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.
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.
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.
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)
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