1. Summary of the novel Good-bye, Mr. Chips in English? Good-bye, Mr.

Mr. Chips is James Hiltons famous & best loved novel, which was published in the United States in June 1934 by Little, Brown & Company and in the United Kingdom in October of that same year by Hodder & Stoughton. The novel was adapted into two films & two television versions. It is about Brookfield, an old grammar school, where Mr. Chips worked as a teacher for about 45 years & ultimately rose to be its head. It is a biographical novel & deals with the life of Mr. Chips in retrospect. When the novel begins, he is a retired old man of 65. He is still healthy and fit, more importantly, in perfect peace with life. Mr. Chippings lovingly called Mr. Chips, born in 1848 of poor parent. He graduated from Cambridge university at the age of 21 and started teaching at Melbury school. There the boys troubled him a lot. After a year or so, he begins his tenure at Brookfield in 1870 at the age of 22, as the Franco-Prussian War is breaking out and lies on his deathbed shortly after Adolf Hitler's rise to power. Brookfield was an old foundation, which was established in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, as a grammar and public school. Mr. Wetherby the headmaster of that school advised Chips to hard work & to keep good discipline in classes. He went to a big hall to take his first class of 500 boys. There the boys tried to tease him. A boy named Colly dropped his desk lid by mischief. Chips punished him. When all other boys saw that they kept quiet & never tried to tease him. With passing time Chips became quite popular in the Brookfield. He was a handsome, impressive youth, fashionably dressed according to the Victorian times. He was able to establish himself as a teacher without much difficulty. In 1896, Chips was appointed as a housemaster. At that time he was 48 years old. During the summer vacation of the same year in the spring, Chips went to the Lake District with a friend Rowden. He stayed in a farmhouse at Wasdale Head. One day during the walk Mr. Chips saw a young girl standing on the edge of the rock, waving her hand. Chips took that she was in danger & was calling him for help. So he quickly moved towards the girl, but he sprained his ankle. He could not walk properly. Hence the girl came to his rescue. She took Mr. Chips to his place where he was stationed. Actually she was calling her friend & waving her hand towards her. The young girl was a very kind one. She had received the training as a Governess. She knew how to bring first-aid to a needy person. She was a girl of 25 years. Her name was Katherine. She had also received her training in General Nursing. She attended to the sprained ankle of Mr. Chips very carefully. Both Mr. Chips and Katherine were quite different not only in their ages but in their thoughts, ideas and opinions. Katherine was a modern girl and she favored women to be strong and independent. Though Chips ideas on life were old fashioned yet they loved each other greatly. Later they were married in London.
The marriage had a very good effect on Chips. Katherine greatly influenced Mr. Chips life and so he became a man with certain good changes in his mood and behavior. He started looking at life with a new angle. He became broad-minded & his discipline in his classes improved much. He became more happy and humorous. He began making sweet jokes while teaching his students. His students not only respected and obeyed him, but also loved him. Katherine gave him good suggestions and went with him to the parties of the school. Often she sang songs for chips. Katherine died along with her newly born baby just after two years of her marriage. Chips became very sad and he also tried to resign from Brookfield. But the head master convinced him to continue his job.

Mr. Chips became very sad after his wifes death. He started living in a room of Mrs. Wicketts house which was just on the other side of the road passing by the school where he used to stay before his marriage. He took this room on rent. Though he had become quite weak in his old age. He was now 50 years old. Dr. Merivale of the Brookfield often told him that he was quite healthy Dr. Merivale visited Chips after every fourteen days. He became very serious after her death. His discipline in the classes improved much. Now he was a senior teacher and was respected by all the students and teachers at school. Chips had his particular ways of habit He did not change his gown even if it got tattered. The headmaster of the Brookfield school Meldrum died in 1900. Therefore Chips became the acting headmaster of the school in the beginning of the 20th century. The new headmaster, Ralston, came there after some time. Ralston was a young man, 37 years old. His ideas of life were quite modern. Chips never had good relations with Ralston because of their thinking and ideas were contrary to each other. When Mr. Chips was 60, Mr. Ralston asked him to resign from the job as he had grown old and checked the growth of the school. Mr. Chips refused to resign. A school boy heard all this angry talk between them. Soon it came to be known that Ralston had insulted Chips. Chips was supported by the staff as well as by his students. The governors running the school said that chips represented the old traditions of the school & he could continue his job in the school until he had a desire to do so. At last, the new Headmaster went away in 1911. In 1911, a young man, Chatteris became the new headmaster of the Brookfield school. In 1913 Chips fell seriously ill. Therefore, he resigned from service at the age of 65. Just after his retirement, Chips went to Germany for his treatment. He returned from Germany after a month and took a room on rent at Mrs. Wicketts house. He became quite healthy after the treatment. Often he went to the Brookfield to see the matches. He became President of the Old Boys Club. He began writing articles for the Brookfield magazine and also started preparing a directory of Brookfield. When World War I breaks out, In July 1916, Chatteris came to Chips & asked him to rejoin the school. Chips, who had retired the year before at age 65, agree to come out of retirement to fill in for the various masters who have entered military service. Countless old boys and masters die on the battlefield. At one point, he reads aloud a long roster of the school's fallen alumni, and, defying the modern world he sees as soulless and lacking transcendent values of honor and friendship, dares to include the name of a German former master who has died fighting on the opposite side. In 1917 Chatteris fell ill and died once again Chips became the headmaster. Mr. Chips was very successful as headmaster. After the end of the First World War in 1918 Chips again fell seriously ill & resigned from the service for the last time. After his second and last retirement from service Chips spent most of the time at Mrs. Wicketts house. He welcomed old boys of the school to his room and entertained them with tea and cakes. He talked to them and made jokes. How he was often lost in his memories of his past. It was an afternoon November 1933, Chips became seriously ill. A small boy (Linford) came to meet him. While returning the boy, Chips remembered his wife who had spoken these words to him before his marriage Good-bye, Mr. Chips . He became unconscious When he came to his senses he found himself on a bed. Dr. Merivale Mrs. Wickett and Cartwright were standing near him. He died remembering his students.