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Notes On Salvatore

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Published in: English
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Summary/Synopsis of the story SALVATORE by W. Somerset Maugham for ISC students. This synopsis is the minimum that a student should learn/remember in order to attempt long or short answer questions. All the necessary points have been covered coherently here. The highlighted words/phrases are the quotes from the story.

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  1. SALVATORE By Somerset Maugham STORYLINE/SUMMARY E The bioqraphical story by a very popular English author Somerset Maugham is a character sketch of a boy Salvatore • The story deals mainly with the themes of qnndneqs, IQve and ill effects of hearsay • There is no particular message, yet the goodness of Salvatore overwhelms the reader with great respect for his good nature. Salvatore the protagonist is a young boy of fifteen • The narrator is very much impressed by the goodness of Salvatore •Salvatore has a pleasant face, a laughing mouth and care-free. eyes •Father was a fisherman who also owned a little vineyard •Salvatore loved swimming in the sea and scramble up jagged rocks barefoot towards his house •Being the eldest son, Salvatore brothers •He was full of grace- Salvatore falls in love madly with a pretty girl and both are engaged •But they can't get married until Salvatore completes compulsory military service •He leaves the island and goes on duty as a sailor in navy •He is unhappy to live in a battleship with strangers •When his ship was in China, he falls ill •He was suffering from rheumatism,yet uncomprehending patience of a dog •He is declared unfit for the job and was sent home •Salvatore didn't mind his illness and felt happy to return to his family and fiancee. Salvatore was grandly welcomed by the family on his return but his fiancee didn't show up •His fiancee refused to marry him because she believed that he would never be strong enough to work like a man •This made Salvatore terribly sad and he wept on his mother's bosom e.. but be did not c.omplain,. and be never- said a hard word of-the girl .. •A few months later, on the advice of his mother, Salvatore marries a girl named Assunta who is elder to him •Assunta was in love with Salvatore and •Assunta had little money with which they bought a boat and a vineyard •Salvatore had to work very hard, catching fish at night and working in the vineyard during daytime Oln the due course of time, two boys were born to them whom Salvatore loved very much •Sometimes he would hold the boys in his big hands as if they were flowers. Often his rheumatism prevented him from doing anything at all and then he would lie about the beach •Seeing him lying on the beach, foreigners said that these Italian fishermen •Despite all that pain and suffering he would never complain or utter unpleasant word for anyone •so, this is how the narrator sketches the portrait of a wonderful man called Salvator who possesses nothing in this world but G.QQdnessÄu.st-g.QQdn.ess.
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