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The Summer of The Beautiful White Horse

The document discusses the importance of holiday homework. It begins by acknowledging that while students look forward to holidays without school, they must still complete holiday homework assignments. The first reason provided is that holiday homework helps students keep in touch with their schoolwork over the long break. Secondly, it teaches students to balance their time and take responsibility for their work. Additionally, holiday homework topics often provide an opportunity for research and learning new things. It also allows students to revise what they've learned and identify areas they need more understanding. Projects assigned as holiday homework help students become more independent and able to deal with problems. However, the document notes homework also has some drawbacks.

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The Summer of The Beautiful White Horse

The document discusses the importance of holiday homework. It begins by acknowledging that while students look forward to holidays without school, they must still complete holiday homework assignments. The first reason provided is that holiday homework helps students keep in touch with their schoolwork over the long break. Secondly, it teaches students to balance their time and take responsibility for their work. Additionally, holiday homework topics often provide an opportunity for research and learning new things. It also allows students to revise what they've learned and identify areas they need more understanding. Projects assigned as holiday homework help students become more independent and able to deal with problems. However, the document notes homework also has some drawbacks.

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The summer of the beautiful white horse

this story is about two cousins who belong to Garoghlanian


tribe, well known for their honesty and trust.
The story revolves around how the lads belonging to a
poverty-stricken tribe are able to fulfil their dream of riding a
horse by using the image of their tribe which is known for
being honest.
The story begins with one of boy Aram being surprised to
found that his cousin is having a horse and inviting him for a
ride. The very first thought that comes to his mind is that
what he is seeing isn’t true because they simply couldn’t
afford to buy a horse, however when he realises that it is
indeed true he tries to console himself with the fact that his
brother couldn’t have stolen the horse as no member of the
Garoghlanian tribe could be a thief. As he rides the horse for
the first time he tries to console himself that indeed the
merely seems as if they have borrowed the horse. As the ride
continues Aram comes to discover many things such as how
the horse has been with Mourad for a long time and how he
had been riding him alone. The story also contains many
anecdotes about the tribe. Ultimately as they are riding one
day they stumble upon to meet the real owner of the horse
who swears that it seems just like his horse, however, states
that as he knows that they belong to such an honest tribe he
wouldn’t imagine it to be his. The following morning the
cousins return the horse back to the place of its owner.

The portrait of a lady


The portrait of a lady is a descriptive narration aimed by the
author to present his thoughts about his grandmother. The
first half deals with the physical features and how to the
author it seemed rather unbelievable that once his
grandmother had been young too. To him all the other facets
of her life such as having a husband, being pretty, playing
games were so unimaginable that he considered them as
fables. To him she had always been old and couldn’t have
aged more. The story also deals with how the relationship
between the author and his grandmother change as he grows
up. As a child, the narrator is very close to his grandmother
and spends a majority of his time with her. However, once
they move to the city to live with his parents, he is able to
recognize the distance which grows between them as now
they can no longer do the things they used to when living in
the village. Moreover, his grandmother finds it difficult to
accept the features of western education and is disturbed by
certain aspects of it. One can also see that the grandmother
has a very deep belief and connection with God and is seen
chanting and singing prayers. Once the author moves to
university, the distance is once again Increased between
them, however, the grandmother accepts this and keeps
herself occupied with praying, spinning and feeding the
sparrows. The day the author returns from abroad after his
studies, a change is seen in the behaviour of the
grandmother as instead of praying she starts singing for
several hours. The next day is marked by a sudden change in
the demeanour of his grandmother who declares that t is her
last day and she would like to spend the day praying instead
of talking. The story ends with the description of how the
sparrows pay tribute to the grandmother after her death.

A photograph
It is a poem in which the author remembers her mother by
looking at a photograph of her mothers’ childhood. The poet
describes the photo of three girls standing together holding
each other’s hand with her mother in the centre. She
describes her mother as having a sweet face standing in front
of an everlasting sea. The poet then remembers her mother
who used to look at the photo filled with joy reminiscing the
moment the photo was clicked. The author then remarks
that the sea holiday was her mothers’ past whereas the
memory of her smiling whilst looking at the photo is her past.

