Bachelor Notes

Summary: It was a dark night. Whitney and Rains ford were talking about hunting on the yatch. They said that hunting was the best sport in the world.But Whitney corrected that it was best for the hunter, not for the jaguar. Ranford was not interested in how the jaguar felt.He thought that it had no understanding. But Whitney added that it understands the fear of pain and death. In Ranford’s opinion the world is made up of two classes – the hunters and the hunted – and luckily they were hunters.After a while Whitney went to bed and Rainsford was smoking a pipe sitting on the deck.Then he heard three shots and he stood on the railing to see clearly, but he fell down into the sea.The yacht passed out of sight and he swan to the right from where he had heard the pistol shots. He was very happy when he came to the shore. He fell asleep and when he woke up it was late afternoon.He supposed that there must be men because only the human beings use pistols. He examined the ground closely a...

Summary: As a boy Golding found that there were three grades of thinking, but later when his hobby was thinking that could not think at all. His headmaster first brought the subject of thinking before him. There were three statuettes in his study. One was an armless lady in bath towels worried about the slipping of the towel. Next to her, was a crouching leopard ready to jump down at the top drawer of filling cabinet labeled A-AH. Beyond the leopard was a naked muscular man. He sat looking down with his chin on his fist and his elbow on his knee. The statutes were the symbols of the whole of life to the headmaster. To him the lady was the Venus (beauty) of Milo. She was love. She just wanted to be beautiful. The leopard was Nature and was being natural. The man was Rodin’s Thinker, an image of pure thought. Golding was punished for not obeying the teachers. He was taken in the headmaster’s study and was asked to think the thinker. But Golding did not understand him because he was no...

Summary: Once the Buddha was born as a little parrot one stormy day a fire broke out in his forest home. The entire animal there started running to the safe place. The parrot also was flying to the river. On the way he saw that many animals were unable to go out to the safe area. Suddenly an idea came to his mind.He wanted to save them. He divided the river and flew back over the burning forest. When he saw over the center, he shook his wings.A few small drop of water fell down and they disappeared. The little parrot went on flying toward the river and black over the forest again and again.His feet became black by burning. His legs were slightly burn. His lung ached. His eyes were red.But still he went on. At that time some gods were watching all this from their palaces in the sky.They said that the foolish bird was trying to put out the burning fire of the forest with the few drop of water,and they laughed. But one of the gods was worried and came to the parrot, changing himself ...

Summary: In the spring the kings would go out to the flight. But the king David sent Joab, his commander, to the battlefield and he remained in Jerusalem.It was evening and the king was walking on his roof. He saw a very beautiful woman taking a bath in her bathroom.After inquiry the king came to know that she was the wife of Uriah, his shoulder who was in the battlefield.His name was Bathsheba. David sent for her and she was in the palace. He slept with her and she returned home.As a result she became pregnant and this message to the king. The king sent for Uriah came, the king ordered him to go to his house.But Uriah did not go there. He slept at the door of the palace with the kings’ servants.The next day the king made Uriah drunk and asked him to go to his house. But Uriah refused to do so.Then the king sent him to the battlefield again with a letter to jabbing the letter the king had ordered Joab to place Uriah to the forefront of the most dangerous battle,when the Uriah was cu...

Summary: The protagonist (maim character) stood and heard the bell of the church tower. In the morning the bell was heard all over the town and it reminded the people of their task and pushed them out.After every fifteen minutes the clock hit the bell- one, two, three and four. An unpleasant event was about to happen. The hour was quiet near against desire. He stood and counted the quarter strike.It was four. He therefore cursed his luck because he could do nothing to protect himself from the unhappy thing.Then the clock gathered all its strength and struck eight. Four levels: 1.  Literal comprehension: The main character in the brief drama stood and heard the clock tower striking the quarter bells every fifteen minutes.It was heard all over the town in the morning.It pushed the people out people remarking them of their day.As the unavoidable hour was coming near, he stood and counted four and cursed his luck because the unpleasant event was about to take place.When the c...

Summary: We do not very much about the gorilla but we think that we know him well. Our source of knowledge is horror films and adventure books. We don’t have his really satisfactory photograph.We do not know anything about his life cycle and social structure. We know a little about the animal. An eighteen month old gorilla may try to trace the outline of his own shadow.A male gorilla helps a female to climb up a steep rock-step. His love for the female and the family is quite human.The family members eat together and sleep making their beds. A full-grown male rises to six foot and weighs six hundred pounds.He is strong that he can remove the head of a man with his hands. But the female is much smaller and lighter.They have a strong smell, a mixture of human sweat, manure and charred wood. They can see clearly, but they are probably deficient in both hearing and smelling.They appear to be talking to each other in high- pitched voices. When they are in danger the male makes a fright...