MY MUSINGS

Chapter: We're Not Afraid To Die.... If We

All Can Be Together
This chapter tells about the extreme skill and bravery shown by
everyone. It's not only an adventure but also shows us the togetherness
and faith. It tells us that there's nothing to worry about if we all are
together.

The story is about a world long voyage and the difficulties faced and how
they overcome everything. it's just soo thrilling that makes me feel like
going on an adventure like this. The way everything was shown was soo
interesting that it felt like I was with them, the happy times like
Christmas which suddenly becomes bad for them all these made me soo
eager to read more.
As well, I was really moved by the bravery
shown by everyone especially the children,
how they told their parents not to worry
about them and how everything will be all
right. Suzane his 7-year-old daughter had soo
many injuries but still never told her parents as she thought that right
distract them, Jonathan the 6-year-old told them that we all will be fine if
we are together. The maturity showed moved me soo much.

This story teaches us an important lesson of

how we should have faith and trust our family
or others in times of need and it shows how
our family is soo important and we should
always trust and appreciate each other.
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Chapter: The Ailing Planet: The Green
Movements Role
Conservation is the need of the hour. Without conserving our planet, we will
soon lose it. The chapter, The Ailing Planet emphasizes on the need to
making conservation our priority.

The author brings our attention to the critical

condition of our planet. Man’s recklessness,
greed and indifference to the needs of the
planet, have made its condition really bad.
After reading this chapter it made me question
what i did every day and did it affect the
environment. The zoo in Lusaka which has a cage labelled 'The worlds most
dangerous animal' it only has a mirror and nothing else made me realise
that how we humans use the resource ruthlessly. Even though we know
about this it keeps happening, we keep exploiting it. A large number of
species are there on the Earth and everyone has an equal right to live on this
planet but the point is raised about the domination of the human race over
other species. The concept of coexistence is lost.

This chapter also tells how we are borrowing this earth from our children. So
it depends on us if we want to save our children. Our actions will have a
really great impact on this planet. Sustainable Development is a method of
using our resource very wisely by thinking of the net generation and the
current. This method if used by everyone will not only help the future but
this planet also.
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Chapter: Ranga's Marriage
This story shows us how child marriage was
practised at that time. Even though it's
banned now it is still practised in some
areas. Child brides are neither physically
nor emotionally ready to become wives and
mothers. They face more risks of
experiencing dangerous complications in
pregnancy and childbirth, contract. With little
access to education opportunities, the families don't understand
about its ill effects.

The chapter shows how ranga's ideal bride would be someone of his
age and it would be a love marriage. But when he comes to the village
the Shastri and the narrator manipulate him and he ends up marrying
a child. But the way the author narrates the story is interesting, how
he describes his village its beauty and culture. The delicacy
'karigadabbu', the mango trees, the pond and everything and tells us
how his village Hossahalli is really beautiful. This all made me feel that
all these villages and small town are really beautiful and make me
want to go there.
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Chapter: Albert Einstein At School
The lesson “Albert Einstein at School” is an extract from the
biography of Albert Einstein, named “The Young Einstein” by
Patrick Pringle. In this lesson, we see the years in Einstein’s
life where he was struggling each day in school and as each
day passed, the school diploma felt like a far-fetched dream.

Seeing how Albert Einstein

questions the education
system made me also think
that are we also just
learning plain facts. Albert
disliked his neighbourhood
because of all the slum violence, he had only one friend, Yuri.
They had a really good bond, Yuri had helped him get an
appointment with a doctor which would help him go to Italy
and continue his studies there as he didn't like his school
here at all. The doctor was helpful as he understood that he
really has a nervous breakdown because of his school and
even his maths teacher knew that it was better for him to
join a college and it would not benefit anyone if he was here.
He gave him a really good recommendation which
encouraged him a lot. This lesson teaches us to be focused
on our goal even if there are barriers in our way.
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Chapter: Mother's Day

This lesson shows the importance of mothers in a

family and how people neglect it and how most of
us do not appreciate how much our mothers work
for the family. It shows
how the family gets
angry at the mother
because their needs
are not met. Seeing
Cyril and Doris's
behaviour with their
mom made me angry,
I realised that maybe I have done this and now I
should make sure that I should also help my
mother in all the household work and be a helping
hand to her. We should all appreciate our mothers
by helping her, asking her about her problems and
just appreciate her in any way, this gesture of ours
will really make them happy.

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