Page 28 - Success Plus English Language and Literature Class 10

Writing

Solved Exercises 8 marks each

1. You have been given the opening of a story. Complete it in an interesting way in 200–250
words. Add a setting, characters, dialogue or action as you see fit. Give the story a suitable title.

The rain was not showing any signs of letting up, and Prateek was getting impatient. Of all the
days he had to pick this one to forget bringing his umbrella! ...

A Monsoon Evening

The rain was not showing any signs fellow, answered honestly. “Your wife
of letting up, and Prateek was getting bought the grocery in the afternoon itself.
impatient. Of all the days he had to pick You must have set about for something
this one to forget bringing his umbrella! else. Here, take this umbrella and head
He couldn’t remember why he had home. Your wife will remind you what
left his hut. He was known in the village you were up to. Poor you and your rattled
for having a memory problem. Prateek mind, Prateek. What if it is an emergency?”
would always forget what he was doing. Alarmed by the grocer’s thoughts,
As a remedy, he would keep chanting his Prateek hurried homewards. “Wifey,
purpose till he did it. wifey,” he chanted as he navigated the
Today, however, the roar of the clouds deluged trails across the fields. Upon
had drowned Prateek’s chants and he had reaching home, he stopped his chants and
forgotten his purpose. Stranded at the broke down into tears before his wife.
crossroad in the rain, he took a look at “Me and my cursed mind. Why had
himself – he had a drenched lungi around I gone out? I am completely drenched. Is
his waist and was bare-chested. It was there an emergency?”
evening, so he must have been about to Prateek’s wife started laughing. “Put
go to the market, he guessed. “Market, that umbrella down. You had just gone to
market,” Prateek started chanting at the wash down your heat rashes in the rain,”
top of his voice and headed there. she chortled.
“Ho, the grocer! I guess I’m here to buy
grocery.” The grocer, being a good-natured

2. Given below is the structure of a story. Use the hints given below and write a complete story in
200–250 words. Give your story a suitable title.
• characters: two farmers
• setting: a village somewhere
• problem/conflict: the nearby grain silo is broken and the farmers have to store their
own grain this season
• events: the farmers decide to store their own grain, build wooden tanks lined with cloth
and plastic, but the weather is grim, the rains might ruin the crop lying around, pests
might contaminate the rest, their families are helping but things are not looking good,
there is a storm warning, they are desperate and perplexed

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