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Cards (47)

  • The elder brother was 5 years older than the narrator
  • The elder brother took 2 years to complete the work of one year
  • The elder brother was a perfectionist and wanted his basics to be strong enough to support a skyscraper
  • The narrator was younger than the elder brother
  • The elder brother had a birth right to keep an eye on the narrator's doings
  • The elder brother was studious by nature and always reading some book
  • Things the elder brother did
    • Drew pictures of birds, dogs, cats on books and notebooks
    • Wrote a name or a word or a sentence ten twenty times in a row
    • Copied praise multiple times in calligraphic fonts
    • Invented words which have neither meaning nor consonance
  • The narrator lacked courage to ask the elder brother about his invented words
  • The narrator's heart was not at all for studying
  • The narrator always sought opportunities to leave the hostel and reach the playground
  • When the narrator reached within the wall, the rage on the face of the elder brother stole every breath away from him
  • Elder brother: '"If this is the way how you read English, then forget about learning even a single praise in this lifetime. Learning English is not a joke that some thievery can learn. No! You have to poke your eyes day-night and burn your blood only then you have command on this mode. And then it comes, yes, comes in saying. Even renowned scholars don't have perfection in writing and grammar! Speaking is a distant dream. And I have to say, what a snail you are that you are not taking a lesson from me. You see how much hardwork I do, if you don't, and then it is a mistake of your eyes, of your intelligence."'
  • After the elder brother's sarcasm, the narrator could not hold tears
  • The narrator decided to give his head and heart to studying and instantly a timetable was ready
  • The narrator was unable to implement the timetable from the very first day as the playground was more attractive to him
  • In the annual examinations, the elder brother failed while the narrator passed and stood first in his grade
  • The narrator felt bad for the elder brother and bit ashamed for having thoughts of teasing him
  • The narrator felt proud and confident as the elder brother could not boast him like he used to
  • Elder brother: '"Time will tell, you passed your exams and stood first this year, you thought it to be all; but my brother, pride pays the price, who are you ? you pretty well know what happened to Ravana. What message did you take from his character? Or you passed it like that? Passing your exams is not a big deal, big deal is to make your brain grow. Know what you understand and understand what you know."'
  • The elder brother warned the narrator about the dangers of pride and not to take his situation lightly
  • The elder brother expressed his frustration with the education system and the pointless nature of the exams
  • Time Restricted Goals are very good. It brings discipline in life, many people find it attractive and it is very beneficial for business
  • It is not efficient use of time rather a bloody misuse of it to stuff it with useless words
  • We want people keep talks straight, to the point and then mind their own business
  • They are just asking for four pages in brief, no, no it must have be hundred – two hundred pages in brief
  • Even a child can understand such a simple thing, but those examiners don't have a pinch on sense
  • Once you are in my grade sir, you'll have to do this donkeywork and then you'll come to know price of bread
  • No doubt I failed, but I am elder than you, I have more experience of this world
  • The image education my brother induced in his grade terrified me
  • All the confidence that I have had, died and yet again I was living like a thief
  • Although I didn't worked that hard but I stood first again. I was amazed
  • Big brother work fatally hard and tasted every word of course; left of 10 pm; right of 4 pm , 6 to 9 before going to school. He had become so numb, yet poor brother failed
  • If I have had failed, big brother didn't felt that bad, but who can change the done
  • Big brother was now one grade ahead me. A devious feeling emerged in my heart that if big brother failed again, I would then be in his grade
  • He scolds me in my interest. I don't like it of course, but I think it was due to his teachings I pass every exam and with good grades
  • Big brother softened a bit. Even though he got many opportunities to check me, but he worked with patience
  • I spend some irrational hypothesis that I study or not, I will pass anyway. My fortune is so strong; the little bit study that I used to do by the fear of big brother was too stopped
  • I found myself a new hobby, kitesurfing. And now all of my time was not submitted for it, but I never lost my regard for big brother and I never surfed kites in front of him
  • An army of kids were chasing her with madness; and they were welcoming her with bushy bamboo stick. No one had a sense of surroundings
  • Abruptly I smashed with big brother, he maybe was returning from bazaar