The Story of novel “Cherry Tree” is revolves around a boy named Rakesh who lives in his grandfather home which is located in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand. The story begins when he planted a cherry seed in his garden and take care of it every single day.
The Cherry Tree By Ruskin Bond
Summary of Cherry Tree By Ruskin Bond
“The Cherry Tree” is a novel written by the famous Anglo-Indian writer Ruskin Bond and it was originally published in 1980. The story of the novel is about a boy named Rakesh who was coming back from his school eating Kashmiri cherries. He lives with his grandfather in a town called Mussoorie located in Uttarakhand. He does not live with his father and mother who are fifty miles away from his grandfather’s house.
A village where there is no school or college to study, so his parents send Rakesh to his grandfather’s house to study. His grandfather is a retired forest dweller who has a hut given by the government. When he was coming back from school, he bought some Kashmiri cherries and on the way home he ate all except three cherries which he gave to his grandfather to eat.
His grandfather ate only one cherry and gave two back to Rakesh and he ate all the cherries happily. Rakesh took a seed from the cherry he ate and showed it to his grandfather, and he told him not to waste the cherry seed and use it for some good work. After this Rakesh’s grandfather told him that you should use this seed to plant a cherry tree. He listened to his grandfather’s advice and planted the cherry tree in his balcony garden. Also, Rakesh went to play football with his friends and forgot about the seed he had planted.
One day when he was playing in the balcony of his garden, he saw a small cherry plant growing. He ran to his grandfather’s room and told him about a cherry plant which he had advised him to plant a year ago. His grandfather advised him that if he wanted to have a big cherry tree then he should water the cherry plant daily. Rakesh used to plant the cherry plant daily but one day it happened that a goat came to his garden and ate all the leaves of his cherry plant.
Rakesh was very sad about his cherry tree, but his grandfather told him not to worry as it was just a leaf that the goat ate, not the tree and soon the plant would grow a new leaf again. As the leaf started growing again, one day, a gardener lady came to his garden to cut the weeds and accidentally cut the cherry tree into two pieces. Rakesh’s grandfather comes and starts yelling at the gardener because he cut his grandson’s tree into two pieces.
This time Rakesh and his grandfather had no hope for their tree but as soon as summer came, a miracle happened and the cherry tree started blooming once again. Rakesh had gone to his parents’ house for summer vacations but when he came back to his grandmother’s house, he saw that the cherry blossomed and grew as tall as Rakesh’s height. He saw a worm on the leaf of his tree, but he did not remove it as it was the first time it came to his tree, and he went back to his room. Slowly as winter came, more worms started coming to his tree and his tree also grew slowly and became a real cherry tree day by day. In one of the months between December and January when snowfall started, his tree bent down day by day.
When the grandfather saw the tree, he called Rakesh as it was an amazing moment as pink flowers were growing in the cherry which looked very beautiful. In the next summer, cherry fruits come on the tree which look completely red and delicious. Rakesh tasted some cherries from his tree, but they had no taste, and his grandfather told him that maybe next year the fruits would be sweet and delicious. One day when Rakesh was looking for his grandfather, he saw them sitting in the shade of a cherry tree which gives relief from the heat in summer. He asks his grandfather why we love only this tree even though there are thousands of trees in the forest and his grandfather replies that we love the tree because we have planted it with our own hands. The story of the novel ends with Rakesh and his grandfather sitting in the shade of their tree and enjoying its cool breeze.
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