Education for all - by Pustak Verma

NEB Grade-11 (English)  1.6 Two  Little Soldiers - by  Guy de Maupassant Part-2 ( Short Stories) Two Little Soldiers: Summary —   The story "The Two Little Soldiers"  is a triangular love story with a completely unexpected result at the end was written by Guy de Maupassant, an author of the naturalistic school. It also includes friendship and romantic love with change, dissatisfaction, conflict, betrayal and jealousy.  The story takes place in Courbevoie, a town in the countryside of France. Although there is no fighting in the story, there is a war going on. —   Two French Soldiers, Luc Le Ganidec and Jean Kerderen  are two soldiers who habitually spend their free time on Sundays away from the barracks, out in the countryside. Their day off has taken on the character of a ritual. Every Sunday, they bring food for breakfast to the same spot in the woods and lie back to enjoy the food, wine, and sights of an area that reminds them of home. On the ...

  Grade-11 (English) 1.5 Civil Peace - by Chinua Achebe  Part-2 (Short Stories) About the story “Civil peace”…       ·   "Civil Peace"  is a 1971 short story by  Chinua Achebe   about the effects of the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970) on the people and the "civil peace" that followed. ·   Nigeria became an independent nation from the British colony in 1960 and the Nigerian Civil War began in 1967 when the Igbo tried to separate from Nigeria to form the independent Republic of Biafra. ·   After enduring three years of bloody battles, the Ibo were forced to surrender in 1970, ending the war. Biafrans suffered a severe famine due to the effects of war. Nearly a million people died of starvation. ·   Chinua Achebe’s story ‘Civil Peace’ is a realistic story which presents the condition after the Civil War. It is about a Biafran civil war and its effect on Nigerian people. q Characters Analysis • ...

 Grade-11 (English)  1.4 The Wish - by Roald Dahl  (Short Stories) Part-2 Before Reading… q Answer these questions. a.      What frightens you? Snakes, spiders or any other things? -           Mostly, snakes esp. poisonous like cobra, Omnivorous animals, ghosts etc. b.      What do you do about frightening things: face them or avoid them? -           As per to situation, face or avoid- Life is in risk, face and if  it is simple, avoid…. c.       Do you have any frightening event in your childhood? Share it with the class. I had a frightening event in my childhood. As   I was going to home from school, I encountered a female ghost with white long hair up to her knee and turned back her feet in the garden of   my village which still trembles my whole body at recollection. About the story “The Wish”… —...