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Write summary of the chapter "A Fellow - Traveller" by AG Gardiner.

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Gardiner was travelling in a passenger train from London to a Midland Town. The passengers got down in ones and twos at the wayside stations, and in the end he was left alone in the compartment.

The sense of being alone in the compartment opened up a basketful of good things for Gardiner. Instead of feeling loneliness, he thought he could do anything he liked, he. could stand upwards on his head and nobody would see him. He could sing, dance, open or shut the windows but nobody would object it. But alas! a mosquito was disturbing him.

The mosquito fluttered, took a round in the compartment and sat on the nose of the writer. He flicked it off but it again sat on his nose after taking another round of the compartment. Then, it sat on the back of his hand and then on the newspaper he was reading. He warned the mosquito twice but in vain. Now, Gardiner decided to kill it. He adopted many tactics to get hold and kill the mosquito, but every time it escaped. At last Gardiner began to enter into the spirit of a fellow mosquito. It was no more a mere insect for him. He realised that he and the mosquito were fellow mortals in this world. But by chance they had become fellow-travellers that night.

Gardiner concludes that we take birth but we do not know from where we have come. This remains a mystery. Our life in this world is very short yet it is full of wonders. We have to struggle hard to live for this short period. Then, we go away from this world our own way.

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Chapter - A Fellow Traveller

Writer - A.G. Gardiner

• Chapter Summary ::

A Fellow Traveller

The chapter A Fellow Traveller is written by A.G. Gardiner. In this chapter the writer exquisitely explains the plot which depicts how people tackle loneliness and how things seem different than what they are in real.

The chapter begins with Gardiner, who was travelling in a train from London to Midland Town. He was sitting in a compartment which was slowly getting emptied as passengers were slowly getting down. Finally Gardiner found himself empty in the compartment of train in which he was sitting. He thought himself as lucky on seeing that. But slowly his thinking got changed. At first he thought that compartment was all his own. He even thought that no one can see him doing mischiefs in compartment and he can do anything there. He thought of laying there, walking from one part of compartment to another. Even he thought of remaining upside down that is standing on head reversely. The main problem to his fun was a mosquito. That mosquito didn't let him live happy in that compartment. It used to disturb him in whatever he done. Firstly that mosquito came near the writer and sat over his hand. Then when the writer moved him away, it travelled the whole compartment and came back and sat on the newspaper which he was reading. When again the writer moved him away, that mosquito came and sat on his nose. Now it was irritating the writer. The narrator wanted to kill the mosquito. Everytime he tried to kill, the mosquito escaped away. Whil doing all these, he realised that he wasn't alone. He tried to get into the spirit of another mosquito. He slowly understood that his journey has changed to something else. The initial mosquitoe seemed him as his fellowmate in his journey.

• About the Writer :

A.G. Gardiner is an enthusiastic and well known English writer known for his contribution in English Literature. His works mostly signify his technique to transform the normal and materialistic things into a living thing.

• Basic Idea of Chapter :

This chapter shows that though humans come into world as different than other animals but still intially all are same. Every different organism have their different world. They intermingle with each to make their life more prosperous and happy.