MA1 English - Dhruva Prathap, 7T, Gr No. 52872
Storyboard Description
January Night StoryBoardThat
" (A few points on the story 'January Night') "
By: Dhruva Prathap - Indian High Group of Schools, Dubai
Storyboard Text
- A dark January night. In the sky even the stars seemed to be shivering. At the edge of his field, underneath a shelter of cane leaves, Halku lay on a bamboo cot wrapped up in his old shawl, shivering. Underneath the cot his friend Jabra the dog was whimpering with his muzzle pressed into his belly. Neither one of them was able to sleep.
- 2. Jabra wagged his tail without getting up, protracted his whimpering into a long yawn was silent.Halku reached out his hand patted Jabra's cold back.
- 1. Jabra, cold? Didn't I tell you, in the house that you could lie in the paddy straw? Then why did you come out here? Now you will have to bear the cold too. You thought I was coming out here to eat puris and sweets. So you came running on ahead of me. Now you can moan all you want.
- 3. Jabra looked at him with eyes overflowing with love.
- 1. From tomorrow on stop coming with me or the cold will get you. We shall get through the night somehow. This is the reward you get for farming. While we do all the hard work somebody else gets the joy of it.
- 2. You have to put up with just one more cold night. Tomorrow I'll spread some straw. You won't feel the cold.
- 1. Halku lay down. Like some kind of witch the cold weather continued to torment him. When he could no longer bear it he gently picked Jabra up got him to fall asleep in his lap. The dog's body gave off some kind of stink but Halku, hugging him tight experienced a happiness he hadn't felt for months. Jabra probably thought he was in heaven, and in Halku's innocent heart there was no resentment for this smell.
- 1. He embraced him with the very same affection he would have felt for a brother. He was not crippled by poverty yet. Rather it was as though this singular friendship had opened all the doors to his heart and brilliantly illuminated every atom of it.
- 2. Bau Bau!
- 1. Suddenly Jabra picked up the noise of some animal. Springing up, he ran out of the shelter and began to bark. Halku whistled and called him several times. But Jabra went on barking.
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