Complete Notes for BA/B.Sc. English

B.A  B.Sc   Modern English Essay Notes Summary Question-answer Bachelor's Dilemma Herbert Gold Q 1. What do different people think about a bachelor? Ans.       A bachelor is a man who does not make a decision in his life and sticks to his condition of the status quo. The bachelor is not a common man; he goes against the traditions and set ways of life in a society. He avoids the trap of responsibilities and relations. Every member of society holds a different attitude and opinion towards him. A wife idealizes him as a challenge. She thinks that he is a romantic, charming, and dream like man. Unlike her husband, he is an ideally perfect man. She has sympathy with him and thinks of getting a girl for him but when he gets close to her, she tries to trap him in an inviting manner. A husband sometimes glances at him with envy because he is a free man who has not been trapped in the net of promises and desires of family life. Sometimes he pities him ...

B.A  B.Sc   Modern English Essay Notes Summary Question-answer  Nagasaki, August 9, 1945,  Michaito Ichimaru Q 1. What happened to the writer at the time of air attack? Ans.       Michaito Ichimaru is a professor of medicine at the Nagasaki University School of Medicine. As a witness to the bombardment in Nagasaki, he gives us an unusual and striking view of nuclear warfare. He writes about the Nagasaki bombing from the angle of a participant and has selected his details with utmost care to communicate the horrors he had witnessed. It was the month of August in 1945 when the writer was a first-year student in Nagasaki Medical School. It was August 9, when he set out for his school at the usual time of eight in the morning. Luckily, he had to come back because his train had been derailed in an accident. He returned to his hostel room. At 11 am he heard the sound of a B-29 passing overhead. After a while, the air flashed with a brilliant y...

B.A  B.Sc   Modern English Essay Notes Summary Question-answer TAKING THE PLUNGE Gloria Emerson Take the Plunge’ deals with the human s’ desire to do something unusual? How does Emerson maintain the focus on her feelings throughout the essay?  Do these feelings change? Gloria Emerson was a famous journalist. She worked as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times from 1965 to 1972. But besides being a journalist; she was the writer of the first water. It remained her strong desire throughout her life to do something extraordinary. The essay, “Take the Plunge”, is a beautiful description of her personal experience of sky diving. . She focuses on the viewpoint that the youngsters should overcome come to their shyness to go ahead with great deeds. Now it has been proved scientifically that men and women are equal in all respects. The write was the least suitable person for sky diving as she was weak physically. She was not bold enough to do it at all. . She had a...

B.A  B.Sc   Modern English Essay Notes Summary Question-answer WHISTLING OF BIRDS D.H. Lawrence D.H Lawrence is a famous English poet, novelist, and critic. He is known for his love for nature. He was also a great moralist. In ‘Whistling of Birds’, he expresses his natural feelings as well as his fascination for nature. The essay is a vivid description of the change from winter to spring. The writer describes first the cold and dull winter. Winter is a dull season as it kills the beauty of nature. It is the season of death and destruction and is also the season of inactivity. Everything turns yellow and brown in the harsh winter. The birds start dying in this season. It stops the whistling of birds. Death rules everywhere. The transformation from winter into spring had hardly started to occur. The birds were also responding to this change instinctively. They had started singing and their songs were themselves giving a message of the approach of the spring.. Although the t...

B.A  B.Sc   Modern English Essay Notes Summary Question-answer THE ECLIPSE Virginia Woolf How specific is the writer about what she expected to see? Does she suggest these expectations without stating them? Virginia Woolf was a famous English novelist, critic and essayist. She was the daughter of a prominent Victorian critic, Sir Leslie Stephen. This essay, The Eclipse reveals her vivid observation and artistic description of details. This is her one of the representative essays which shows her qualities and attitudes as a writer. The essay in hand describes the scene of the solar eclipse that lasted for twenty-four second. It also projects the excitement of the people of England who were very eager to see the solar eclipse. It was a night in the month of June when a large number of people was travelling to the North. All of them wanted to reach Yorkshire by the early morning so that they could see the solar eclipse clearly. People had...

Pakistan & The Modern World - BA 4th Year - PU/SU PAKISTAN and the Modern World                                                             Liaquat Ali Khan Liaquat Ali Khan was the first prime minister of Pakistan. He was the right hand of the Quai –e- Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. This essay named “Pakistan and the Modern World” is an extract from his speech delivered at the University of Kansas in America when he was being bestowed on an honorary degree. There he advocated the case of Pakistan very successfully. Liaquat Ali Khan was an eloquent orator. He threw light on the reasons which brought about the creation of Pakistan. He also discussed the problems faced by this new born state. Liaquat...

A Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac B.A/B.Sc. English Notes Short Stories Summary and Question Answers Summary The narrator and his woman friend are leaving a wild animal show. The woman wonders aloud how Mr. Martin, the animal tamer, is able to perform tricks with dangerous wild animals. The narrator, who has learned of Mr. Martin’s secrets from a soldier, suggests that he can explain the mystery, but hesitates to do so verbally. He finally concedes, after much begging and solicitation, to write the solution out for her. The next day, he sends her a strange story about a soldier from Napoleon’s invading army, who is fleeing from his Egyptian captors, searching for his regiment in the Egyptian desert. He stumbles into a cave to take refuge for the night. When a female panther returns to this cave after hunting, she snuggles up next to the sleeping soldier and prevents him from leaving as he had planned. Afraid that the panther will eventually kill him, the soldier thinks only o...