Summary, Analysis and Activty sheet
Unit 2.1 Cherry Tree
-Ruskin Bond
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| 2.1 Cherry Tree by Ruskin Bond |
About the Poet:
Ruskin Bond is regarded as one of the prolific writers of Indian writings. Born in Kasauli, (Himachal Pradesh) in 1934, he grew up in Jamnagar (Gujarat), Dehradun, New Delhi and Shimla. his first novel The Room on the Roof written when he was seventeen and received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then and he has written over 500 short stories essays and novellas and more than forty books for children. He was conferred the 'Sahitya Akademi Award' in 1992 for Our Trees Still Grow In Dehra. He was also awarded the 'Padmashri' in 1999 and 'Padma Bhushan'in 2014.
Read the following extract carefully and do all the activities that follow.
A.1 State the following statements are TRUE / FALSE.
1. The poet wanted his own tree.
TRUE
2. They destroyed the Cherry tree
FALSE
Correct sentence - Despite many threats, the cherry tree has grown three new shoots
in the next spring.
3. The cherry tree did not take long to grow.
FALSE
Correct sentence - The cherry tree took 8 years to grow.
4. The Cherry tree had an instinct to survive
TRUE
A.2 Give reasons
The life of the cherry tree was threatened.
Ans: The life of the Cherry tree was threatened because the cherry tree was surrounded by tall wild grass, goat ate the leaves, grass cutter scythe and soon it gets damaged and dried but in the next spring the tree was struggling for light, air and the sun.
Ans: The life of the Cherry tree was threatened because the cherry tree was surrounded by tall wild grass, goat ate the leaves, grass cutter scythe and soon it gets damaged and dried but in the next spring the tree was struggling for light, air and the sun.
A4 Personal opinion
1. Write a note on 'importance of trees'
or
2. Write a note on 'benefits of trees'
or
3. Trees are revered because -
or
2. Write a note on 'benefits of trees'
or
3. Trees are revered because -
i. Trees give us joy
ii. They give us oxygen & food
iii. Trees maintain environmental balance
iv. Trees provide us fruits, flowers, wood and shelter
v. They are the habitat of insects, birds and animals
vi. They prevent soil erosion and flood.
A.4 Figures of speech
1. Personification
1. ' I found a tree had come to stay.
It was very small, five months child'
It was very small, five months child'
Explanation: A tree has attributed a human quality of coming and staying.
2. 'Its arms in a fresh fierce lust'
Explanation: A tree is described as having arms like humans.
2. Alliteration
1. Shrivelled the slender stem...... Even so
Explanation: sound "s" is repeated rhythmically
2. 'Its arms in a fresh fierce lust'
Explanation: sound "f" is repeated rhythmically
Explanation: sound "f" is repeated rhythmically
A.5 Poetic Creativity
Write a poem of your own of four-line on a tree/ a plant.
"Now, I will
plant this little tree
Forever
and ever it belongs to me
It can be
short, it can be tall
They give us oxygen, they give us all.."
They give us oxygen, they give us all.."
OR
Students can compose their own poem and write it.
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