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  The Nightmare Life Without Fuel [The World Energy Crisis] Background of Writing the Essay: (Americans are so used to limitless energy supplies that they can hardly imagine what life might be like when the fuel really starts to run out.  So TIME asked Science Writer Isaac Asimov for his vision of an energy-poor society that might exist at the end of the 20th century.  The following portrait, Asimov noted, "need not proved to be accurate. It is the picture of the worst, of waste continuing, of oil running out, of nothing in its place, of world population continuing to rise ....) Short Summary:  As the title itself suggests, the essay deals with one of the major problems of the contemporary world. That is, the fast consumption of the fuel resources and the future fuel crisis. The writer has tried to picture the future of the world, when we will have consumed all the natural and traditional resources of fuel such as diesel, petrol, coal, firewood , kerosene oil etc. Th...

  The House Call ( House call is an occasion when a doctor or other health worker comes to patient's home usually to give treatment .) ----------------------------------- Introduction of the Story :   The House Call is a supernatural story . In it, we find  the spirit  (ghost) of a little girl going to the house of a doctor for a house call for the treatment of her mother. She brings him to her apartment . Finally the doctor comes to realize that the girl who had called him was in fact the spirit of the girl. -------------------------------------------------------------- Main Characters of the Story : Dr. Emil Braun, a famous surgeon of Berlin Elda , The patient Adelheid , Daughter of Elda. Her mother used to call her Heide , in fact the spirit who called the doctor for her mother's treatment. -------------------------------------------------------------- Short Summary :  The main character of this story is the ghost of a little   girl, Heide. ...

The Lost Doll Main Characters of the Story : Rosa Soto: ( Mother ) Roberto Soto: ( Father ) Carmen: Elder daughter Evangelina: Younger daughter (Evangelina is the reincarnation of Carmen) Short Introduction: The Lost Doll is a story of  reincarnation. Reincarnation is belief that the spirit or soul of a dead person returns to life in another's body. In simple English we can call it to be 'rebirth '.  In this story Evangelina is the reincarnation (rebirth ) of Carmen. Carmen dies first, and then she takes birth as Evangelina in the same family. This tells us why Evangelina 'remembers' being sick, and why she knows where the lost doll was hidden. (Does Reincarnation mean soul exiting from one door and entering from another door ?)   Short Summary :  This is a story of incarnation. The main characters of this story are Roberto Soto, Rosa Soto, and their two daughters: Carmen and Evangelina. Carmen was their first child. The little girl was very bright...

The Recurring Dream (The Recurring Dream) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- What is a recurring dream? A recurring dream is a  dream that repeats more than once . Such  a dream repeatedly comes back to a person.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Main Characters of the Story : Kim : the central character Janet : Kim's friend and room-mate An old man In this story both Kim and the old man see each other in their recurring dreams. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Short Summary : This is a story about a mysterious recurring dream which haunts Kim, the main character of this story. Kim was a young girl of 25 years . She was a normal young girl working in a large company in London, where she used to live with her room partner Janet. She used to have a recurring dream . In her dream she used to be on a country road where she used to find a lane with a whi...

The Gardener ( Gardener : Working with Flowers) Main Characters: Helen Turrel (An unwed mother/ Michael's mother) Michael Turrel Priest in the village The Gardener ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Short Summary: The Gardener is the story of Helen Turrel .She was an unwed mother. When she became pregnant, she was ashamed because she was not married. She didn't want any body to know anything about it. So she left her village in England and went to France to give birth. But she told her villagers that she was going to France for her treatment. When she returned to England with her son, she told several lies about the baby to the villagers. She told that the boy the son of her brother (George ), who lived in India. The boy took birth in India after a few weeks George lost his life in a horse fall. So she took responsibility of the child . She gave some money to the child's mother and brought the child with her. The child w...