Summary Of The Best Investment I Ever Made By A.J.Cronin

"The Best Investment I Ever Made" was written by A.J Cronin. He was a physician, Scottish novelist, dramatist and non-fiction writer. He was one of the most popular storytellers in the 20th century.

This was a real story that happens in his life. Cronin was travelling on a ship. He saw one of the passengers watching him closely. Cronin was fatigued so he avoids him. The next day at forenoon the same passenger watching him, but this time the passenger wife was with him. Cronin discovered their name was Mr and Mrs John.

On the next day evening, they spoke with Cronin. This was their first visit to America. They were inviting many young people to summer camps there. Mr and Mrs John had been active for 15 years in the field of youth welfare. John was a solicitor and a director of an organisation devoted to taking care of boys and girls who had fallen under the ban of the law. Mr John spoke something in Cronin's ears. Now Cronin recognises Mr John.

At the quarter of his life century, Cronin was a young doctor. On one day November night, a sergeant knock Cronin's door, to attend a suicide case. Everyone thinks that the patient will die because the patient is in critical condition. After a few hours, the patient opens his eyes. He told them his name was John, he was an orphan. He has an uncle but he didn't do his responsibility. His uncle gets him, clerk position in the London Solicitor office. At there he made bad companions and bet on horses. So that he lost all his small savings. To earn all his earnings back he theft a sum of money from the office and bet on horses, but this idea was failed. So he shut himself in his room and turned on the gas.

On hearing this Cronin, Sergeant, the landlady came forward to help him. The sergeant does not make the report upon this case. The landlady offers John a month's freeboard until he got up on his feet again. Cronin gave seven pounds and ten shillings to put back the money in the office.

At last, John said to Cronin this incident made him help boys and girls. Cronin was happy to see. He felt happy that this one good investment in his life was helping many others person life.

Summary Of The Poem "Woman To Man" Written by Judith Wright

                 The poem "Woman To Man" was written by the famous Australian poet, Judith Wright. She was a critic, short story writer, environmentalist and social activist campaigning for Aboriginal rights.

                  This poem is addressed by a woman to a man. She talks to her man about the life they have created together. This poem reflecting the speaker's ambivalent feelings towards the child. She expresses a feeling of fear and nervousness at the idea of labour. In Pregnancy, women suffer a lot when compared to men. 

                    The speaker is a new mother in the poem. She refers to her baby as "the eyeless labourer". Babygrows every day in the darkness of the womb. It has no definite shape, gender, identity. For her, it is only a precious seed. The process of baby growth is silent, swift and far from sight.

                     She was unable to imagine the baby with a particular face because it is growing in the womb. She says that the child has no name as yet to call it by. She and her partner created the baby by their hunting. Here the hunting refers to sexual pleasure.

                      Man and Woman play an important role in the life of a child. Man for Financial support and woman for carrying the baby. She imagines her baby as a tree that is a product of her blood and flesh. The folded rose is the baby created from their passion and its unfurling is the miracle of birth. 

                       The child is both a maker and made. During childbirth, the baby pushing its way out of the darkness of the womb, towards the daylight guided by the surgeon's knife. She tells her man to hold her as she is afraid.

CHARGE SHEET

                 "Charge Sheet" is a translation of Mu. Metha's Tamil Poem "Kutrap Pattrikkai" by Dr R.David Raja Bose.

                   The Poem is written in a freestyle. This Poem is about the broken heart of an adult in his love life. The poem is set in a village background.

                    At night the whole village is asleep but the narrator can't sleep because of his lover memories. He lay down to sleep by locking all the doors and windows in his home but still her memories entering and kicking his heart. He compares this to Kampar Epic. In Kamba Ramayanam, Rama killed Vali. Like that narrator's lover memories killing his adulthood. He waits in the ration shop where his lover works, she used to send him back by saying "no stock" so that they can meet daily. They love each other and interchange gifts like flowers, kerchief, pen, smiles. He compared his love to a toy in the hands of children. Stay with my love in your hands like children stays with their toy. You can play with my love or roll it but don't break it. But now she left him. When she leaves him, he completely burnt their love letters. Finally, he says, "You left me, you spoilt me by giving an excess of love. This is my Grief".