I AM IN CLASS 10TH...

CAN YOU PLS GIVE ME THE GIST/SUMMARY OF THE FOLLOWING LESSONS

1.SHADY PLOT

2.OZYMANDIAS

3.PATOL BABU THE FILM STAR

 hey amitha.. u can refer 2 dis (i dnt own dem :P)

1) The story is in first person narrative describing a ghost story writer. The writer is urged by his friend to write a new ghost story for his magazine. When he begins to write, a she-ghost, Helen, descends and says that all the ghosts are going on leave and that thye be not disturbed by people like him. She explains that it is actually these people who have been helping all the writers to get new plots to write on. At noon, while he is still trying to work on a story, his wife Lavina brings a Ouija Board home and announces her party with the women from her Book Club. The writer, drowned in consternation by her declaration, tries to convince Lavina, his wife, to drop the idea. However, his wife made him a partner of Laura Hinkle, one of the women from the Book Club who is quiet fond of Mr. Hallock (the author), to work on one of the Ouija boards. Though he tried to resist, his wife paid no heed. When the spirit descended, Laura asked it to tell something, the pointer started moving towards the letters to point out the word 'TRAITOR'. Bewildered, the writer had nothing to say so his partner asked the spirit to explain itself more fully. In response, the spirit spelt 'ASK HIM'. That was when the author realised that it was actually Helen who was trying to interact with them. Unable to explain, the author felt miserable and his wife Lavina, who was already going ballistic threatened to walk out on him. The scene then shifts back to his room when he is in a mournful state and Helen re-appears and asks him of when his wife would get rid of the Ouija Board. However, Lavina entered to bid him bye. She felt the queerness about him and demanded like a boss what was he trying to conceal behind him and thrusted him aside only to see the ghost lady Helen. She was flabbergasted, and then she realised that she had speculated all wrongs that her husband was possibly flirting with Helen of troy over the Ouija Board. Finally the ghost departed and Lavina apologised to her husband.

!!) The poem written by P.B. Shelley in the form of a sonnet. It throws light on the power of time. Nothing can beat the time. It treats everyone equally whether rich or poor, king or begger.

The poet meets a traveller who has just returned from the trip of an antique land. He tells the poet that there he saw a strange statue in the desert. The statue was trunkless. There were two vast legs of stone fixed on the pedestal. The face of the statue was lying near it. It was wrecked and half concealed. t had the expressions of ignorance proud and frown. Through the note written on pedestal, the traveller came to know that he was a powerful king named Ozymandias who could not face the powers of time. His strength, works or ego - nothing had remained. He had been perished by the storm of time and was now standing trunkless in vast desert.

The poem conveys the message that man is mortal. He might be proud of his powers but the reality is far more cruel that everything comes to an end as the time keeps on moving and changing. Immortality is the fact concened with views, time, poetry and goodness only.

!!!) Personal satisfaction is more important than financial rewards, as depicted in Satyajit Ray's short story"Patol Babu, Film Star." The main character Patol Babu realized that personal satisfaction could not bemeasured and weighed by money, and so he acted in the film out of passion he felt toward the job more than because of the money he would make from the job.

In Patol Babu Film Star, Satyajit Ray has highlighted the idea that personal satisfaction is more important than financial rewards. According to him, one does a job because he is interested in it rather than because he can get reward from it.

In the story Patol Babu was given only a minor role in the film, as a pedestrian who was only needed to collide into the main actor Chancal Kumar and uttered a monosyllable sound "oh." Nevertheless, his passion to the job drove him to work hard to give the best performance by rehearsing himself. Eventually, he had done a terrific job and received praises from Chancal Kumar, "You timed it so well that I nearly passed out." and Barren Mullick "Jolly good! Why, you're quite an actor!" He felt very pleased with his performance and "a total satisfaction swept over him." He thought that it did not matter whether he received any payment or not. "What were twenty rupees when measured against the intense satisfaction of a small job done with perfection and dedication?" Thus, he did not wait to collect his payment.

Patol Babu realized that personal satisfaction could not be measured and weighed by money. To him, personal satisfaction is more crucial than material rewards. Ever since the beginning, Patol Babu did not act in the film because of the money merely. In contrast, it was because of his passion towards the job that drove him to act in the film. "I'll be paid, of course, but that's not the main thing." He also knew that nobody would appreciate his performance as he is only a minor actor in the film. Even though Baren Mullick praised him, he would soon forget about it. "But all his labour and imagination he had put into this one shot--were these people able to appreciate that?" However, Patol Babu thought that his own satisfaction was more salient. He had proven his ability and talent in acting and these worked as a sort of motivation to him.

In the nutshell, personal satisfaction was more important than financial rewards and this idea work as one of the main issue in the story.

again m sayin' i own nthng of dis...!! :P

well.. hope i helped....!! :)

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 hie i also wnt answers of some questions

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