2. Aim of chapter
To learn & understand
the human values.
To feel that where there
is a will, there is a way.
There is no age bar to
attain responsibility.
3. Glossary
Word Meaning P.O.S
Tunic A loose short noun
Demeanour Appearance & behavior adjective
Artless Innocent adjective
Put out Annoyed adjective
Vestible Lobby noun
Scarce Not enough adjective
Resemblance Similarity adjective
Dwelling A place where one lives verb
Starvation Hunger noun
Brisk Active, Fast adverb
4. About the Author:
A. J. CroninA. J. Cronin (1896-1974) was a doctor
by training. He practiced medicine in
Wales and in London. It was while
recovering from a breakdown in
Castle. It was a huge Success.
health that he wrote his first novel Hatter’s
Cronin gave up practicing medicine and took to
writing as career. He wrote a number of novels and short stories. Among his
best known novels are The Citadel, The key of the kingdom, The Spanish
Gardener.
About the Author:
5. The story recounts the hard life chosen by two
young boys so that they could pay for the
treatment of their sister afflicted with
Tuberculosis. The boys’ sacrifice, their sincerity
and devotion to the cause and the maturity
they display in their actions give a new hope
for humanity.
7. Summary
The story starts with entry of Author & his sister in Verona
and two small boys stopped them and ask to buy some wild
strawberries. But their driver warned them that do not buy
them. When the author reached to hotel, he saw the two boys
were polishing shoes. He discovered that the two boys were
brothers. Everyday author saw them doing different works.
The two boys do a lot of work for author also. But the Author
was very curious to know that why the boys were doing a lot
of work in a small age. After some days they become author’s
friend. One day author was going somewhere in his car, he
saw the two boys going outside. He asked them to come with
him, he will drop them to their destination. Disheartedly they
agreed and get inside author’s car. They stopped car suddenly
8. and said that they will come in only 1 hour. After a few
minutes author followed them and discovered that they gone
in a hospital. A nurse introduced him the boys and a girl on
bed, who is about twenty & is their sister; suffering from
tuberculosis of spine. She also tell that their father, a widower,
a well known singer had been killed in early part of war. Their
house was destroyed in a bomb explosion. Every month
somehow they pay the fees of hospital. This devotion had
touched the author deeply.
