A banyan tree autobiography vs biography

Introduction

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Ruskin Bond is the author of The Banyan Tree. This chapter is modeled after the well-known traditional Indian play about the conflict between the cobra and the mongoose.

The story is divided into two parts.

In the first section, the narrator gives a description of the banyan tree in his garden.

The second section of the chapter is about the amazing sight the boy saw under the Banyan tree.

Summary with Explanation

Part 1

The author was visiting his grandparents' home and claimed the banyan tree was his.

A banyan tree autobiography vs biography

He made this claim because his grandpa was 65 years old and could not climb the tree. The author felt happy when he saw the tree's branches, which used to hang in bunches from the tree to the ground. There were loops in these roots in which the squirrels, snails, and butterflies lived.

The tree was far older than both the home and Grandpa. It was as old as Dehradun itself.

First, the author intended to make the little squ