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The Whistling Schoolboy
Lust Of Power
The name of the book which I like is 'The Whistling An interesting fact about this is
Schoolboy’. The author of this book is Ruskin Bond, who is The tragedy of Macbeth by that in the backstage world of
William Shakespeare is a play
famous for children’s stories. He has wrote the book in set in 17 century Scotland. It is theatre, some believe that the
th
very simple English and is very interesting. The best a tragic tale of sin, play is cursed, and will not
mention its title aloud, referring
extract was Letter To My Father. In this extract he has comradeship, envy, greed, love, to it as 'The Scottish Play'. This
pride, and above all guilt.
wrote a letter to his father as he walked from Dilaram To those who have not read the further elaborates the dark
Bazaarto Rajput and remembering that he and his father play, it is often misconceived as undertones and overtones of
walked here together. He also wrote about the house a well-deserved tragedy that this play.
under the road which they called Melville Hall. He wrote falls upon a demented couple. An underlying quality of the play
is that each character has been
that after riding a semi bicycle down a spring road, he got However, through the course of painstakingly worked on. The
the play one realises that the
the opening scene of this first book called Room on the story goes much deeper. It character that bewitched me
Roof. He discribed that when his dad took him to Arab accurately describes a human’s the most was Lady Macbeth, a
show , swinging for five minutes was enough for greed for power and the woman so malicious and
aggressively ambitious that she
remembering his father. He wrote about his friend Somi consequences of following such asked the Gods to render her
a path.
who he miss the most and have not seen him as an adult. The most ludicrous part was, infertile.
I loved his this extract because he missed his father the disastrous consequences of From a readers point of view,
from deep of his heart and was missing him so much Macbeth’s ambition were not even though it was Macbeth that
after he died. Even he died he wrote the letter feeling he limited to him. The most humane killed Duncan, the hands that
killed the king were Lady
is still there. The best line was that If you and I meet thing about this is that the Macbeth’s.
protagonits belief in power was
again, Dad, will you look the same , and will I be a small very profound BUT it was their A read I definitely will not
boy or an old man? This was the love of him to his dad own guilt that led to their recommend to the fainthearted.
who died to save his country. eventual downfall.
Karishma Sharma (IX)
Sanjana Jadhav (VII)
