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Book : First FlightCHAPTER 1: A LETTER TO GOD By G.L.Fuentes
➢ Lencho was a farmer, his house was the only house in the valley and on top of a hill.
➢ Lencho's fields needed rain for a good harvest.
➢ He looked expectantly at the sky and it did rain at last .
➢ The drops of rain were like the coins for him, which would help him reap a good harvest and earn some money
for his family.
➢ But his happiness was short lived as very large hailstones began to fall after the rain and destroyed his crop.
➢ There was a single hope -help from God, On the following Sunday ,he wrote a letter to God.
➢ He needed a hundred pesos to sow his fields again and to live until the new crop came.
➢ He wrote 'To God ' on the envelope and put the letter into the mail box.
➢ The postman laughed heartily and took it to the postmaster ,the postmaster laughed too but soon he became
serious.
➢ He decided to reply the letter and help Lencho, as he did not want Lencho to lose faith in God.
➢ Postmaster could collect seventy pesos only, from his employees and he himself also contributed a part of his
salary.
➢ He put the money in an envelope and posted it to Lencho.
➢ Lencho was happy but not at all surprised when he received the money because he had an unbroken faith in
God .
➢ His happiness turned into anger as there were only seventy pesos instead of hundred pesos .
➢ Lencho could never believe that God could ever deceive him .
➢ So, he wrote another letter to God reminding him that he received only 70 pesos sent by him
➢ He asked God not to send the rest of 30 pesos through the mail as the post office employees were a ' bunch
of crooks.
CHAPTER 2 : NELSON MANDELA : LONG WALK TO FREEDOM by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
➢ The inauguration ceremony of the first non-racial government was held in the Union Buildings in Pretoria.
➢ Politicians and dignitaries from more than 140 countries attended the ceremony.
➢ Nelson Mandela was then sworn-in as the President of Republic of South Africa.
➢ For decades South Africa had been the seat of white supremacy .The blacks were considered as outlaws.
➢ Their victory over “apartheid” was a common victory for justice, peace and freedom. ➢ Nelson Mandela was
overwhelmed with a sense of history.
➢ The society based on racial discrimination was the harshest and the most inhuman society in the world.
➢ The decades of oppression and exploitation of the blacks produced- heroes like Tambo's, Sisulu and others in
South Africa.
➢ Mandela learned the meaning of courage which does not mean absence of fear rather it means victory over
fear.
➢ Every man has twin responsibilities / obligations - towards his family and for his people and country.
➢ If any black tried to live like a free human being, he was punished and isolated from his family and community.
➢ Mandela realised that not only he but his brothers and sisters were deprived of freedom.
➢ His desire for the freedom and dignity of his people made him a rebel. He realised that freedom is indivisible.
➢
CHAPTER 3 : TWO STORIES ABOUT FLYING PART
I : HIS FIRST FLIGHT
➢ The author Liam O'flaherty displays the importance of family and friends in overcoming the fears in our life
through the story of a young Seagull who was unable to take his first flight.
➢ A family of seagulls had mother, father, three sons and a daughter.
➢ The youngest son was fearful to take his first flight as he believed his small Wings would not support him,
also he was afraid of the height of the Cliff from the Sea.
➢ The parents cajoled him and kept him hungry to let him learn a lesson.
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, ➢ When the young Seagull couldn't take the Hunger and heat anymore the mother Seagull brought a piece of
fish near him.
➢ The young Seagull tried to grab the piece from his mother's mouth. In doing so he reached the edge of the
Cliff and fell from there as the mother Seagull moved away from the edge.
➢ Initially fear hovered him but soon he flapped his wings and soared and finally landed on the green sea taking
his first flight. The whole family rejoiced and cackled.
PART II: THE BLACK AEROPLANE
➢ The narrator Frederick Forsyth was flying his Dakota from France to England to meet his family in holidays
and enjoy a good English breakfast with his family.
➢ When he flew at night the sky was clear and as instructed by Paris control he turned 12 degrees West.
➢ When he was about 150 kilometres away from Paris his saw the approaching storm.
➢ He took the risk and flew into it. The compass and other instruments stopped working.
➢ The plane tossed and twisted in the air and he couldn't contact Paris control. Suddenly a black aeroplane
appeared without lights on its wings.
➢ The pilot waved him and signalled to follow him. It was strange that he flew for halfn hour even when he had
fuel left only for five or ten minutes.
➢ Suddenly he saw the Runway and landed safely. He wanted to thank the pilot of the black aeroplane but was
shocked to see no one there.
➢ He went to the control room to enquire about him but found that no other aeroplane except his was there in
the sky that night. He was awestruck at the miracle.
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CHAPTER 4 FROM THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
➢ Anne Frank was a 13 year old Jewish girl who wrote a diary while her family was hiding in Amsterdam from
the Naziz who were incurring atrocities during World War II.
➢ Anne wrote the diary to overcome loneliness in her life. She named it Kitty.
➢ She couldn't confide in anyone and felt that paper has more patience. Also she thought nobody would be
interested in the diary as she was a small girl.
➢ Anne adored her father. She had an elder sister Margot and they lived in Frankfurt before they migrated to
Holland for refuge. Her mother stayed behind with her grandmother.
➢ She had sweet memories of Mrs. Kuperus at Montessori School. Her grandmother fell ill in 1941 and died in
1942. This broke her.
➢ Anne considered teachers to be the most unpredictable creatures on earth. She had good relationship with all
teachers except Mr Keesing who punished her several times for talking too much during the lessons.
➢ She wrote an essay on A Chatterbox as punishment, saying that talking was a student's trait and she inherited
it from her mother. Again as punishment she wrote an essay on An Incorrigible Chatterbox. Then she wrote
an essay on Quack Quack Quack said Mistress Chatterbox.
➢ Her friend Sanne helped her write it in verse. It said that father Duck beat the three ducklings as they quacked
too much and made them deaf.
➢ Mr Keesing took the joke in the right way and didn't bother Anne for talking thereafter and didn't give her
any extra homework.
CHAPTER 5 – GLIMPSES OF INDIA I. A BAKER FROM GOA by Lucio Rodrigues
➢ The Portuguese in Goa were lovers of bread.
➢ Those eaters of bread have now gone but its makers still exist.
➢ During the childhood days of the narrator, a baker used to be their friend, companion and guide.
➢ The baker came twice a day- once in the morning and again while returning home after finishing his selling.
➢ The jingling thud of the baker’s bamboo woke up the sleeping children. ➢ The loaves were delivered to the
servants of the house.
➢ The children would peep into the baker’s basket for the bread bangles. ➢ The children would eat bread with
hot tea.
➢ The marriages were incomplete without the popular bol bread.
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