Page 27 - Success Plus English Language and Literature Class 10

Success Plus English Language and Literature

Sample Short Story

Given below is an incomplete outline of a story. Use it along with your own ideas to write a story
in 200–250 words. Include a setting, more characters and an ending. Do not forget to include an
interesting title.
Varun is sent a parcel with three boxes inside – inside every box is a fruit, with a piece of paper
describing the fruit – eating the first fruit will allow him to change into any animal he wants to – the
second fruit will enable him to teleport himself anywhere he wants to – the third fruit allows him
to see one week into the future – he can only eat one fruit, once he picks one the others will become
useless – what happens next?

Foresight

One sunny afternoon, Varun received a strange, unmarked parcel. Inside were three fruits and a
message that read, “Eat the first fruit to become any animal you like. Eat the second fruit to teleport
yourself anywhere. Eat the third fruit to see one week into the future. The moment you eat one fruit,
the others will become useless. Choose wisely.”

Varun stared at the message. If only he could eat all three, he wondered. But the message was clear
and he must choose. “If I become an animal,” Varun said to himself, “there is no fruit to turn me back
into a human. I love lions, but I love my family a lot more.”

“Similarly, if I teleport myself to the Alps now, there would be no way to teleport myself back. Of
what use would that wizardry be?” he wondered. There was only one choice – the fruit of foresight.
Varun held the fruit for a while and then bit into it. He quickly devoured the fruit and collected the
seeds in his hand. And suddenly he saw it – the seeds in his hand had turned into seedlings – young
green sprouts. He now saw the meaning of foresight – fruits are nothing but seeds planted yesterday,
and seeds are nothing but fruits of tomorrow.
Varun immediately planted the seedlings in pots filled with soil and added some manure and water,
with the hope that good deeds of today will bring good fruits in the future.

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