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The Lost Doll               Maria Del Carmen is the only child of Roberto and Rosa Soto. She is beautiful, right, kind and loving child. However, she is sick from the day of her birth. As time passes, she becomes more and more weak and finally she dies when she turns four. Since everyone in the village loves the child, all of them attend her funeral. They bury the child in the cemetery outside the village.               After some days, Rosa gives Carmen’s clothes and playthings to the priest from another village. She gives them so that she will be able to forget Carmen easily. Moreover, the doctor says that she won’t be able to give birth to another baby after Carmen. But Roberto doesn’t become happy to hear this. He wants to save the things because he still hopes that Rosa will give birth to another child. He consoles her that because Rosa was busy in...

The House Call It is a day after Christmas, 1903, 9:30 in the evening. A famous German Surgeon, Dr. Emil Braun is sitting in the dining room of his apartment in Berlin. He had performed and supervised difficult surgical operations that day for more than eight hours. So, he is trying to write notes and have dinner also. But he is too tired so he becomes asleep on the table. He wakes up when he hears a doorbell and also hears a girl saying to his wife that her mother is very sick. The doctor then goes to the door and there he sees a thin little girl wearing cotton dress, old shoes and shawl. The girl wants to take the doctor because her mother was dying. Though the doctor was very tired, he becomes ready to make a house call because he is very dutiful.               The doctor picks up his black bag and goes out in the night. In the light rain he follows the girl but the girl walks very fast in the street. She stops ...

Fear               Fear is a psychological story from Mexico with Armando Gonzalez as its main character. The story examines how baseless fear results in nervousness and how things get worse when people become unnecessarily nervous.               Armando goes to a bank in Mexico to withdraw 50000 pesos. He has a dream to buy a house with this money. The bank teller asks unnecessary questions and counts the money loudly which helps to increase Armando’s fear. As he leaves the bank he puts his hat on backwards due to nervousness. A number of people look at him and a heavy man looks at Armando twice in the bank.               Armando starts sweating with fear because he thinks that somebody is going to rob him. His mouth becomes dry and his heart starts beating faster. He holds the wad of m...

The Loving Mother               The story The Loving Mother is about a mother’s love for her child. It talks about how a mother’s spirit is not in peace after leaving behind a small child. Even after the death the mother comes back to the child in order to look after her. Since it talks about spirit and ghost it is a supernatural story.               Shoji Sakota is a pharmacist in Sapporo, a city in northern part of Japan. He lives alone in an apartment behind the drugstore. His wife has died earlier. The building being the same he sometimes works till late. One stormy night Shoji Sakota is busy preparing his annual business report. At about midnight there is a knock at the door. He ignores the knock and goes back to his work. When there is s knock for second time he thinks it could be the wind. The knock is louder next time and he goes towards the do...

“MY HEART LEAPS UP WHEN I BEHOLD”               The poem “My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold” is written by William Wordsworth an English poet and worshiper of nature and simplicity. The poem is based on the recollection of poet’s childhood experience and feelings that bear the stamp of continuity.               The poem deals with the spontaneous overflow of those powerful feelings and joys as felt by the heart of the poet in his childhood and manhood at the sight of rainbow in the sky and the poet hopes to feel the same in the old age.               The poet describes the influence of a rainbow upon his heart. According to his words, he feels overjoyed to see it in the sky and his heart leaps up every time he notices a rainbow. He further points out that he used to feel the same joy and h...

“SPEAKING OF CHILDREN” - By Barbara Holland Q. Does this essay speak in favour or against having many children? Give reasons. The essay “Speaking of Children” is written by an American Writer, Barbara Holland. It is an informal piece of writing made lively and effective through the device of conversation. It examines the negative aspects of having more than one child. Hence it speaks against having many children.               The advantages of parents for having one child are quite obvious. One child is an appendage and it can be outnumbered by parents. It can be carried along on pleasure trips. The most important of all is the privacy, which remains intact. On the contrary, plural children will be the end of advantages and the beginning of disadvantages. They will be counter-culture in the house and the parents will be outnumbered. There will be no place left in the living room because of the toys all over. Lo...