The Boy who Broke the Bank — Chapter Summary
ICSE · Class 10 · English Literature-Treasure Chest ( Poems and Short Stories)
Summary of The Boy who Broke the Bank for ICSE Class 10 English Literature-Treasure Chest. The story is a humorous satire about how a small, innocent.
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The story is a humorous satire about how a small, innocent complaint grows into a full-scale bank panic. Nathu, a sweeper-boy at Seth Govind Ram's bank in Pipalnagar, is upset because his salary has not been paid by the 20th of the month. His words are overheard, repeated carelessly, and distorted a
Key Concepts
The story starts with Nathu's fair
The story starts with Nathu's fair complaint about his unpaid salary. He is not spreading a false story; he is simply grumbling about a real problem.
The complaint moves from Nathu
The complaint moves from Nathu to Sitaram, then to Mrs. Srivastava, Mrs. Bhushan, Mr. Bhushan, Kamal Kishore, Deep Chand, the injured customer, and fi
Each person adds fear
Each person adds fear, assumption, or exaggeration. The message changes from unpaid salary to bankruptcy and then to complete collapse.
Once the injured customer cries out
Once the injured customer cries out that 'The bird has flown!', people rush to protect their money. Fear spreads faster than facts.
The person who started the whole
The person who started the whole incident does not know it. Nathu keeps sweeping the bank without realising that his complaint caused the panic.
Learning Objectives
- To understand how a rumour grows when passed from person to person
- To identify the role of each character in the rumour chain
- To explain the theme of the destructive power of rumours
- To notice the story's humour, irony, and satire
- To recall how fear spreads in a small town and creates mass panic
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