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    The document summarizes a chapter from R.K. Narayan's novel about a boy named Swami. Swami's father tells him the story of a brave boy who got trapped in a tree by a tiger. Swami doubts a boy could fight a tiger, but his father says courage is more important than strength or age. Later, Swami argues he would be too scared to sleep alone, so his father challenges him to do so to prove his courage.

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    The document summarizes a chapter from R.K. Narayan's novel about a boy named Swami. Swami's father tells him the story of a brave boy who got trapped in a tree by a tiger. Swami doubts a boy could fight a tiger, but his father says courage is more important than strength or age. Later, Swami argues he would be too scared to sleep alone, so his father challenges him to do so to prove his courage.

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    10th STD

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    The document summarizes a chapter from R.K. Narayan's novel about a boy named Swami. Swami's father tells him the story of a brave boy who got trapped in a tree by a tiger. Swami doubts a boy could fight a tiger, but his father says courage is more important than strength or age. Later, Swami argues he would be too scared to sleep alone, so his father challenges him to do so to prove his courage.

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    Chapter - 1

    A Hero
    Written by
    R.K Narayan
    • R.K. Narayan is the greatest Indian novelist.
    • He is best known for his fictional south Indian town of
    Malgudi.
    • His works include Swami and his friends, The Bachelor
    of Arts, The English Teacher and the Financial Expert.
    • His novel, The Guide was adapted for film and it won
    the Sahitya Academy Award.
    • He was nominated to Rajya Sabha, the upper house
    of India’s parliament.
    • In this lesson Swami’s father reading
    newspaper under the hall lamp.
    • Later he said to his son, “Swami listen to this
    news, it is about bravery boy of the village
    while returning to home by jungle path he
    came face to face the tiger”.
    • He stayed on the tree half a day till some
    people came that way and killed the tiger.
    • Swami said , “I think he must have been a very
    strong and grown-up person, not a boy at all”.
    • “How could be a boy fight with a tiger?”
    • His father angrily told “A man may have the
    strength of an elephant and yet be a coward:
    where as another may have the strength of a
    straw, but if he has courage he can do
    anything”.
    • “Courage is everything, strength and age are not
    important”.
    • Later swami argued with is father that he has all
    the courage what could I do if a tiger should
    attack me?
    • So his father told Swami to sleep him alone in his
    office room.
    • Swami was sleeping with his granny in the
    passage.
    • If their is any change in the daily routine he
    will be trembling and awake all night.
    • Swami told to his father that “From the first of
    next month, I’ll sleep alone, father.”
    • His father did not agree and said him ‘It is
    disgraceful sleeping beside granny or mother
    like a baby’.

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