Summary (His First Flight) The story is about a young seagull who is alone on a ledge and afraid to fly. His family tries to encourage him to fly, but he is too scared. Eventually, he gets so hungry that he jumps off the ledge and starts to fly. He discovers that flying is not …
Summary From A Triumph of Surgery The passage describes a scenario in which a veterinarian named Mr. Herriot is treating a dog named Tricki, who has become overweight and lethargic due to overfeeding and lack of exercise. Despite initial resistance from Tricki’s owner, Mrs. Pumphrey, Mr. Herriot insists that Tricki be hospitalized for observation and …
Summary From the “Diary of Anne Frank” Anne Frank was a Jewish girl who wrote in a diary while in hiding with her family and four friends in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. The family went into hiding in July 1942 in hidden rooms in her father Otto …
Dust of Snow The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued. Prose passage-01 As I walked through the forest, a crow perched atop a hemlock tree caught my attention. …
Summary South Africa had a political system known as apartheid until very recently. Nelson Mandela, and his African National Congress, spent a lifetime fighting against apartheid. Mandela had to spend thirty years in prison. Finally, democratic elections were held in South Africa in 1994, and Mandela became the first black President of a new nation. …
Summary -01 (A letter to God) The story is about a man named Lencho who lives in a valley with his family. He is a farmer and knows his fields intimately. He predicts a rainstorm and it starts to rain, but it turns into a hailstorm that destroys his entire cornfield. He and his family …