A Photograph,” a poem by the English writer Shirley Toulson, describes the adult speaker’s
discovery of a photograph showing her mother, at that time a girl, and some even younger
cousins swimming during a holiday at the sea. At the time the picture was taken, the
speaker’s mother was “the big girl,” roughly twelve years old (4), and the picture shows her
holding the hands of the two younger girls as they swim. The photo shows all three girls
smiling for the camera, and the speaker fondly recalls how her mother, in her thirties or
forties, later looked at the picture and laughed at the way she and her cousins were
dressed. Now the speaker, looking at the picture herself, ponders the fact that her mother
has been dead for roughly twelve years—about as long as the young girl in the picture had
at that point lived.

Clearly one theme of Toulson’s poem is mutability, or change. The picture records a time in
the distant past; the speaker recalls a time in the more recent past; and then the speaker
finally comments on the present, when her mother has been dead for roughly twelve years.
The poem is thus a meditation on the passing of time and also on the fact of loss, especially
the mother’s loss of her youth and the speaker’s loss of her mother. Yet the poem can also
be seen as a response to, and minor victory over, such loss. Just as the photograph records
the past so that the past still, in some sense, exists, so the poem itself records both the
photograph and the responses to it of the speaker’s mother and of the speaker herself. The
poem itself functions as a kind of photograph, preserving the past so that it never
completely disappears.

The fact that the photograph is surrounded by (or pasted onto) a piece of mere “cardboard”
(1) already suggests the idea of fragility. The photograph is not surrounded by a sturdy
metal frame, nor is it (apparently) preserved under protective glass. Instead, the photo is in
some ways as vulnerable to change as the people it pictures have proven to be. In the
photo, the mother, then a twelve-year-old girl, serves as a source of security and
reassurance to her younger cousins. Ironically, of course, the mother herself is now dead;
although she protected her...

The address
This story is about the a girl who after the war decides to
return to her native place so to collect the belonging left by
her mother.
The story begins with the protagonist visiting the house of
the lady with whom she believes her mother her given their
stuff. The lady who opens the door fails shows no sign of
recognition. However, when the protagonist notices the
green cardigan worn by the lady she is assured that she is at
the correct address. however, the lady gives her a cold
reception and declines to talk to her. As the protagonist
leaves the house she recollects the event when her mother
had given her the address. long ago during the war when she
had decided to visit her mother, she was surprised to find
that many things for their house were missing. This mystery
is later solved when her mother tells her about a specific lady
mrs.dorling,her acquaintance who had decided to renew
their contact and since then during each of her visit had been
taking some of their precious stuff to save for after the war.
During the second visit to Mrs Dorling’s house she is
welcomed by a young girl who informs her that her mother is
out shopping. The protagonist expresses her desire to meet
with her mother and is welcomed inside. To her surprise she
finds herself in a room which she knows and not knows at
the same time. The room is filled with her possessions. While
the girl talks about different things the lady is too busy
noticing all of her things and too her surprise is not able to
express her thoughts. In the end she decides that these
things no longer belong to her and she decides to leave and
move on.

IMPORTANCE OF HOLIDAY HOMEWORK


good morning to one and all present here and welcome to
the very last assembly before the summer break. we all are
very excited and buzzing with joy because we don't have to
wake up early or finish a plethora of homework and
assignments. moreover, we all are going to new places or
maybe meet our relatives and have fun but then we realize
that of course, we have holiday homework.
So today I, Nehal will be telling you that why holiday
homework is essential. to begin with I know that no one
wants to do homework and often I have found myself
wondering that what is the need of holiday homework. well if
I ask you that who all find it difficult to come back to school
after the massive 45 days’ vacation, I know most of you do
and so do I. so the very first reason why homework is
necessary is that it helps you keep in touch with your school
work. the next reason why I feel that homework is necessary
is that it teaches us to balance our time and makes us
responsible for our actions and work. often the topics of our
homework give us an opportunity to do research and most of
the times we end up learning new things and as the saying
goes the larger the island of knowledge the longer the is the
shoreline of wonder. Moreover, it also allows us to revise our
studies and find out where we are lacking in our
understanding. Often, we have to complete projects which
also teaches us to become independent and deal with
problems which one might face. However, like everything
homework also has its cons.

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