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A presentation on two gentlemen of Verona from the text book of class tenth

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Two gentlemen of verona is aStory of two poor brothers.

They earn money and spend it On the treatment of her sister.Their sister is seriously injured

During the war of partition.

The short story

Archibald Joseph Cronin (19 July 1896–6 January 1981) was a Scottish physician and novelist. His best-known works are Hatter's Castle, The Stars Look Down, The Citadel, The Keys of the Kingdom and The Green Years, all of which were adapted to film. He also created the Dr. Finlay  character, the hero of a series of stories that served as the basis for the popular  BBC television and radio series entitled Dr. Finlay's Casebook.

The author

He was a doctor by training. He practiced medicine in Wales and in London. It was while recovering from a breakdown in health that he wrote his first novel Hatter’s Castle. It was a huge success. Hence, he left practicing medicine n chose writing as a career..

THE AUTHOR

SUMMARYOne day the author was passing through the outskirts of verona

then he saw two poor boys were selling strawberries the author

wants to buy the strawberries but his driver stopped him to buy the strawberries form them. Because

they had wore very shabby clothes and untidely dressed. The two boys

are the brothers named nicola at the age about 13 and jacopo at the

age about12.

Next morning he saw the boys working as the shoeshine boys. The boys helped the author in many ways like they told the author about the good restaurants book the seats in opera for the author and etc. They do many things as

they told to author because they have a spirit to work.

One night they are waiting for the last bus from padua to sell the

news papers.The author asked them

that what are you waiting for? They

answered that we are waiting for the last bus from the padua to sell

newspapers.

THE NEXT MORNING, AUTHOR ASKED THE BOYS THAT YOU MUST EARN QUITE A BIT BUT DO NOT SPEND ON YOUR CLOTHES MEALS SO WHAT DID YOU DO WITH THAT MONEY? THEY REPLIED WITH TURNING THEIR FACES DOWN THAT WE HAVE OTHER PLANS. WHAT PLANS? ASKED AUTHOR, JUST PLANS SIR HE REPLIED IN A LOW VOICE.

The author told them that we are leaving on Monday is there any

thing we can do for you before leave .

Jacopo said that “every Sunday we make a visit

to the country, to poleta, 30 km from

here.

Usually we hire bicycles. But tomorrow, since you are so kind, you

might send us in your car.”Nicola said we do not want to

troubling sir.It won’t be any trouble.

ON SUNDAY THEY ARE GOING TO POLETA

We will come back only after an hour sir. may be you did like to go to the café in the

village for the drink? They disappearBeyond the corner of the wall.

Then the author asked the nurse.she take him to the front of the room in which the sister of of the boys were admitted and told him to peek inside the room from the window and he saw the boys.

Then from the nurse he get to know that their

sister got seriously injured during the war of partition and from

then the boys are only paying the whole

payment for her sister. They only earn for her.

Then the writer did not tell the boys that he knew about their sister. Because he thought that

they will prefer to keep their secret from any stranger.

The end of the story. At last the author says that

their devotion had touched me deeply.

because it is a kind story I also liked it

THE END

MADE BY : AAYUSH SHARMA

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