English Confluence By CL Gautam

Ch-4.   The Rattrap       Selma Lagerl     INTRODUCTION               The Rattrap is a wonderful story, told like a fairytale. It gives voice to the writer's conviction that no man is a criminal by birth; secondly, every sinner has a trace of goodness in him which can be awakened through love and understanding. Loving care can change a thief into a decent fellow. This is the theme of the story. The man in rags was a poor vagabond. He used to beg as well as steal. But he had a thinking brain and skill to make rattraps. He was a peddler. The wire made rattrap gave him an idea that the whole world was like a trap. It offered the baits of riches to innocent people to entrap them first and then get them punished by law.   DETAILED SUMMARY Once upon a time there was a man who went around selling rattraps of wire. He used to make traps from the material he got by begging in stores and at the big farms. Since his bu...