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Writing

The narrator in ‘The Ghost of the Mountains’ is not a part of the story. We are told about the events
in the story by a third person who is separate from the setting. This is an example of a third-person
account.
Some stories are narrated directly by a character in the story who is a witness to the events
happening in it. She/He tells us the story in the fi rst person, using the pronoun ‘I’, and this is called
a fi rst-person account. The reader’s opinion about other characters is often infl uenced by the
narrator’s relationship with them. This style of narration is often used by authors to give a limited
view of the events in the story and create a sense of mystery and suspense.

Using the events of the story, write a fi rst-person account as:

1. the snow leopard who watches the frantic and fearful activities of the
human beings.
OR
2. Jigmet, who watches Rigzin rescue the calf as well as the snow leopard.

Activity

In the poem ‘Woodman, Spare That Tree!’, we see the poet vow to protect the old oak tree at any cost.
In ‘The Ghost of the Mountains’, we see a village taking responsibility for the well-being of wildlife.
Something similar was practised by Indian villagers in the Himalayas in the 1970s, in the form of the
Chipko movement. The word chipko is a call to embrace or cling to something. Can you guess what
the villagers embraced, and why?

Find out more about the Chipko movement from books and the Internet. Have a class
discussion on the movement and its eff ect.

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