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Answer the following questions in about 80-100 words:

Life in metropolitan cities has left no time with members of the family to spend with each other. As a concerned citizen, write a letter to the editor of a national daily voicing your concern over the increasing number of old age homes in metropolitan cities (The Dear Departed highlighting the values required in the younger generation to care for the elderly.

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The Frog did not recognise the nightingale's talents. With reference to the poem. 'The Frog and I the Nightingale,' discuss why it is important to I have respect for other individuals and their talent.

 

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XYZ

Town hall Park

Washington D.C.

16 March, 20XX

The Editor

The Hindustan Times

Washington D.C.

Sub. : Increasing number of old age homes in metropolitan cities.

Sir,

Through the esteemed columns of your newspaper, I would like to draw your kind attention towards the increasing number of old age homes in the metropolitan cities. It is very true that old people are not welcomed at their own homes. They do not get proper care and love from their children and grandchildren. They are considered as a burden on them. The children do not realise that they are the ones who had brought them up. They deserve to be respected and loved. With reference to the story, 'The Dear Departed, the father, Mr. Abel was not loved by any of his daughters. More than him, they were interested in his property and wealth. When he was unconscious for a period of time, they thought him to be dead. When they assumed him to be dead, they were discussing the obituary matter and the division of his belongings. All this was really disheartening. Rather than thinking about the funeral of their father they were thinking about his property. Now-a-days, it is the story of every house because people are too busy to take care of their own parents. This scenario needs to be changed. Old people should be at their own homes and not in old age homes. People do not have time for their parents and when they think they are becoming burdensome on them, they drop them at the old age homes.

I think the younger generation can stop this practice. They should have the moral values to take care of their grandparents, to love them, to make them feel special. They should spend time with them, it will make them feel good. I shall conclude my letter here and I hope that it would be published in your prestigious newspaper.

Yours sincerely

XYZ.

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It is important to respect other's talent because, we cannot always be the best at everything. Sometimes other people are good at something while we are not, it does not always mean we have to compete with them all the time to be perfect. It helps to create a healthy environment and relationship.

In the poem, the frog did not respect the Nightingale's ability to sing and his jealousy was the reason for the Nightingale's death. If he could have appreciated her talent and enjoyed her music, may be even learnt from her, he could have been better at it; but he wanted to compete with her.

Towards the end of the poem, the nightingle died and the frog remained the unrivalled king, who wanted to change the world in accordance to his own will.