The document provides summaries of various literary works: - It summarizes the plots of novels like The Mill on the Floss, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Village by the Sea, Malgudi Days, Sonar Kella, The Bluest Eye, Animal Farm, Heart of Darkness, A Farewell to Arms, Emma, The God of Small Things, and The Weave of My Life. - It also briefly describes TV or film adaptations of some works and their educational value. - The summaries highlight key characters, events, themes, and lessons of each work in just a few sentences.

1. Mehta Drashti B.
B.A.
S.N.D.T Women’s University. Mumbai.
Smt. N. C. Gandhi Mahila Arts and
Commerce college, Bhavnagar .

3. The Mill On The Floss
• Mr. Tulliver
• Maggie
• Tom
• Maggie’s mother’s
dissatisfaction towards
her own daughter
having dark complexion

4. • Philip
• St. Ogg
• Dorlcott Mill
• Maggie’s love
• Tom’s love
• Bothe brother and sister’s love
• Meet to tragedy

5. Charlie and the chocolate Family
Roland Dahl
• Romantic fanciful story
of a boy
• Child coming from poor
family
• Won the lottery for visit
of Chocolate Factory
• Visited the factory

6. • Makes the life more better for his family
members
• Mr. Wonka, the owner of the factory gives the
factory to Charlie at the end
• Child’s journey

7. The Village by the Sea
Anita Desai
• Anita Desai’s own
writing style
• Hari’s journey
• Lila, Bela, Kamal and
the family management

8. Malgudi days
• R.K. Narayan’s series of
short stories
• Serial based on this
• Sony Entertainment
Television and
Doordarshan
• Learning through
entertainment
• Edutainment

9. Sonnar Kella
• Dream sequence
• Detective Novel
• Mukul Dhar-
remembers all his past
events
• Dr. Hajra and Prodosh
Mitter started discovry
of that place about
which Mukul was
talking

10. • Burman and Mandar Bose villians becomes
alert
• Mukul’s kidnapping
• Mukul’s father consults Feluda, the private
investigator
• Jatayu- a popular thriller writer meets Topshe
and Feluda
• Burman and Bose befriend Dr. Hajra
• All reaches at the end at the place

11. • There was never ever any fortress
• Mukul was cured at the end
• All went to Kolkata
• ‘The Golden Fortress’ or ‘The Sonnar Kella’,
here Gold as a symbol of wish or desire.

12. The Bluest Eye
• Toni Morrisons
• Nine year old Pecola,
Claudia’s story
• Racism, story of Blacks,
desire to get bluest eys

13. • How power operates
• How power can destroy the life of a girl

14. The Calcutta Chromosome
• A Science Fiction
• A kind of mystery thriller
• Several characters are in
many roles
• Antar working alone in
nNewyork apartment,
employee of The
Lifewatch organisation
• Murugan
• Ronald Ross
• Phulboni
• Urmila Roy

15. • Malaria Research
• Strange cycle of Lakhan stories
• Thus group's research using the chromosome-
transfer technique would advance even
further.
• The Blend of superstition, science, past,
present, future, modernism and
industrialisation
• Makes readers interest in the science more,
how India is presented in a fair light

16. Animal Farm
• George Orwell-Animal
Farm
• Old Major, the old boar
on The Manor Farm
• Teaches the animals a
revolutionary song
called “Beasts of
England”.

17. • When major dies, two young pigs, Snowball
and napoleon, assume command and duty to
prepare for the rebellion
• The Animals revolt and drive the drunken and
irresponsible farmer Mr. Jones from the farm,
renaming it “Animal Farm”.
• They adopt seven commandments of
animalism, the most important of which is,
“All Animals are Equal”.

