LOVE STORY – by Erich Segal

• Love Story is a delightful novel written by Erich Segal, one of the best authors of fiction. The wit and charm, the most important characteristics of this adept author, are clearly evident in this great masterpiece of him. The novel truly depicts the spiritual relationship between two lovers and the power of love that can turn lifeless figures into emotions.

• The whole story revolves around Mr. Barett, a sporty and intelligent student of Harvard University. In spite of being the son of an affluent person he never takes everything for granted and gives his best effort to be the jack of all trades. The meetings of Mr. Barett and Ms. Cavillery, whom he meets at Radcliffe, are very aptly described to keep reader guessing about the course of their love story. After there marriage, there comes a sharp emotional turn in the story when Mr. Barett gets to know that her wife is having countable days with him. The events transform Mr. Barett from stubborn to very sensitive person shouldering the burden of loss of her partner.

• Though Mr. Barett is presented as a stubborn and emotionless person in the beginning, his sporty and intellectual attitude is indeed very impressive. The wit and charm of character he shows in his meetings with Ms. Cavillery wins him reader’s appreciation. The loss of her love makes one feel for him. Through this character the author has highlighted the love, being highly spiritual feeling.

• On the whole story is very interesting and one admires the use of words and expressions which are very fitting to the circumstances. The rich use of language and exciting story makes the reading a memorable experience for all especially the young generation.

Animal Farm by George Orwell

• The story of Animal Farm written by George Orwill is very well written story of various animals and birds living together in a single farm. The novel depicts the existence of pedagogy not only in humans but also in animals. It is a very unorthodox story with different animals occupying the centre stage highlighting the fact that lack of harmony does not exists amongst humans only but is also there in animals. It also presents the importance of literacy amongst all species. Not only humans but animals also needs to be literate and aware of one’s surroundings to prevent themselves from being coaxed and exploited.

• The story begins with the Manor Farm owned by Mr. Jones who exploits animals of the farm for monetary gains and in return gives them starvation and slavery. The way animals hold clandestine meetings against the human whip keeps the reader’s anticipation high about the spate of imminent events. Unlike expected, that the things will improve with the successful win of animals over Mr. Jones, the farm goes more disarrayed, thanks to the clever and “literate” pigs. The writer has clearly depicted the politics being involved even amongst animals through the pigs who enjoy all the comforts without any hard work unlike their fellow animals, by exploiting the natural tendency inherit in all animals to set themselves free from human atrocities.

• Author has also highlighted a strong quality of loyalty in animals through a very strong and lively character of Boxer, a horse strongest of all animals in the farm. The way he fight battles with the humans to prevent his farm, and the loyalty he carries for his master makes him earn the tag of being best of all animals of the farm. But the event in which their pig master Napoleon sends him to the horse slaughterer, after being old and incapable of working for him, is indeed very emotional and touching. And the Napoleon enjoys all his powers and control over the animal farm.

• But finally the intentions of corrupt Napolean are exposed when he celebrates with humans in charge of other neighboring farms. All the animals know the politics their leader played with them in the name of providing them with liberty from starvation and slavery of humans.

• It’s one of the most interesting but at the same time a sarcastic book. The language is very simple and lucid but also very apt and substantive. It is a good reading for people of all age group and will be very appealing because of it’s analogy with modern world politics that exist at every level.

Brain Teaser

Today I came across a great brain teaser which goes like this :

There are 20 statements in total.

Every nth statement say that at least n statements are wrong.

Then how many statements are correct out of 20.

CAT question

I got to know about one very noticeable difference b/w the use of “continuously” and “continually ” that I think is worth sharing.

Here are the two sentences.

1. The telephone bell rang continuously

2. The telephone bell rang continually

Which of the above two sentences do you think is correct?

For answer and explanations refer “comments” column

White and Black Hat Puzzle

Hey friends!!

I recently came across a puzzle in my discreet mathematic course. I liked the puzzle a lot and would like to share that with you. It goes this way :-

There is one king and his council include some members. Every member wears a hat that can be of white or black color. Nobody can see the color of his/her own cap but can see the color of other’s cap. Number of times the king comes to council is equal to the number of caps of a particular color(either black or white). It’s the duty of council to inform the king when he arrives in the council for the last time. Council members cannot converse with each other. How will the members of council tell the king that he is there for the last time.