The portrait of a lady class 11 short summary

Answer: His grandmother was an old woman. She was very old and wrinkled for twenty years. In the past , she was very pretty and beautiful and even had a husband. When I saw his photo , he wore a big turban and loose fitting clothes and the white beard covered his best of his chest and looked like as if he was a hundred years old. The time came to leave the narrator in his grandmother's home as their parents are going to city in search of job.

Grandmother and he were good friends. She used to wake him up in the morning and get him ready for the school by bathing , dressing by singing morning prayer and also used to make chapati with little butter and sugar as breakfast. She also take some chapati along with her to his school and she will give it to the village dogs.

While he went to school she used to sit in a temple beside the school and she will sing . The priest taught us alphabet and morning prayer. When it was finished they used to walk back together. The village dogs followed them .

The time came, their parents have steeled in city and joined in a new school where they taught western learning and science , this make grandmother very upset . When he went to the university, he was given a room . The common link of friendship was no more. She used to feed the sparrows in the afternoon.

When he decided to go abroad for further studies, I would we away for five years . She was sentimental. She came to leave him in the railway station but did not talk or showed any emotion. Her fingers were busy in telling the beads of rosary . As soon as he came back, he could hear that she was praying and soon she died.

They took her and laid her on the ground and covered a red shroud . After a few hours of mourning, we left her alone and the sparrows sat behind her silently and showed their sorrow and they silently flew away. The next day the sweeper swept the bread crumbs into the dustbin.

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