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The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
How did uncle Khosrove react when John Byro told him that his horse had been stolen?
John Byro told uncle Khosrove that someone had stolen his white horse. He couldn’t find it anywhere. Uncle Khosrove became very irritated. He shouted as usual: “It is no harm. What is the loss of a horse?” He shouldn’t pay any attention to it.
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“One day back there in the good old days when I was nine and the world was full of every imaginable kind of magnificence, and life was still a delightful and mysterious dream ...” The story begins in a mood of nostalgia. Can you narrate some incident from your childhood that might make an interesting story?
The story revolves around the characters who belong to a tribe in Armenia. Mourad and Aram are members of the Garoghlanian family. Now locate Armenia and Assyria on the atlas and prepare a write-up on the Garoghlanian tribes. You may write about people, their names, traits, geographical and economic features as suggested in the story.
What is nostalgia? Describe the nostalgic beginning of the story.
Who tapped on the windows? What did Aram see when he looked out of the window?
Describe the Garoghlanian family. Why and what were the members of the family proud of?
Why couldn’t the narrator believe that his cousin Mourad couldn’t have bought the horse?
Why did Aram refuse to believe that his cousin Mourad could even steal a horse?
Why did Aram conclude that Mourad had stolen the horse?
Why did the narrator believe that stealing a horse for a ride was not the same thing as stealing?
Who had the crazy streak in the family and who was the natural descend-ant of that streak in the tribe?
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