The Ungrateful Man: A Conversation between Trees Swathi Shenoy

Kakatiya University Degree English Sem 4

Unit- 3.The Ungrateful Man: A Conversation between Trees

Swathi Shenoy

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Q. 1.Effective acts of conservation support our natural environment'. Evaluate your answer with regard to the story The Ungrateful Man: A conversation between Trees.

 Q. 2.what did the trees start talking among themselves in the story The Ungrateful Man: A conversation between Trees?

Q. 3.How are humans portrayed in this story? Support your answer with examples from the text. 

About the author

Swathi Shenoy is a writer, poet,travel enthusiast, and nature lover. Her popular stories are 'Meet the Story Tellers: Falak Randerian', "Loneliness: A Chapter from the Ramayana". "A Mother's Heart" and "A Woman's Cry" are her well-known poems. 

About the text:. 

This short story is a conversation among trees. The writer presents the indifferent attitude of humans towards trees. The short conversation brings out the human foolish act of deforestation, causing ecological imbalance and destruction in the name of development. The writer personified the trees. The trees talk like humans and express their anguish towards the selfish man.

 The trees in the forest talked among themselves about the construction of a huge building, i.e., a mall. Human greed and ingratitude made all the trees gloomy, and they were worried about noise pollution and deforestation, resulting in the conversion of most of the forest into barren land.

A tree lamented that the human race was ungrateful, though they served all their lives to them. It wondered when people would realise their folly. The tallest tree, which was quiet for a long time, started talking. It worried about its friends, birds, and animals, which had made their home on trees. 

A man came to the tallest tree, examined and scribbled something on its trunk, and then did the same for the next tree. Then another man came with an axe and started chopping. The shorter tree cried silently for the loss of its friend. The next step would be her turn. The man would know the value of trees in the future. The ecological imbalance will lead to his own destruction. The tree waiting for his turn says that a man would not be able to lead a happy life without trees. The writer criticizes the man's over- exploitation and destruction of nature in the name of economic development.

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