BA / BSW / BBS Note for Compulsory English

A Tale  (Four levels)   Literal Comprehension This ancient tale written by BP Koirala talks about the story of a man who had gone to the jungle and started penance to obtain godhood. According to him, the source of supreme power is blocked due to social organization and the love of family and friends. So, to win supreme knowledge and godhood, he went to the jungle to remain away from any disturbance of human being. To get the penance and to come over the flesh, he squatted in front of seven tongued fires in summer and plunged into ice-cold water in winter. After a long meditation, sages penance started to threaten the seat of heaven. So, the king of the god, Indra was afraid of his power. Thus Indra planned to destroy Sage’s penance and sent a beautiful nymph. During Sage’s deep meditation, nymph produced exciting voice that disturbed meditation. Sage was attracted with her body as she was bent down towards river water and her barest was about to touch water she was playing ...

Telegram on the Table (Four levels)   Literal Comprehension: The story ‘Telegram on the Table’ written by Parshu Pradhan talks about the contemporary situation of a young generation in general and Mr. Krishna in particular. Krishna had come to the city from the village who had been working as a tourist guide for a long time. As he becomes busy with foreigners, he starts to learn English. He listens to English music, dreams in English and has a conversation in English with foreign friends. Not only had that he started to dream of going to America by following an American girl. He has a schedule of retuning room very lately with the tired body due to office work. The room is not good as it has a scarcity of water and many things including regular complain of the household. He wanted to leave this room because the room is the reason where he is not able to call his friend Miss Panday for dinner.  One day, he received a telegram related to tragic event “death of his wife.” O...

Literal Comprehension:  Moti Nissani has written this essay “Why go to university?” where he has given the importance of university education. This suggestive essay gives various logics on the significant of the high-level degree to maintain quality of life. According to the writer, university education has the advantage as it concerns to income and job opportunities. It is also useful even for the illegal immigrant where people must have ideas regarding any written documents and information. The writer further presents his logic in the importance of education and says; an educated person can remain healthy. Educated person can take care of their health and enjoy better health condition than tycoons. It means education is important for a healthy life. Furthermore, the writer interconnected education and physical exercise too. Similarly, he argues that only an educated person can have real knowledge of cultural values. In childhood, every human can have over curiosity like “Why is...

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 ...

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 we...