18. • Snowball teaches the animals to read and write ,
while Napoleon educates young puppies on the
principal of Animalism.
• Food is plentiful and the farm runs smoothly
• Snowball and Napoleon planed in opposition to
each other
• Snowball becomes scapegoat
• Windmill
• Beasts of England is replaced by an Anthem
glorifying Napoleon, who appears to be adopting
the lifestyle of a man
• The animals remain convinced that they are
better than they were under Mr. Jones

19. • Mr. Frederick, neighboring farmer attacks ,
animals win, Boxer fights despite of the injuries
continues working harder and harder, was killed
• Animals started living like human beings live
• Habit like human beings
• As Human beings sometimes acts like Animals
• The seven commandments are abridged to a
single phrase:
• “All animals are equal but some animals are more
equal than others”
– Napoleon restores the name “The Manor Farm”

20. • As animals look from pigs to humans, they
realize they can no longer distinguish between
the two
• So Men V/s Animals
• Animals V/S Men.
• Mirror image
• Irony
• Symbolism
• Nature, Human Nature

21. Joseph Conrad Heart of
Darkness
• Joseph Conrad’s Heart of
Darkness
• Marlow’s Job as an ivory
transporter down the
Congo
• Through his journey, he
developes an interest in
investigating Kurtz, an
Ivory procurement agent

22. • Marlow is shocked upon seeing what the
European traders have done to the natives.
• Setting Vietnam
• The three most important aspects of the novella;
• 1) he wanted the language of the novella to make
the reader feel like they were fighting through he
jungle, just like Marlow fight through the jungle
in search of Kurtz
• 2) symbolically shows the picture of America’s
involvement in Vietnam and the potential
darkness that lies in all human hearts

23. • 3) symbollically shows the darkness of those
Heart who were send in fight
• Anonymous narrator, at the end narrator’s
attitudes changes
• Learning objectives:
• Only the narrator and the reader understands
Marlow’s initial points; civilized European was
once “Dark Place” and it has only become
more morally dark through the activities of
institutions like the company.

24. Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms
• Not complicated book
• Simple story, flashback
technique
• Earnest Hemingway’s
style
• American ambulance
driver Frederick Henry
• His lover Catherine
Barkley’s past , her fiance
was killed in battle in
France

25. • Historical and geographical background of the
World War 1
• Intensity of Catherine and Frederick’s love
• No subplots and minor characters
• Frederick gives farewell to arms, later his
beloved becomes pregnant
• His beloved dies
• Learning Objective: This is how as he tries to
be away from his duty, but the result is before
us

26. • One can’t be unfaithful to his own country as
well as to his relation
• Patriotism and love

27. Emma by Jane Austen
• Emma Woodhouse
• No mother, Only
daughter and Father
• She herself never
marries
• Typical woman
character
• Match maker

28. • Harriet
• Mr. Elton
• Mr. Martin
• Mr. Knightley
• Mr. Weston
• Miss Bates
• Jane
• Frank
• Emma
• Mr. Woodhouse

29. • Mr. Martin Harriet marries
• Mr. Knightley and Emma
• Learning Objective: How character develops
throughout the novel, improvement in self
• Self education, learning throughout life

30. The God of Small Things: Arundhati
Roy
• A town named Aymanam,
now part of Kottayam
district in Kerala, India
• Ammu, Mammachi,
Pappachi, Dowry System
• Rahel, Estha, Ammu’s
children
• Baby Kochamma, Velutha

31. • "It didn't matter that the story had begun,
because Kathakali discovered long ago that
the secret of the Great Stories is that they
have no secrets. The Great Stories are the
ones you have heard and want to hear again.
The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit
comfortably. They don't deceive you with
thrills and trick endings."—The God of Small
Things

32. • Dalit women
• Marriage, caste, family
• Ammu’s life
• How relationship fails, and reunited

33. The Weave of My Life
• Dalit women’s memoir
• Excellent story teller
• Untouchable caste
woman in India
• Symbol of Weaving
• Hinduism and
Buddhism

34. Sources:
• Gradenotes.com
• enotes.com
• Wikipedia
• Sparknotes.com
• Cliffnotes.com
• Shamoop.com
• Original text