BA / BSW / BBS Note for Compulsory English

Literal Comprehension:  The story ‘The Brave Little Parrot’ is taken from Buddhist legend where Buddha was incarnated as a little parrot. The jungle was traumatized with terrible fire where every creature was running from one direction to another to save their life but it was impossible because the fire was spreading in every surrounding. Luckily the parrot escaped and saw the miserable condition of the entire wild animals and felt pity. With the resolution of help, parrot starts to dip into the river water and fly over the flame to stop the fire. He continues his task but few and small drops of water from the feathers of the parrot was not sufficient and that was a matter of mockery for the god. The parrot was almost getting the worst condition as his body was almost damage and eyes were ripped. After some time gods were noticed about this incident and they were laughing with the vain-full job of Parrot. But one of the kind gods came to parrot and suggested stopping his painful job

Literal Comprehension:  The story ‘Yudhishthira’s Wisdom’ is taken from Hindu mythology, Mahabharata which talks about five Pandav brothers and their banishment in the jungle. In pursuit of deer, they felt thirsty and as their mouth parched, eldest brother Yudhishthira sent Shahadeva in search of water. Shahadeva didn’t return for a long time so Nakula was sent in search of Shahadeva as well as water. But he didn’t return and remaining two brothers Bhim and Arjun were sent one by one. Due to the evil fate, entire brothers were felt unconscious near a water pool which was not notice for Yudhishthira. After waiting for a long time Yudhishthira decided himself go in search of his lovely brothers. Following their footsteps, Yudhishthira found very beautiful water pool with very clean water. When he reached the edge of the pool, he saw his four brothers in another side-lying unconsciously as dead bodies. Instead of drinking water, he started to cry for his lovely brothers. After long wept,