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The Fear  [A Psychological Story] Short Summary : This story deals with one aspect of human psychology. This story presents an incident of a man's life which shows how people generally behave when they get nervous, or when they get panicked (state of being scared). The main character of this story is Armando Gonzalez. His wife's name was Eva. He lived in the Maxico city. He was an economically weak person. He had a big family to look after. He himself, his wife, six children and a mother in law. He worked in a shoe shop. Eva also earned a little by taking care of children while their mothers worked outside. The greatest dream of Gonzalez and his wife was to have a house of their own. For this purpose they had saved some money (fifty thousand pesos)  little by little in the past twenty years  with a great labour and difficulty. One day he found a house fitted to his needs and within the limit of his budget. He talked and finalized the deal, and now he needed money for the paymen

  Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening [By -- Robert Frost] 1. Summary :  One evening the speaker was on his journey to his destination (the place to which some one is going/ goal). He was riding through a deep dark forest. The weather too wasn't good. There was a snow fall. The woods owner used to live in a nearby village, and the speaker knew him well. But he wasn't to meet the speaker at that time because he even didn't know that the speaker was there at time in such a worst time. It was the darkest and windy evening of the year with snow fall. Even the lake was frozen in extreme cold.  The speaker was attracted by the beauty of the woods and the snowfall. He stopped his horse and started enjoying the beauty there. But his horse thought it to be quite strange to stop in the cold, dark and lonely (solitary, uninhabited) jungle, even without a farmhouse to stay there at night. He gave a shake to his harness bells to warn his master that it was a mistake on his part to stop

  [An one Act Play :  By --Fritz Karinthy] 1. Some Points At a Glance A. Introduction : This one act play is about a man of about forty years, who goes back to his school after eighteen years with a claim to have his tuition fees refunded because he thinks that the school did not teach him any thing worth, because he could not secure any job in his life. The school education had only made him a worthless ignorant person.  At first the Principal was not ready for it, but later all the teachers gave him a re-examination, and they outsmarted him in it. Finally, he was collared-out from the Principal's office without being given any refund. B. Genre : One Act Play/ Satire, it is a satire on the modern education system C. Main Characters : Wasserkopf (He is the central character who comes to his school after eighteen years because he thinks that he learnt nothing form his school) The Principal The Servant The Mathematics Master (Another very important character , who leads through the