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Noodle avoided offending Think-Tank, but at the same time, he very cleverly tries to correct his mistakes also. Whenever Noodle had to say something contrary to what Think- Tank said, he would present his thoughts by referring to them as being of no particular importance. In this way he would correct Think-Tank’s errors without making him feel that he was being corrected.Noodle appears to be quite an expert in handling these kind of people.

Bill told the lawyer that he knew Lutkins' mother. He said that she was a terror. He narrated an incident when he took a trunk to her once and she almost took his skin off because he did not treat it like a box of eggs. He also said that she was very tall and fat. She was very quick and could talk a lot. He said that Oliver must have heard that somebody was chasing him and consequently, would have gone into hiding at his mother’s place

Lutkin’s neighbors were not anxious to meet a person who could be easily duped. They just wanted to enjoy the lawyer’s predicament.

Lutkins act of taking the lawyer for a ride clearly indicates that he is a very cunning person.The way he tried to deal with the lawyer shows how quick he is in making plans to fool people.His idea to not to disclose his true identity to unknown persons shows how clever he is and it seems to be his regular practice to dupe people ,especially the newcomers.As soon as the lawyer told Bill his purpose of visit to that place, Bill instantly knew how he would be fool the lawyer.

Yes, Tricki was very happy to go home. When the dog was brought into the surgery,he was ill. But in spite of that the dog got cured in two days without any medication. The doctor provided proper diet to Tricki and regular exercise also helped a lot in his speedy recovery. The dog regained his best health and was no longer restless. Now, I think Mrs. Pumphrey may again go back to her old ways of treating Tricki with love and care or learning a lesson from what she experienced ,she may mend her ways and make him an agile and healthier dog.

She calls the doctor to help Tricki. Yes, her decision is wise. The doctor suggests that Tricki should be hospitalized. She gets upset and wails, but lets the dog go with the doctor.

These sort of people have enough disposable money but are ignorant about results of their actions. They show their excessive love and affection without knowing its consequences to others. Undoubtedly, their intentions are good and don’t have any sort of ill-will, These actions do more harm than good to the object of affection.

Yes, there are parents who are too much possessive about their kids. Their sense of overindulgence can go either way. There are examples of parents spoiling their children by protecting them in each and every way , thus creating hardships for them later in their life.Also there are examples of parents who are strict and want their child to be disciplined and so unnecessarily put pressure on them to study hard and always follow a standard behavioral pattern.

Mrs Pumphrey thinks that the dog’s recovery is “a triumph of surgery” because in two weeks, Tricki had recovered completely and had been transformed into a hard-muscled animal. When Tricki saw her,he leaped into her lap and licked her face. She was so excited that tears started rolling out of her eyes. She declared Tricki’s recovery as a triumph of surgery to express her happiness and gratitude towards the doctor.

Tricki stayed at the surgery for a fortnight. Within two weeks, he had been transformed into a hard-muscled animal from a hugely fat dog. Mrs. Pumphrey was startled to See him when he hopped into her lap. She thought Tricki went through a surgery that transformed him completely.

Ausable says that he thought Max had got into the room through the balcony. He said that it was the second time in a month that somebody had got into his room this way.

Though not clearly stated, there are instances in the story which suggest that the narrator is not as rich as Tricki’s mistress, Mrs Pumphrey.The narrator is able to provide Tricki with a warm loose box as a bed whereas at Mrs Pumphrey’s house, Tricki has a day bed, a night bed, cushions, toys, rubber rings, a breakfast bowl, a lunch bowl, a supper bowl, a whole wardrobe of tweed coats and perhaps many more things. When he arrives to take the dog with him, Mrs Pumphrey has her entire staff at her disposal to transfer all of Tricki’s belongings to the doctor’s car. 

Secondly,on hearing from the doctor about Tricki’s gradual recovery, Mrs Pumphrey sends along two dozen eggs at a time, along with bottles of wine and brandy—all in order to help in Tricki’s speedy recovery. Finally, when she calls upon the narrator to take her recovered dog back home, she comes in a chauffeur-driven “thirty feet of gleaming black metal” (an obvious reference to a limousine). All these instances point to the fact that Mrs Pumphrey lived a luxurious life.

Richard Ebright was interested in collecting butterflies. By the time he was in his second grade, he had collected all the twenty-five species of butterflies found around his home town. This would have been the end of his butterfly collection, if his mother had not bought him a book called “The Travels of Monarch X". This book told him about the migration of Monarch butterflies to Central America. This book aroused his interest in Monarch butterflies and opened a new world of science to him. This proved to be a turning point in the life of young Richard Ebright. He began to raise Monarch butterflies in the basement of his home, and studied different stages of their development.

Ebrights’ works are directly related to Biology. Discovery of cell’s structure has helped scientific community to understand how the organisms function and grow. This has also helped other scientists to discover how disease causing organisms attack us and grow inside our body. DNA fingerprinting helps police to pinpoint to the real culprit. This could not have been possible until DNA was discovered. Monarch butterflies present an amazing example of a tiny creature migrating thousands of miles from North America to the rainforests of Amazon. Some day we can be in a position to develop as sturdy and reliable navigation system as that of the Monarch butterflies.

