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    This book review summarizes the children's story "The Blue Umbrella" by Ruskin Bond. It describes how a poor girl named Binya trades her pendant for a beautiful blue umbrella. The umbrella becomes a source of envy for the village shopkeeper Ram Bharosa, who has his employee steal it. However, the theft is discovered. Feeling bad for the shopkeeper losing business, Binya selflessly donates the umbrella back to him. The story touches on themes of kindness and humanity.

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    This book review summarizes the children's story "The Blue Umbrella" by Ruskin Bond. It describes how a poor girl named Binya trades her pendant for a beautiful blue umbrella. The umbrella becomes a source of envy for the village shopkeeper Ram Bharosa, who has his employee steal it. However, the theft is discovered. Feeling bad for the shopkeeper losing business, Binya selflessly donates the umbrella back to him. The story touches on themes of kindness and humanity.

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    This book review summarizes the children's story "The Blue Umbrella" by Ruskin Bond. It describes how a poor girl named Binya trades her pendant for a beautiful blue umbrella. The umbrella becomes a source of envy for the village shopkeeper Ram Bharosa, who has his employee steal it. However, the theft is discovered. Feeling bad for the shopkeeper losing business, Binya selflessly donates the umbrella back to him. The story touches on themes of kindness and humanity.

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    Name: Himesh Martha


    Class: Xth-(c)
    Roll no: 49
    Subject Teacher: Mrs. Satadala Mohanty
    The Blue Umbrella
    About The Author:

    Ruskin Bond (born 19 May 1934) is an


    Anglo Indian author. His first novel, The
    Room on the Roof, was published in 1956,
    and it received the John Llewellyn Rhys
    Prize in 1957. Bond has authored more
    than 500 short stories, essays, and novels,
    including 50 books for children. He was
    awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in
    1992 for Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra. He
    was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and
    Padma Bhushan in 2014. He lives with his
    adopted family in Landour, Mussoorie.
    Synopsis: This is a story of Binya, a
    poor little girl living with her mother and
    an elder brother, Bijju, in a small hilly
    village of Garhwal. One day while herding
    her two cows back home, she stumbles
    upon some city people enjoying the picnic
    in the valley. She is enthralled to see them
    well-groomed and rich. She craves to be
    one like them and among many other
    things of their, a blue frilly umbrella
    catches her attention. She begins craving
    for it. On the other hand, the city people get
    attracted by her innocent beauty and the
    pendant in her neck. The pendant consists
    of leopard’s claw – which is considered a
    mascot widely in the hills. Binya trades her
    pendant off with the blue umbrella.

    The blue umbrella is so much beautiful that


    soon it becomes a topic of conversation for
    villagers and children adore her umbrella
    so much that every time they feel like to
    touch or hold it. Binya is on seventh heaven
    and rarely closes it because she believes it
    looks charming when it is opened.

    Ram Bharosa runs a small shop where he


    sells food items, grocery, and soft drinks
    without a refrigerator. He is so much
    envied by the umbrella that he decides to
    own it at any condition. So, he extends a
    proposal for buying the umbrella from
    Binya. But she refuses the offer. The
    refusal turns him off. Very soon, he hires a
    boy from the neighboring village to work at
    his shop. The boy being loyal to him steals
    the umbrella from Binya when she is out in
    the jungle collecting porcupines quills.
    Ironically, the boy is caught by Bijju. When
    the boy reveals Ram Bharosa’s name
    behind the stealing, the villagers ostracize
    him and also stop visiting his shop. As a
    result, Ram Bharosa suffers a loss and his
    livelihood comes on the verge of end.

    Binya feels sad about Ram Bharosa’s


    situation and she reproaches herself for
    his suffering. Next, she donates her
    umbrella to Ram Bharosa. In return, Ram
    gifts her pendant with a bear’s claw in it,
    which is considered even luckier than of
    leopard’s.

    Theme: The Blue Umbrella by Ruskin


    Bond is a children’s book. The story is
    short and simple but elegantly touches the
    core aspect of humanity - kindness.
    Character:
     Binya (Protagonist)
     Bijju (Binya’s brother)
     Ram Bharosa (The shop keeper),
    (Antagonist)

    Bibliography: All the facts and


    fiction shown or given in this review are
    based on the book “The Blue Umbrella”
    written by Ruskin Bond.

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