Question

Ruskin bond short stories summary the blue umbrella in summery show adverd

Answer 1

In a small village of Himachal Pradesh, where a little girl, Binya, trades her old leopard claw necklace for a pretty, frilly blue umbrella. In the village the shopkeeper (Ram Bharosa) keeps an old ruined shop and sells warm Coca Cola bottles due to no refrigerator and sells sweets to the school going kids as a credit and regains his money as an axe and an earing etc. .For him an umbrella is a precious thing to have. The people in the village become very fond of her umbrella. Soon the shopkeeper becomes envious of the umbrella and tries to buy it from Binya but she refuses.

As time passes by, Ram Bharosa's desire to get the umbrella also increases. The schools get closed due to the arrival of the monsoon and Ram Bharosa employs a boy from the next village named Rajaram to work at the shop. When Rajaram comes to know about his master's desire to own the umbrella, he offers to steal it for him. The shopkeeper unable to gain control on his craving, accepts it. Rajaram makes an attempt to steal the umbrella but fails and on being caught, he gives Ram Bharosa's name. Now everyone stopped coming to Ram Bharosa's shop. However, Binya realizes her mistake and that she shouldn't have shown off her umbrella because for now, due to it, Ram Bharosa was suffering. In the end, Binya gives the umbrella to Ram Bharosa, who returns her favor in future by gifting her a necklace with a bear's claw.

Answer 2

The blue umbrella by Ruskin bond, set in a Garhwal village of Himachal Pradesh. The story revolves around a little girl, Binya, belongs to a poor family and lives with her mother and brother. She is attracted with some Japanese's tourist and their Umbrella. Seeing her innocent fascination  with the Umbrella they decided to interact with Binya. She has a leopard-claw pendant around her neck and they decided to barter the pendant for the Umbrella.