The Banyan Tree is a short story written by Indian author, Ruskin Bond. The central theme of story is connectedness with nature.
Summary of The Banyan Tree Class 6 Summary

“Summary of Adventures in a Banyan Tree”
In the beginning of story poet asks, have you ever seen a fight of Mongoose and Snake ?
Mongoose are very agile so that’s why they doesn’t let snake bite them. But if snake bite them, they can die. When Mongoose fight with snake, they first make them tired and then killed them.
The story begins with the childhood of writer who is at his grandfather’s home. There is an old Banyan tree where writer is sitting, he says even though this house and land is of my grandfather but the Banyan tree is mine.
The Banyan tree is mine because my grandfather is 65 years old now and he cannot climb it. The branches of tree are hanging to the ground, and it makes winding path from where writer loves to take round. There are squirrels, snake and butterfly around the tree. The writer says banyan tree is so old that it look like it is older than my grandfather, his house and Dehradun.
There comes a grey color squirrel who is sniffing in air like he is showing anger for invading his privacy. But later on when he saw that I don’t have any catapult and gun, he become friendly to me. As writer start giving biscuits and cake to squirrel, she become courageous and starts taking food from writer’s hand.
After some time, squirrel start checking writer’s pocket to find something to eat, Squirrel is very young so his friends and relatives must be thinking how foolish she is that she is trusting human being.
As spring season comes, red figs grows on tree which attracts birds and parrots towards it. In spring season, the banyan tree become the noisiest place of garden. In middle of tree, writer made a place where he used to spend his afternoon time, he has put his books and cushion to do reading there.
The writer has put books like Treasure Island, Huckleberry finn and The story of Dr Dolittle in on tree. These books have made my Banyan tree a library. When I used to read those books on tree, it gave me a feeling of library on tree.
When I doesn’t feel like reading, I used to look down from tree. One day, when writer look down from tree in afternoon time, he saw a fight between Cobra snake and Mongoose. As it was noon time, gardener was inside home and I was getting bore on tree.
Therefore, I decide to swim with Ramu and Buffalo in pond. Then suddenly I saw cobra and mongoose fighting, it was looking like that Cobra is realizing that he is fighting with agile and strong Mongoose.
Cobra is also looking skillful and experienced, he is moving fast and his big teeth has dangerous venom. Cobra keep hissing and goes in defensive mode, he raise himself 6 feet high. Mongoose and Cobra doesn’t know that writer is watching them from tree. There comes two crows who become spectator like writer.
The Cobra snake raise himself high, goes in defense mode and tries to mesmerize. He keep looking in Mongoose’s in eye to protect himself from his move. Mongoose pretend to go in right side direction to trick Cobra Snake and as Cobra attack him from right side, Mongoose change his direction quickly and attack cobra from behind.
At the same time, Crow and Myna attack on Cobra snake but they collides in air and ends up sitting on Cactus. Crow and Myna again tries to attack on Cobra snake but they again collides and sit on cactus.
In the third round of fight, Crow and Myna still want to attack on snake but as they go to attack on snake, they both missed. The Myna go back to his place on Cactus but Crow tries to walk around Cobra snake, and this time Cobra attacks on crow with his poisonous teeth.
The crow tries to fly but suddenly fall on ground and died from snake poison. The fight between Mongoose and Snake starts again, snake is weaker now and Mongoose goes quickly towards Snake and grab his neck. At the end of story, Mongoose killed Cobra snake and drag his body to bushes. Myna comes down on land and congratulate Mongoose for his victory against Cobra snake.