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  The Wish : By Roald Dahl [Summary and Important Questions and Answers] (The Writer) -------------------------------------------------------------- 1. This story is taken from the short story collection:  Someone Like You   2. Main Character : A Young Boy  3. Setting : A House in England  4. Main Theme :  Fear is the ultimate obstacle. As we read the story, the boy's feelings of fear become an obstacle for him. -------------------------------------------------------------- Short Summary :  This is the story of a boy who looks at a very big carpet with large black, red, and yellow patches of colour. In his imagination he took the red patches to be red hot lumps of coal, which might burn him, the black patches to be poisonous snakes , which might bite him. The only safe colour was yellow one. He decided to walk across the carpet only stepping on the yellow patches. He set this as a challenge for himself. He fixed a reward for himself too. If he could wa...

  (God Sees The Truth But Waits) Main Characters: 1. Ivan Dimitrich Aksionov (The Protagonist) : A young merchant from Vladimir (Russia) who was sentenced for a crime which he had not committed. A good example of dynamic character 2. Maker Semyonich : (Antagonist) The man who caused Aksionov's sufferings. 3.  Aksionov's wife -------------------------------------------------------------- A Short Summary of the Story : This is a story of an innocent person who had to go through a severe punishment for a murder which he had not committed.  The main character of this story is Ivan Dimitrich Aksionov who was a merchant and used to live in Vladimir (Russia) with his family.  One day he started for Nizhny Fair for business, but his wife requested him not to go because she had a nightmare (very bad or fearful dream) about him. In her dream she had she had seen him returning from fair with all grayed hair. But Aksionov laughed at it and started for fair. On his way, he met an...

The Oval Portrait Main Characters of the Story : 1. The Narrator : (Name not given) badly injured, takes shelter in an abandoned chateau (castle) with his servant 2. Pedro : The servant of the narrator 3. The Painter : a man who paints his wife, but he is so absorbed with his work that he fails to notice that his wife's condition was getting worse, and finally she dies 4. The Woman in the Portrait : wife of the painter,  she becomes the subject of his painting, and finally dies at the end of the story Short Summary :  The story starts with the narrator (name not given) who was badly wounded and injured. With his servant (Pedro), he takes shelter in an abandoned chateau (castle) in the Apennines (mountain range in Italy).They settled in the smallest room which was full of many paintings.  He took interest in the paintings on the wall, looking at them in candle light. There he also found a book on the pillow which gave full information about the paintings there.  A...