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HSC English First Paper (Ques. No-11)

1) Write down the theme of the following story (Not more than 50 words).
Zaman and Mintu are two friends, lived near a deep forest. One day they decided to see elephant. So they went into the forest. As they were talking walking gossiping and discussing about the biggest animal of the world, it made them curious.
At the time of their gossiping and walking into the forest they saw many animals but did not see any
elephant walking few minutes suddenly they saw a lion and they became very fear and hid beside a big tree. And so they saved them from the ferociousness of the lion. Now they were discussing each other about the fear and made some tricks how to face upcoming problem. However, they were able to save themselves and started to walk again. But they walked, walked and walked through the forest, could not find any elephant. They became hopeless but God granted their hope. At the time of their walking suddenly they heard the high sound of leg on the earth. Firstly, they did not understand what it was and then they understood that it was nothing but an elephant.
As they knew the elephant textually but not practically, their joys knew no bounds. So they started to walk toward the elephant and became very curious and attractive. But, as soon as when they about to the elephant it tried to attack them. So they ran very fast and saved themselves again from the ferociousness of the biggest animal of the world.

Answer: The theme of the story is curiosity and its positive effect. Curiosity makes people learn many thing. Out of curiosity Zaman and Mintu went to a forest to see elephant. From the various incidents they faced in the jungle, they learn some tricks how to save life. But it is because of their curiosity they also succeeded to see an elephant practically for the first time.

2) Write down the theme of the following poem (Not more than 50 words). 08
Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a pained ship,
Upon a Painted ocean.
Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere.
Nor any drop to drink.

Answer: The lines indicate that the speaker is on ship and the ship stucked in a ocean for several days. The ocean is like painted. The speaker and his companions cannot move further. The ship is as motionless as a ship painted in a picture. They are almost dying of thirst but tragedy is that having limitless water around them they cannot even drink a drop of water.

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HSC English First Paper (Ques. No-11)

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.

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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