paragraph on journey through desert of sudha murthy
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The story “A Journey through Desert” begins with the reminiscent author telling a tale from her own past. She recounts how she met two identical twins in a workshop where she used to get her car serviced from. Ram and Gopal, the fatherless boys, work as errand boys in the workshop and they can’t afford the school education as they belong to a very poor family. In spite of all the difficulty they face, they keep smiling. The author starts visiting them on regular intervals and she tells them quite a few stories. With the passage of time she hires a driver and stops going to the workshop, thus forgetting the boys completely. After a decade or so, one day her driver tells her about a garage owner who was inquiring about her. Out of her curiosity, she pays a visit to the garage and to her pleasant surprise finds one of the twins as owner. Ram, the owner, tells her that one of her stories had changed his life. The story was about two boys who decided to cross a big desert to go to the next town where according to the elders the life was better and the future more promising. The elders advised them to pick up stones from the desert and carry them to that town. Some buyers would pay money for those rare stones. The boys carried food and water and did not feel tired in the beginning. The sun rose over their heads and the sand under their feet became hot. After walking for a few hours they thought that they had reached the edge of the desert and finished their food and water. After some time they realized they had covered only half the way. They picked up stones and their bags became very heavy. One of the boys lost his heart and decided to go back. The other continued to walk towards his destination. It was a difficult journey and he had his doubts. But faith and hope kept him going and ultimately he reached the town. He was disappointed to find that this was just another town and there was nothing special about it. He yearned to return but it was already dark and he decided to spend the night in the town. In the morning he opened his bag to throw away the stones. He couldn’t believe his eyes when he found that the stones had turned into diamonds. The brothers had enjoyed the story but Ram had got his message too. He says to the narrator: Do you remember Madam, you also told us the meaning of the story? A student’s life is like the desert, examinations are the hot sun, difficulties are like the warm sand and study is like hunger and thirst. As a student you have to travel all alone collecting knowledge and skill the way the boy in the story collected stones. The more you collect the better is the life you lead later.
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these story was about two boys that boys has decided to cross a big desert the life was better and the future was more promising the elders of village told them to pick up the stone buyers would pay money fot these rare stones.