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 The Man Who Planted Trees

o   About forty years of age, the narrator went on a hike to a hilly region Where the alps penetrated into Provence, completely unknown to tourist. o   The narrator found himself completely desolated after walking for three days. o   Seeing some ruined house there, the narrator thought that there was a spring or well. o   The June day was beautiful with plenty of sun and whistling wing in the sky. o   He compared the whistling wind with the wild beast disturbed during eating. o   Here the shadow refers to the shepherd with thirty lambs. o   The shepherd so far planted hundred thousand acorns among which twenty thousand survived. o   Elzeard was a shepherd who had lost his wife and son came to this place of solitude with his forty lambs and a dog. o   The country was dying because of the lack of trees. He decided to remedy the solution as he had nothing more to do. o   The narrator thought that ‘men could be as effective as God’ as he could feel the divine effort of the Shepherd of giving birth to an elaborate jungle eleven kilometres all by himself with the help of hand and soul.