READY RECKONER 01-‘NEVER to MISS’ POINTS

READY RECKONER – 1

‘NEVER to MISS’ POINTS

FLAMINGO- PROSE

NO	CHAPTER	IMPORTANT POINTS
1	The Last Lesson	1. Linguistic conquest 2. Changes in the school (guilt and realization) 3. Fraz not scolded 4. Hamel’s attire 5. Elders 6. Blame 7. Bulletin board 8. M.Hamel ‘s farewell and his inspiration 9.French language
2	Lost Spring	1. Title-lost spring 1. Saheb’s story –happy? 2.Saheb’s name 3. Rag pickers of Seemapuri  4. story from Udipi 5. Garbage-two meanings 6. Mukesh’s story –dream 7. Bangle makers of Firozabad 8. hazards in factory 9. Hurdles in becoming cooperative-vicious web  10.Two distinct worlds 11 Saheb vs Mukesh
3	Deep Water	1. Aversion to water-beginning 2. Experience at Y.M.C.A. pool  3. Training-instructor  4. Steps to overcome residual fear(Lake Wentworth- New Hampshire) 5. Narration of fear
4	The Rattrap	1. The idea of the world being a big rat trap-reasons 2. Crofter episode -Stealing of thirty kronor 4. Meeting with the Iron master 5. Mistaken identity-Captain Von Stahle 6. Ch. of Edla Willmanson 7. Christmas Eve 8. Christmas present & the letter 9. Essential goodness in a human being can be awakened through understanding and love 10. title-rattrap 11. Ch. sketch of Peddler
5	Indigo	1. RajKumar Shukla -  resolute 2.. Problems of Indigo sharecroppers/peasants of Champaran 3. Gandhiji’s arrival at Champaran-measures adopted to help the peasants.4. Treatment at Rajendra Prasad’s house 5. Gandhiji’s method 6. Gandhi agreed to 25% 7. Cultural and social reform in Champaran 8. Turning down CF Andrews’ help  9. Turning point in Gandhi’s life.
6	Poets And Pancakes	1. Hierarchy G. Studio2. Office boy 4. Crowd shooting 5. Author’s work 6. K. Subbu 7. Story department 8. legal adviser and actress’s career 9. MRA 10. Stephen Spender-poerty-mystery revealed 11. SS Vasan 12. The God that failed 13. Author’s literary inclinations 14. Satire and humour 15. Narrative style
7	The Interview	1. Writer’s opinion about interview 2. major writer’s opinions 3. Interviewer’s impact and position 4. Eco’s secret 5. Eco’s self-description 6. Eco’s idea of ‘interstices’ 5. ‘Name of the Rose’ – its success
8	Going Places	1. Adolescent hero worship 2. Character of Sophie, Jansie, Geoff  3. Sophie vs Jansie 4.Title-going places 5. Geoff thing  6. Meeting with Danny Casey 4. Fantasy Vs Reality 5. Sophie’s family background