Reading books is just one aspect of learning. This is an exercise in information gathering. It is how your brain processes the information that affects the degree of learning. The first and the foremost criteria to become a genius in one’s chosen field is to have great curiosity and unending hunger to discover more. Next criteria is a sense of closely observing the things, which further helps you to correlate your findings with what you see or experience in the real world. Experiments are must to test your findings against possible variables and in real life situations. And last but not the least, it is an urge, a strong desire to work really hard on your area of interest.

The author mentions three qualities that go into the making of a scientist—a first-rate mind, curiosity, and the will to win for the right reasons. Richard Ebright was a very intelligent student. He was also a champion debater, a public speaker, a good canoeist and an expert photographer. He always tried to put that extra effort in his work. He was competitive, but for the right reasons. From the very beginning, he had a driving curiosity along with a bright mind; and it was this curiosity that ultimately led him to his theory about cell life.

Richard Ebright’s mother helped him by encouraging his interest and helped him enhance his knowledge and learning . She took him on trips, bought him telescopes, microscopes, cameras, mounting materials and other equipment and helped him in every possible way. If he did not have anything to do, she found things for him to learn. Even the book that became a turning point in his life was given to him by his mother. Hence, it can be rightly said that his mother played a crucial role in the making of a scientist.

He then undertakes the projects and experiments to find out what actually causes the viral disease that kills nearly all Monarch caterpillars.

He then works on a project to test the theory that viceroy butterflies copy monarchs to survive.

Ebright realizes that mere display of his collection only does not mean science. To win at a science fair he will have to do real experiments and prove his worth.

Secret agents in fiction are projected like ideal men, ‘Tall dark and handsome’. They are usually well built and have beautiful women to accompany them. They would always smoke pipe or cigar and do death defying stunts. James Bond is a very famous character by Ian Fleming. Movies based on James Bond show hi-tech gizmos which assist the detective in countering villains. But there are some exceptions as well. There is a character named Feluda which was created by Satyajit Ray, the famous Bangla Filmmaker. Feluda despite being a strongly built man adept in martial arts, relies mostly upon his superb analytical ability and observation skill ,mostly referred to as the Magajastra or brain-weapon to solve cases instead of using physical strength or weapons.

Ausable is different from other secret agents in more than one way . He has a small room in the musty corridor of a gloomy French hotel. It was the sixth and topmost floor and it was scarcely the setting for a romantic adventure. Ausable was extremely fat. Inspite of living in Paris for over twenty years, he spoke French and German moderately and had an American accent. Instead of getting messages slipped into his hands by dark-eyed beauties, he got only a telephone call making an appointment. In these ways, he was different from the conventional notion of a spy.

Fowler is a writer and he had come to meet Ausable. Fowler’s first authentic thrill of the day came when he saw a man in Ausable’s room pointing a pistol towards Ausable and himself.

Books are known to be as man's best companion. They can make us mentally strong,improve our vocabulary and enhance the horizon of our knowledge.Books can be our guide and best friend. 

I love to read books, especially the ones that have children as their main character and the story highlights their psychology and how innocent the children could be. One such book is Malgudi Days written by a very renowned author R K Narayan . I love this book because the story revolves around the children. The way child’s psychology has been depicted in this book is what gives me pleasure while reading this book.

When M. and Mme Loisel realized that the necklace was missing, they tried finding out where she could have possibly lost it. They concluded that it might have dropped in the cab they were traveling in. But they did not remember its number.So, in an attempt to find the necklace, Loisel went over the track where they had walked. When he found nothing, he went to the police and to the cab offices. He even put an advertisement in the newspapers, offering a reward. Meanwhile he asked Matilda to write a letter to Mme Forestier, explaining that she had broken the clasp of the necklace and would get it repaired and return it soon. This gave them time to find the necklace. However, they eventually decided to replace the necklace with a new one.

The course of the Loisel’s life changed due to the necklace. After replacing the lost necklace with a new one, they had to repay all the money that they had borrowed to buy the new necklace. They sent away the maid and changed their lodgings. They rented some rooms in an attic. Matilda learnt the odious work of the kitchen. She washed the dishes, soiled linen, their clothes and dishcloths. She even took down the refuse to the street each morning and brought up the water, stopping at each landing to catch her breath. She went to the grocer’s, the butcher’s, and the fruitier’s, with a basket on her arm, shopping, haggling to save her money. Loisel worked in the evenings, putting the books of some merchants in order. At night, he did copy work at five sou a page. This lasted for ten years, and at the end of the said period, they were finally able to repay their lenders.

In his short career as a thief, he has studied reactions of so many people when they are robbed off their belongings .He has observed that the greedy people showed fear; the rich showed anger and the poor people showed acceptance.

The thief thinks that on discovering the theft, Anil’s face would show a touch of sadness. The sadness would not be for the loss of money, but for the loss of trust.

