Oops ! Hows That Again? - Summary | The Magic of Words

English | Summary | Unit Four: Humour
Oops! How's That Again | Roger Rosenblatt

            The essay deals with the mistakes people make when speaking and the reasons why they make mistakes. As a natural trait, everybody makes mistakes. Some mistakes are easy to take whereas others are not.

One Sentence Summary of All Chapters in Magic in Words

1. My Heart Leaps up when I behold
The poem " My Heart Leaps up When I Behold" is about the joy the poet feels at the sight of a rainbow which has been source of his ecstasy since his childhood and will continue to be so till his old age.

2. Speaking of Children
One child is an appendage and the parents can have privacy and proper guidance of the child where as the plural children is the end of privacy and the beginning of the obligations.

3. Look at a Teacup
 The writer who has decided to remain unmarried fearing disintegration, inherits china cups from her mother which were bought in 1939 and they have the pictures of falling flowers, which are significant and symbolical.

The Worn Path - Summary | The Magic of Words

English | Summary | Unit Two: Men, Women and Children

A Worn Path | Eudora Welty

            “A Worn Path” is a story of unconscious heroism, firm dignity and innocent humour, shown by an old African American woman Phoenix Jackson. The story decides Jackson’s journey from her house to the town. She had a grandson, who had been suffering from a throat pain ever since he swallowed lye. They lived in a village behind the hill. Their house was a long way from the town Natchez. It was the month of December and an occasion of Christmas, so she had to go the town to get some medicine and Christmas gifts for her grandson.