Don't judge a book by its cover short story examples
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Do Not Judge A Book By Its Cover. :
A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston and walk timidly without an appointment into the Harvard university President's outer office.
The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country hicks had no business at Harvard and probably didn't even deserve to be in Cambridge.
"We want to see the president,' the man said softly.
'Hell be busy all day,' the secretary snapped.
"Well wait,' the lady replied.
For hours the secretary ignored them, hoping that the couple would finally become discouraged and go away. They didn't and the secretary grew frustrated and finally decided to disturb the president, even though it was a chore she always regretted.
"Maybe if you see them for a few minutes, they will leave," she said to him.
He sighed in exasperation and nodded. Someone of his importance obviously didn't have the time to spend with them, but he detested gingham dresses and homespun suits cluttering up his outer office.
The president, stern faced and with dignity, strutted toward the couple.
The lady told him, "We had a son who attended Harvard for one year. He loved Harvard. He was happy here. But about a year ago, he was accidentally killed. My husband and I would like to erect a memorial to him, somewhere on campus."
The president wasn't touched... He was shocked.
"Madam," he said, gruffly, "we can't put up a statue for every person who attended Harvard and died. If we did, this place would look like a cemetery."
"Oh, no," the lady explained quickly, "we don't want to erect a statue. We thought we would like to give a building to Harvard."
The president rolled his eyes. He glanced at the gingham dress and homespun threadbare suit and exclaimed, "A building! Do you have any earthly idea how much a building costs? We have over seven and a half million dollars in the physical buildings here at Harvard."
For a moment the lady was silent.
Hie president was pleased. Maybe he could get rid of them now.
The lady turned to her husband and said quietly, "Is that all it costs to start a university? why don't we just star our own?"
Her husband nodded.
The president's face wilted in confusion and bewilderment Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stanford got up and walked away, traveling to Palo Alto, California where they established the University that bears their name, Stanford university, a memorial to a son that Harvard no longer cared about.
moral: You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do nothing
once there lived a young man called harry who was an owner of a milkshop.Once a man came to him and asked him if he could give him a lone.The man was wearing dirty torn clothes and appeared to be poor.Harry turned angry and shouted on the man and told him to go away .He thought that he appears to poor how can he turn his money back . the man left.actually the man was the king of that place.He was just there to test his people.Later the king called harry to his court and asked him about his behaviour towards that man(who was actually him).harry was astonished and stood speechless.Harry was punished for his behaviour.It gives us an idea no to judge a book by its cover