When Hari asks Anil if he could work for him, Anil replies that he could not pay him. Finally, they reach an agreement that if he would cook, then Anil would feed him. However, Anil soon found out that he did not know how to cook. So, he taught him how to cook and later, how to write his name. He promised he would teach him how to write whole sentences and also how to add numbers. Apart from this, when Hari went out to buy the day’s supplies, he would make a profit of a rupee a day.

Hari Singh’s observation about Anil having irregular income and Anil’s statement about his sale of a book to a publisher indicates that he is a struggling writer. He lives life according to the amount of money he gets at a given time. When he has the money he enjoys eating out with his friends. When he is having less money then he even doesn't pay salary to Hari Singh.This shows that he easily makes adjustments in his life without letting anything disturb him.

Anil does not hand the thief over to the police because he realized that Hari has already learnt a lesson and he has changed for better now. Otherwise he would have never put the money back in its place. Though Anil knew how Hari cheated him of a rupee while buying the daily supplies but he never made it obvious in front of him. Anil wants to give Hari one more chance to mend his ways and thus forgives him. Hari's case is such that nobody would have forgiven him and straightaway handed him over to the police.But Anil is a little different from such employers because he is modest in nature and does not want another person to suffer without giving him a chance to become a better person.

I don’t think that people like Anil and Hari Singh are found only in fiction. There are such people in real life also. Although they are rare in today’s society but yes, they do exist. The first reaction of people, If someone is caught stealing, is that they will try to punish him and then hand him over to the police.But it should be realized that humans are bound to make errors but that doesn't let them loose a chance to rectify their mistake and change for good. At least a chance to reform should be given to that person.This is the only way to bring anyone to right path rather than punishing severely and thus making him a criminal forever.

This story is in reference to the play ‘If I Were You’. Gurrad was captured by a criminal and when he pointed a gun towards him ,Gurrad treated the criminal as a guest and trapped him in his confidence. He succeeded in making the criminal to run away as police was behind him. He told the criminal to run through the exit door, which was actually a cupboard door. The criminal exited through the door and was caught in the cupboard.

The arrival of a stranger at an Inn in winter was in itself a strange occurrence. In addition, the stranger had an uncommon appearance. In spite of Mrs Hall’s repeated attempts to be friendly, he would respond in a cold manner. He told her that he had no desire to talk and wanted to live in solitude. He did not wish to be disturbed in his work. For all these strange reasons ,she regarded him as an eccentric scientist.

He used to steal every year so that he could buy the rare and expensive books that he loved to collect. He planned meticulously before attempting a burglary, stole enough to last twelve months and secretly bought the books, through an agent.

The real culprit is the woman who pretended to be a member of the family living at Shotover Grange. She tricked Horace into believing her, and cleverly took away all the jewels that were kept in the safe.

Yes, one does begin to suspect before the end of the story that the lady was not the person Horace Danby took her to be. She was unusually calm on seeing Horace. This seemed strange enough. When she did not call the police, and instead asked Horace to break open the safe and take out all the jewels from it. It seemed suspicious. Moreover, it also seemed unlikely that she would forget the code to open the safe. Therefore, it was evident, before the story ended, that the lady was not the person Horace had taken her to be.

A lady standing in the doorway is speaking to Horace Danby. She is young and pretty, and is dressed in red. She said she had come just in time, or else her family would have been robbed by Horace. She, thus, pretended to be one of the members of the family living at Shotover Grange.

“Ends do not justify means”, this is a very old saying and has been tested many a times. Nobody should harm others for its own benefit . But this world doesn't function on idealism. There are many examples of people duping others for quick gains and earning easy money.But crime is crime even if done for something good. These acts should be deplored and dealt with severely.

Yes, Bholi enjoys her first day at school as she was glad to find so many girls almost of her own age present there. She hoped that one of these girls might become her friend.

This is a normal practice in India that girls seldom oppose their parent’s choice for a groom. The upbringing of daughters does a kind of mental conditioning which doesn’t give them enough courage to rebel against their parent’s wish. Bholi more or less followed the tradition of being an ideal Indian girl and agreed to an unequal match because she felt lucky to get a well-to-do groom who owned a big shop, had a house of his own and had several thousand in the bank. Moreover, he was not asking for any dowry. Bholi also heard her mother saying that he did not know about her pock-marks and her lack of sense. If the proposal was not accepted, she might remain unmarried all her life. Later on when the groom bared his greed to everyone, it repulsed Bholi and she opposed the marriage. Unlike her sisters, Bholi is educated and has a mind of her own. She is as independent as any other modern girl of a big city. On seeing her father pleading and getting humiliated, she decided not to marry him. 

This tells us that she loves and respects her parents , has self respect and knows what is right or wrong and is able to take a wise decision.

Bholi is sent to school because there is little chance of her getting married because of her ugly face and lack of sense.Also her father has to send her as the village headman has commanded him to do so.

The world Bholi means a simpleton. Throughout the story she had been a simpleton ,hardly expressing her opinion in any matter. The word Sulekha means the person with beautiful sense of letters. In this story this word has a larger meaning . It depicts being a literate, intelligent and mature individual. After her education Bholi has really changed to Sulekha and her assertion during marriage is her announcement to the world that she is no more a Bholi but Sulekha.