E.M.forster was a great english novelist. he wrote many novels,short stories and essays. in the book "the passage of india" . he mentions about the first paragraph of "my wood". its is witty eassay describing opinion the essence of materialism and the seductive energy of human property.

3. Edward Morgan Forster OM CH (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970)
was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist.
Many of his novels examined class difference and hypocrisy,
including A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910)
and A Passage to India (1924). The last brought him his greatest
success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16
different years.
In the 1930s and 1940s Forster became a notable broadcaster
on BBC Radio and a public figure associated with the Union of
Ethical Societies. In addition to his broadcasting, he advocated
individual liberty and penal reform and opposed censorship by
writing articles, sitting on committees and signing letters. His
weekly book review during the war was commissioned by George
Orwell, who was the talks producer at the India Section of the BBC
from 1941 to 1943.

4. In the essay “My Wood” by E. M. Forster is trying to tell
us that we got to be careful because humans are selfish
and once we got something we want, we will want more
and more until we have lost full control; for example, in
the essay they talk about the author buying a small piece
of land.
At first that small piece of land had an open road that
the public can pass by and for the author that was
enough and felt like home, but after a while the author
kept looking right and left and realized that his land
was the smallest land there and everyone else had
gigantic lands with a lot of beautiful things.

5. The author is trying to let us know that owning a piece of
land makes the owner feel heavy and important; therefore,
they start to wish for a larger piece of land. It also make the
owner feel that he got to do something to it, and lastly he
wants it all for him selves, so he wants to block the public
path.
Once we got something we are going to want more until we
have better things than anyone near us; therefore, the author
toward the end wanted to build a tall fence to block the public
from going inside his land.

6. Also, once the author looks at his neighbors and sees
something nice he will want something way better than what
they have to show off. Owning a piece of land or something
of your own can make you change completely who you are;
therefore, I believe that I prefer to have nothing but people I
love around me. For instance, the author is a perfect example
of how people can let their ownership controls everything in
their life such as his own family, and life.
A person can become so obsesses with making their land
unique, huge, and pretty that can totally forget about the few
things that are important to him such as family, friends, and
himself.

7. When a people gets power they put it over everything
such as creating debits to fix up the place or even risking
their own home and children’s future for a simple
obsession that is not worth it. A few of those people end
up with nothing because their family will leave for his
obsession, and lose the land that changed him because
of the debits.
In my opinion like I mention above is that I prefer to
have nothing but a family and friends who are
willing to love me like I am willing to love them.

8. I believe that in this life all we need is love to be able to
survive; with love, we can overcome everything. A piece of
land will not give me the love and happiness I need it will
only give me a headache and end up alone and with no
one in my side; therefore, I prefer to have nothing but a
family who shares love with me.

9.  FOSTER express the belief that material things are
harmful for their owners.
 He deliver the message that wealth doesn’t last forever.
 Forster gives indirect meaning to several of his
sentences, such as; “My wood makes me feel heavy.”
He gives the sentence a subliminal meaning, and the
reader must find out what Forster is implying. He
continues to elaborate on why his wood makes him
feel heavy, and ends his paragraph again stating that
his wood makes him feel heavy. The manipulation of
sentences alluded.

10.  Foster’s essay is metaphorically describing the steps to
build an empire. In his essay he talks about the ownership
of a piece of wood and the effect it had on him. First he felt
that owning the wood make him feel heavy, in other words,
when ruling an empire it gives you pride. Second it makes
him feel that he had to make it larger and he also felt that
he has to protect his woods.
 All these effects make me think that he is really talking
about an empire. At first I really thought that he was
actually talking about his property, but then with the help
of my professor I came to realize that Foster wanted his
reader to see more than just a piece of wood.