Finally he understood that he had been walking around the same portion of the jungle. (He could not find the correct path to cross the jungle) But the way was twisting in all directions. He tried to walk in only one particular direction. Because the forest was big and he got confused. But later during the day he started facing problems. Initially he did not have any difficulty in walking in the jungle. So he turned away from road and started walking through the jungle. He did not have the courage to continue his walk along the road. He was very happy with his smartness to walk away with money in his pocket. (He has stolen the money of the crofter.) Then he carefully put back the pouch at its place and went away. He took out the money, put money into his own pocket. Each of them went on their way.Īfter about half an hour, the rattrap seller reached the cottage again. The rattrap maker thanked his host and said good bye to him. The crofter locked the cottage and kept key with him. So the rattrap maker also got up early.īoth the men came out of cottage together. The other man probably did not want to sleep longer than his host. The crofter wanted to milk his cow early. Next day both men got up early in the morning. The old man showed these currency notes to his guest. He took out three ten Kronor notes from the pouch and showed to the rattrap maker. This was hanging on a nail on the window frame. The old man thought that guest did not believe him, Because of this reason, the owner of the house went to the window. Last month he had received thirty Kronor from the creamery. Now the crofter was not able to do hard work. He used to live and do farming on that land. He had taken a piece of land on rent at Ramsjo Ironworks. Rattrap maker was informed that in past the cottage owner was a rich person. This was similar to giving shelter and lot of food to his guest. The old man (owner of cottage) voluntarily told him many of his secrets. Then, till bed time, they played a game ‘mjolis’ with playing cards. With this rattrap maker and the cottage owner each could smoke their pipes. Then he cut a big piece of tobacco from a roll. Immediately the cottage owner started cooking porridge. He was happy to receive rattrap maker so that he could talk to him to remove his loneliness. He did not have his wife or children at the cottage. But owner of this cottage was happy to receive him. Normally rattrap maker used to meet bad tempered persons. He knocked at the door and requested permission to stay there. One day it became dark in the evening and he was still walking with difficulty along the road. (Meaning they had not fully decided to get tempted but were about get into the trap) He also used to think of people who were still moving around the temptations. He used to think of people known to him, who were caught in the dangerous trap of the world. This became his favourite thought to pass his time during his dull and boring walks.
(Meaning that he had lot of difficulties in his life) Therefore this thought gave him special happiness to think bad about the world. Then he is not able to come out of ever increasing desire.Ĭertainly the world was not kind to him. As soon as a person tries to get any of the pleasure of the world, he gets trapped to obtain more such pleasures. This is similar to a rattrap having cheese and pork to tempt rats. The world gives us many pleasures like money, happiness, home, food, clothes etc. The world exists to tempt people into doing something. Meaning that all the people are trapped in this world. He thought that the whole world was a big rattrap. This new thought appeared very pleasant to him.Īs usual, he was thinking about his rattraps. (Meaning that his thoughts were not affected by anyone. He used to walk along the road and live on side of road. Life of the rattrap maker was sad and dull. His cheeks were sunk, he appeared hungry or malnutritioned. So he had to beg and do minor thefts to make his living. Though he got material free, still his business of selling rattrap did not give him enough money. He used to beg for the material in stores or at big farms. He made these during strange time of the day. Once upon a time a man used to make small rattraps. Lives on side of road, Walks along the road English CBSE Class 12 NCERT Flamingo Chapter 4 The Rattrap Line by Line Explanation and Meaning of Difficult Words
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