FLAMINGO- POETRY

No		CHAPTER	KEY WORDS		IMPORTANT POINTS
1		My Mother at Sixty Six	Late winter’s moon, Childhood fear, trees sprinting, ashen like that of a corpse, smile and smile and smile,  merry children		Late winter’s moon-comparison Parting words and smile-significance Childhood fear Images to convey mother’s old age vs youthful images Pain of separation
2		An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum	Gusty waves, paper seeming boy, rootless weeds, twisted bones, Sour cream, unlucky heir, tall girl, rat’s eyes, squirrels’ game,  tree room, donations, Tyrolese valley, lead sky,  slag heap, bottle bits on stones, awarding the world its world, far far away from gusty waves, windows, Shakespeare wicked, from fog to endless night, slag heap, open handed map, catacombs		Description of classroom wall What poet wants for them Theme of the poem-title Message of the poem
3		Keeping Quiet	Sudden strangeness, clean clothes, hurt hands, without rush without engines, count to twelve, earth can teach us, exotic, arms, twelve, green wars, wars with gas, victory with no survivors, brothers in the shade, total inactivity, no truck with death, single-minded, keeping our lives moving, sadness of never understanding		Title-significance Appeal of the poet Example from nature What is achieved by keeping quiet Protection of environment in the poem Message-theme
4		A Thing of Beauty	bower quiet, wreathing s flowery band, endless fountain of immortal drink, inhuman dearth of noble natures, pall, cooling covert, shady boon, clear rills,  grandeur of the dooms, simple sheep, gloomy days, unhealthy and o’er darkened ways, its loveliness increases, spite of despondence, the green world they live in		Message – theme- title Beauty-joy forever- how Things of beauty mentioned Endless fountain of immortal drink Definition of beauty Things cause pain and suffering
5		A Roadside Stand	polished cars, selfish cars, sadness that lurks, too pathetically pled, greedy good doers, beneficent beasts of prey, pathetically pled, childish longing, polished traffic, flower of cities, trusting sorrow, left unsaid, city money-country money, our being expand, pitiful kin, the requisite lift of spirit, open prayer		Title-theme Plea-longing Why cars stop Poet criticises city ways Contrast and irony in the poem Promises made to country people Social service agents cheat them What party in power does
6		Aunt Jennifer's Tigers	Fingers fluttering, prancing proud, chivalric certainty, weight of Uncle’s wedding ring, ringed with ordeals, terrified fingers, bright topaz denizens, ivory needle hard to pull,		Denizens & chivalric Ideology that the poem opposes Why hands flutter How tigers are described Symbols found in the poem Ordeals of aunt Tigers after aunt’s death Aunt vs tigers (differnces)
NO	CHAPTER			IMPORTANT POINTS
1	THE THIRD LEVEL			1. third level-medium of escape 2. grnad central-compared to tree 3. description of third level 4. charlie’s wish to escape to Galesburg-reason 5. first day cover 6. Sam’s letter-inference-reason to suspect  7. Discovery from coin and stamp store  8. Ch. of Charley & Sam 9. Title 10. ending of the story 11. what third level symbolize?
2	THE TIGER KING			1. Prediction of the astrologer 2. Tiger hunt 3. Steps to retain his kingdom 4. Hunting the hundredth tiger 5. Conceit of those in power 6. Humour and satire 7. Dramatic Irony 8. British officer-nearly losing the throne 9. marriage 10. King’s death
3	JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE EARTH			Students on Ice programme 2. Geoff Green’s reasons to take high school students 3. lessons learn from Antarctica-present, past &future 4. phytoplanktons-importance of its study (take care of small things…..)5.Antartica significant in climatic debates 6. indications for the future of humankind 7. The world’s geological history is trapped in Antarctica - meaning
4	THE ENEMY			1. Sadao in America 2. Wife,  Hana 3. Sadao’s father  4. Harbouring enemy  5. Moral dilemma of Sadao  6.  Reaction of servants 7. Ch. of General Takima  8. Sadao vs General   9. General’s plan 10. Final help to escape 11. Partiotism of Sadao 12. The American soldier
5	SHOULD WIZARD HIT MOMMY			1. The common pattern of Jack’s stories 2. Other possible endings for the story 3. Jack feels in ugly middle position-reason 4. Adult’s perspective Vs Child’s perspective 5.  Jack’s story of Rodger Skunk-skunk’s mother  6. theme of alienation 7. Jo as a sensitive child  8. Ch. sketch of Jack
6	ON THE FACE OF IT			1. Character of Lamb, Derry 2.Title 3. Lamb’s garden 4. Derry’s change in perspective after the association with Lamb 5. What draws Derry to Mr. Lamb 6. How Lamb tries to make Derry positive 7. Derry’s mother about Lamb 8. Lamb’s story of a man hid himself  9.   Derry’s interpretation of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ 10. People’s reaction to Derry’s face
7	EVANS TRIES AN O-LEVEL			1. Character of James Roderick Evans  2. the governor(good- for- a giggle, gullible) 3. . Preparations for the exam  4.  Jackson and Stephens 5. Rev. S. McLeery 6. Imp. of rubber tube,  phone call, correction slip 7. Imp. of German tutor 8. Golden Lion 9. Evans’ plot to escape-detail 10. Battle of wits
8	MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD			The Cutting of My Long Hair-Zitkala Sa 1. The discipline at the Carlisle Indian School 2. first day at school 3. Judewin’s warning to the narrator 4. Cutting of the hair-the hardest trial 5. The narrator’s mother’s words about shingled hair 6. Indignities faced by the narrator We Too are Human Beings-Bama 1. The fun and games that held the attention of Bama way back from school 2. A man carrying vadai to landlord 3. Untouchability/Caste discrimination 4. Her elder brother’s(Annan) experience with landlord’s men 5. Her elder brother’s advice