Class 9 chapter a legend of the northland of central idea
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The central idea of the poem is greed and selfishness can result in serious complications. Greed is considered to be a cardinal sin. The poem Legend of the Northland beautifully highlights this truth. People who are greedy not only worsen other’s problems and sufferings, but also attract untold misery for themselves.
In the poem The Legend of Northland, the old woman behaved very greedily and selfishly to St. Peter who was hungry and faint. She did not have the heart to give even a small cake to the hungry saint. Her selfishness infuriated the divine saint and he converted her to a woodpecker.
If the old woman had shown kindness and given a cake to St. Peter, he surely would have blessed her and multiplied her joys.
It was a story of old greedy man woman in to their home Saint Peter come for asking her a piece of a cake firstly she make a thick cake but she think that it is too thick then she made some less thick but then also she think that it is much thick then she make a paper like cake that also she doesn't want to give her She kept all the cakes on the roof of the almirah then the Saint Peter got angry in hunger and cursed her that you are not suitable for living in a human body when you will roam here and there in search of food then u will realise what is hunger then she became a Woodpecker when you will go for searching food then you will know the importance of food then through chimney she flew out and always roaming in search of food
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