1) Write down the theme of the following story (Not more than 50 words ).
Once there was a selfish giant who had a large and beautiful garden. The garden was full of soft green
grass. Here and there all over the grass stood many colorful flowers like stars. The garden was a nice playground for the beautiful children. The children used to go there, but one day the Giant returned from the Cornwall and he didn't allow children to play and built a wall. Now the children had nowhere to play and they wanted to return into the garden. The spring came, but in the Giant's garden it was still the winter and it began the house of the Snow and the Frost, who they invited also the Hail and the North Wind because the Giant was too selfish. The Giant one morning heard a linnet singing and he thought what that the spring was coming because the children had in the garden. The trees was covered with flowers and birds were flying. Only in a corner there was the snow because a little child couldn't climb up a tree. So the Giant helped the child and he put him on the top of the tree because he understood his selfishness. Every day the children went to play there but no one saw the little child and the Giant was sad because he loved him. The Giant grew old and one winter day the Giant found the child in a corner with a tree covered of blossoms. The child had many wounds and the Giant understood that the child was Jesus and took the Giant to Paradise.
2) Write down the theme of the following poem (Not more than 50 words).
Shall I compare thee to a summer‘s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer‘s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm‘d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature‘s changing course untrimm‘d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow‘st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander‘st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow‘st;
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Once there was a selfish giant who had a large and beautiful garden. The garden was full of soft green
grass. Here and there all over the grass stood many colorful flowers like stars. The garden was a nice playground for the beautiful children. The children used to go there, but one day the Giant returned from the Cornwall and he didn't allow children to play and built a wall. Now the children had nowhere to play and they wanted to return into the garden. The spring came, but in the Giant's garden it was still the winter and it began the house of the Snow and the Frost, who they invited also the Hail and the North Wind because the Giant was too selfish. The Giant one morning heard a linnet singing and he thought what that the spring was coming because the children had in the garden. The trees was covered with flowers and birds were flying. Only in a corner there was the snow because a little child couldn't climb up a tree. So the Giant helped the child and he put him on the top of the tree because he understood his selfishness. Every day the children went to play there but no one saw the little child and the Giant was sad because he loved him. The Giant grew old and one winter day the Giant found the child in a corner with a tree covered of blossoms. The child had many wounds and the Giant understood that the child was Jesus and took the Giant to Paradise.
Answer : The theme of the story is selfishness. The story beautifully depicts the picture of the ultimate impact of selfishness. The selfish giant did not allow the little children to play in his garden. As a result in spring the giant's garden was full of snow and frost. Then the giant could realize his fault. So he allowed the children then come again.
2) Write down the theme of the following poem (Not more than 50 words).
Shall I compare thee to a summer‘s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer‘s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm‘d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature‘s changing course untrimm‘d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow‘st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander‘st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow‘st;
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Answer: The general theme of the sonnet is the speaker's affection for his beloved. The poet is admiring a woman, and saying that her beauty will never fade because he is putting it into verse. He begins by comparing her to a summer day, and then saying she is much more beautiful. He makes her beauty, and her qualities eternal putting them into poetry.
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