Summary of can't climb trees anymore
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I Can’t Climb Trees Anymore is an exciting short story by Ruskin Bond. The story underlines a very basic feature of our lives: searching the memories of old days by going back to the places of childhood and finding those people who once were part of our everyday life. It brings back the nostalgia that has been forgotten with the passage of time. Bond comes down to the city of Dehra from Mussoorie. He understands that many of his friends might have moved to other cities in the pursuit of career or otherwise. He moves to his grandmother’s bungalow. He had spent a lot of time with her, especially during summer vacation. After her death, the bungalow was sold to someone else. Bond doesn’t know who owns it now but he still remember the trees. Some of them were planted by him. He observes the familiar trees and other things while losing himself in the flood of memories. Soon a girl aged around twelve comes to the gate and asks him the reason for staring at his home. Bond says that once this house belonged to him. The girl, understanding his feelings, invites him inside. Bond comes in by climbing the wall in remembrance of his childhood days. They both sit on a bench beneath the mango tree. Bond says that he loves the Jackfruit tree and around forty years ago, he placed a cross on it which was brought by his grandfather from Germany who fought the World War II. The girl insists him to climb the tree to look for it but Bond knows that he is no more a kid of that era. So, he refuses to climb the tree. The girl brimming with energy of growing years climbs up the tree and brings down a rusted iron cross. It was the same cross Bond had placed there. The girl gives it to him but Bond refuses to take and says before leaving that he came here to find the lost youth, not the cross.