This excerpt is from the short story “Black Aeroplane”. Frederick Forsyth was the pilot who describes his strange flight experience he had in this story. The story is about a pilot who got lost in a dark cloud during his flight from Paris to London and was guided by a strange airplane that had appeared …
Noodle and Think-Tank have contrasting characters. Think-Tank likes to be called the ‘Great and the Mighty’. He is the ruler of planet Mars but is foolish and arrogant. He orders and commands and cannot tolerate a word against him. He has no intelligence for he thinks books are sandwiches and then tries to justify his …
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Valli was an eight-year-old girl who had a strong desire to take a bus ride. She heard the people around talking about bus rides and silently gathered all the information required before she took her first ride. She saved every single penny possible so that she could take a return journey in the bus. Eventually, …
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Bishamber was a middle-aged man. He was nearly as old as Bholi’s father. He limped while walking. He also had children from his first wife. He had a big house and a shop and also a lot of money in the bank. He agreed to marry Bholi without demanding dowry. But when he came to …
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As Griffin was invisible, his footprints appeared out of nowhere on the snow. The boys saw the footprints without any feet and were amazed. That’s why they started following the footprints which were of Griffin.
The major flaw in Tricki was his greed. He could tackle a meal at any hour of the day due to which, he had gained an excessive weight that turned him to a lazy and unhealthy animal.
Kisa Gotami understood that death is common to all and that she was being selfish in her grief. She understood this only the second time because it was then that she found that there was not a single house where somebody’s beloved had not died. At the first time, she was only thinking about her …
Ausable’s mannerism and appearance did not fit any description of a secret agent. He was different from them. He lived in a small room on the topmost floor of a gloomy French hotel that had a musty corridor, scarcely a setting for a romantic adventure. Moreover, unlike other secret agents, Ausable was very fat and …
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The poet has ironically used the two contradictory terms, ‘noble’ and ‘wild’ for the tiger in the poem ‘How to Tell Wild Animals’. The tiger is a wild beast. It hunts and kills its prey only when it is hungry. Unlike other wild animals, a tiger doesn’t hunt or kill its prey for pleasure. The …
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The tiny gold spots on a Monarch pupa initiated Ebright’s research on cell life. He found out the spots were producing a hormone necessary for the butterfly’s full development. His research was thus able to identify the hormone’s chemical structure.
