Samuvel Sankari

INTRODUCTION : Henry Rene Guy De Maupassant shortly known as Guy De Maupassant was a 19th century French author. He is the master of short story form. His works depicts the human lives, destines and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms. Some of his notable works are ‘A Woman’s Life ‘, ‘Bel-Ami’ and ‘Simon’s Papa’. This short story ‘Simon’s Papa’ was published in 1879.   SIMON FACES HUMILIATION : Simon was a 7 to 8 year old boy and he was the only son of La Blanchotte. He never used to come out of his house, and his first day in school was a worst experience for him. The youngsters in school humiliate him and mock at him just because Simon don’t have a father. Simon’s classmates behave very rudely with him. SIMON DECIDES TO DROWN : Simon fights with his classmates for insulting him but he was stamped down by the monstrous crowd of boys around him. After certain extent Simon could no more withstand the insults and he started throwing stones at them. The boys ...

George Frederick Cameron was a Canadian poet, lawyer, and a journalist. He was born in 1854 and died in 1885. Cameron devoted much of his energy to writing on the subject of freedom, especially the struggle which was taking place in Cuba. His most famous work ‘Lyrics on Freedom, Love and Death’ was published posthumously. This poem ‘The Future’ is addressed to the poets of the future. The poet says that he belongs to the dead present and he is welcoming the future poets to come forward for the nations good. The author says that the actions of the present generations had made the land barren. The present generations are weak and they involve in war unnecessarily. The dispute between the colonizer and the colonized makes the whole world to suffer. Though it is said that the sun never set in the land of England, the weak ones are stamped down and truth and justice were confined deep inside them. They see themselves as superior to others. The colonizers aspire to attain peace but they g...