Complete Notes for BA/B.Sc. English

  A Conversation with My Father by Grace Paley B.A/B.Sc. English Notes Short Stories Summary and Question Answers Summary This story introduces two generations in terms of writer and her father. The writer represents the new generation and her father represents the old generation. As the story proceeds, we learn that there is a difference of opinion between the approaches of both the characters defending two different generations. We notice a lack of willingness in both characters to accept the idea of reality interpreted by their own observations and exposures. This surely creates a generation gap that is apparent in the story. Her father is of quite an excessive age a heart patient. The practical existence of this generation gap is more obvious when her father asks her to write a story like Russian writers used to write. The writer doesn't like telling stories that way because "it takes all hope away. Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life." Even ...

  Araby by James Joyce B.A/B.Sc. English Notes Short Stories Summary and Question Answers Summary The story “Araby” conveys the idea that the personal feelings of a person and the real world are two different things. First, we do not understand this difference but when we come to understand that, we are disillusioned. Then we are sad. The narrator of the story is a schoolboy and lives with his uncle. He plays with his companions in the street until dusk and then they return to their homes. Mangan is his playmate. He falls in love with his sister. However, he cannot express his love to her. He keeps looking at her from a distance. He keeps on thinking about her all the time. Her image is always before his eyes. He is very intense in his love. Tears fill his eyes but he does not know why. Once she talks to him and asks him to go to Araby. Araby is a bazaar. He promises that he will bring something for her if he goes there. Now going to Araby becomes his business. He takes permission ...

Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Complete Notes for BA English Short Story, Question Answer, Summary  Q. Discuss the theme of the story.   Answer:   The theme of the story is man’s inhuman lust for knowledge and power. Scientists work for power through knowledge. They are ambitious to rule over the rulers through their power of knowledge. They do not bother about the human aspects of their work.   Prof. Rappaccini is a typical scientist. His lust for power leads him to experiment with poisons. The result of his work is a horrible variety of deadly poisons. The poisonous herbs developed by him make his garden a zone of death 2 . Some of the herbs are so lethal that even their smell can kill a man. Breathing the poisonous air of the garden makes the professor and his daughter immune to poison. No poison can kill them. But any antidote can kill them because the poison is the breath of their life. So the professor's daughter dies the moment she drinks a few d...

  The Killer Ernest Hemingway B.A/B.Sc. English Notes Short Stories Summary and Question Answers Summary The story “The Killers” is about the idea that crime does not pay. Criminals try to escape the consequences of their crimes, but they cannot. They have to face them resignedly. Nobody can help them. They are alone and their own. It is five o’clock. Two men enter a restaurant. Their names are Al and Max. They are killers. They have come to kill Ole Anderson. Ole is a customer. George, Nick, and Sam are members of the staff of the restaurant. The two men sat at the counter. The order for a heavy dinner. George tells them that it is five O’clock and they can get a heavy dinner at six O’clock. They talk to the members of the staff rudely. They make fun of them and call them bright boys. After eating his meal, Al takes Nick and Sam to the kitchen. He makes them hostages at the gunpoint. Max sits with George at the counter to handle the situation. Max asks George to tell the customers...

  SHORT STORIES Here are  B.A /B.Sc. English Notes . These Notes are for all English A&B papers for third year and 4th year Students. The notes incorporate Poems notes, short stories noticed, the elderly person and the ocean notes, Modern papers notes, expression and every English note. 1- The Killers The Killers is written by Ernest Hemingway for more detail  and questions you can click the visit button  below Visit 2- Rappaccini’s Daughter Rappaccini’s Daughter is written by Nathaniel Hawthorne for more details and questions you can click on the visit button below Visit 3- The New Constitution The New Constitution is written by Saadat Hasan Manto for more details and questions you can click the visit button below Visit 4- Breakfast Breakfast is written by John Steinbeck for more details and questions you can click the visit button below Visit 5- Take Pity Take Pi...

  Woman Work By Maya Angelou B.A/B.Sc English Summary Reference Context Explanation Notes Maya Angelou: American born in St. Louis, 4 April 1928. Educated st schools in Arkansas and California. Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights, activist, and award-winning author. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. Summary: Maya Angelou, the poetess, has described the domestic routine of a housewife. The routine is mechanical, i.e. caring for the children, mending clothes, mapping floor, buying and cooking food and pressing clothes etc. It is in fact drudgery. No leisure is available to a woman. Even then she is dreaming of ideal life. She longs for rain, sunshine and snowfall. It gives woman strength to sustenance. She wishes to be one with nature and loves to be a part of the mountain, oceans, leaf and stone, star shine, moon glow. She likes to participate in nature around her. She is tired of her daily mechanical routine and re...