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                                                     The Tell-Tale Heart Summary         The story, The Tell-Tale Heart was written by an American short story writer, poet and critic, Edgar Allan Poe. In this story, an unnamed narrator tries to convince his audiences of his sanity while revealing many folds of a mystery of a murder. In the beginning of the story the narrator tries to justify his sanity with a claim that he can hear all the sounds from Heaven, Earth and Hell. As further evidence to his sanity, he tells why and how he killed an old man.     The narrator used to live in a house with old man. He loved the old man because he hadn’t done anything wrong to the narrator. He didn’t have...

                                                   Purgatory Summary                The play ‘Purgatory’ was written by an Irish poet and dramatist W.B Yeats. In this play, the writer describes the suffering of a soul in purgatory because of its share when alive in the destruction of an honored house.            Standing at the background of a ruined house and a bare tree, an wandering peddler is revealing the history of the house to his bastard son. It was an honored house in which the peddler himself, his mother and many great people of the nation had been born. The mother of the peddler had married a drunken groom without permission of her parents and had died after giving birth to him. The drunken groom had wasted away the estate and had destroy...

                            Hansel and Gretel    1.     Discuss Garrison Keillor’s Gretel an interpretation and criticism of Hansel and Gretel.        The story, Gretel by Garrison Keillor is both an interpretation and criticism of Hansel and Gretel. It is written in the form of arguments made by Gretel herself, who appears to be bold, argumentative and assertive. She claims that Hansel and Gretel is one sided and biased because it is written from the perspective of a male.   Gretel claims that her brother was not as courageous as he has been portrayed in the story and she was not as weak as she has been projected there. Her father has been presented as a kind and responsible person but infact he was a drunkard and wasted his time watching cock fighting, bull bating and garroting. Sympathiz...

                           Purgatory Summary                The play ‘Purgatory’ was written by an Irish poet and dramatist W.B Yeats. In this play, the writer describes the suffering of a soul in purgatory because of its share when alive in the destruction of an honored house.         Standing at the background of a ruined house and a bare tree, an wandering peddler is revealing the history of the house to his bastard son. It was an honored house in which the peddler himself, his mother and many great people of the nation had been born. The mother of the peddler had married a drunken groom without permission of her parents and had died after giving birth to him. The drunken groom had wasted away the estate and had destroyed the house setting fire on it. The peddler who was 16 years old then, had stabbed hi...

                         The Tell-Tale Heart Summary         The story, The Tell-Tale Heart was written by an American short story writer, poet and critic, Edgar Allan Poe. In this story, an unnamed narrator tries to convince his audiences of his sanity while revealing many folds of a mystery of a murder. In the beginning of the story the narrator tries to justify his sanity with a claim that he can hear all the sounds from Heaven, Earth and Hell. As further evidence to his sanity, he tells why and how he killed an old man.     The narrator used to live in a house with old man. He loved the old man because he hadn’t done anything wrong to the narrator. He didn’t have any desire to posses the wealth of the old man either. But the old man had a pale blue eye with a film over it. The eye, that looked like the eyes of the vulture irritated the narrator. So he made up hi...

                                                           A Child is Born Summary            The essay, "A child is born" was written by Australian writer Germaine Greer . in this essay, the writer presents differences between traditional, eastern society and modern western society in the matters of pregnancy, child birth and child rearing.           There are many good methods of managing child birth in traditional society. Most of which are accepted culturally and collectively. Therefore, a pregnant woman doesn’t have psychic burden of reinventing of new methods. There are many rites and rituals prevailing in traditional society which make child birth an easy experience. The emotional support provided to the pregnant woman by her ...

                                                      The Children Who Wait    Summary       'The Children Who Wait' was written by an American writer, Marsha Traugot   a prominent essay on social science research, it depicts the transformation taken place in American adoption scene and outlines some factors responsible for the transformation.      The essay begins with a profile of a waiting girl called Tammy who at her five and half, is mysterious and appealing. She has so far been waiting at a foster home and has recently freed for adoption. Single parent or two parents, black or b-racial family with older siblings can adopt her now. But if it was the case before 1960, she would be featured as hard-to -place child because she is not white and she is suffering from fetal alcohol...