English Notes For You

  Unchopping a Tree [A Chopped Tree] 1. Introduction : This essay is against deforestation. It wants to give us a message that if we can not unchop a tree, it is better not to chop down a tree.  Chopping down a tree is so easy. But no body considers how to put back together a tree that has been felled (cut down).  The writer here provides a step by step instructions to reconstruct a tree that has been cut down. But as we start following his steps, we find it just imp0ossible to do the job. It is a very good example of 'pseudo-directive essay' . It means the speaker giving directions of doing some job, but when actually one wants to follow the given directions, s/he finds it to be impossible to follow the directions. So such essays have a deeper meaning than their surface meaning. Exactly the same happens in this essay. The writer has given directions of unchopping a tree, but it is impossible to follow the given directions. So the essay has another message for the readers...

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 ...

  A Respectable Woman BY --- Kate Chopkin 1. Main Characters : Mrs. Baroda : The Central Character Mr. Gatson : Mrs. Baroda's Husband Mr. Gouvernail : Mr. Gatson's college friend, and their guest 2. Plot Summary :  'A Respectable Woman' is the story of inner struggle of Mrs. Baroda.  When she comes to know that her husband's friend is coming to stay with them for a week or two, she didn't like it. Before meets him, she makes a prejudiced image of him, and decides  she won't like him. But when he comes, she finds he is not as she had imagined him to be. She wants to make him comfortable and at home by talking and accompanying him.  Gouvernail is a reserved person, so Mrs. Baroda finds it impossible to penetrate his silence although she honestly tries for it. She feels puzzled by his personality, and decides to leave for her aunt in a city the next morning. That evening as she was sitting on a bench under a tree, Gouvernail comes near him, and sits  beside he...

  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 st...