her displeasure to the class. Maddie was affected by this letter of Wanda's father. She immediately developed a push for apologizing to Wanda. Peggy and Maddie, the two best friends rush to Boggins Heights with a hope that the family had not left the place. But to their disappointment, there was no one in and around the house. Maddie lost her sleep thinking that she had been a coward as she couldn't stand up to oppose the wrong. She decided that she'll never let anyone taunt someone like that again. That weekend Peggy and Maddie decided to write a letter to Wanda that was init...

Summary Chapter 5: The Hundred Dresses-I The story is about a quiet and shy girl named Wanda Petronski who was a Polish immigrant and had come to America with her family. She attended the school with America n children who found her name to be weird in the classroom because they all had easier names. She was a poor girl and was always seen wearing a faded blue dress. Her classmates used to tease her because she claimed to have a hundred dresses "all lined up" in her closet although she was always seen wearing only one. The ones who mostly teased her were her two best friends, Peggy and Maddie. Peggy was the most famous girl in school while anyone barely knew Wanda. Peggy and Maddie used to wait for Wanda before school even they used to get late. Maddie, a poor girl herself did not like it when Peggy made fun of Wanda. She was afraid that she could be the next. She wanted Peggy to stop making fun of Wanda, but could not collect the courage to face her as she w...