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                                A TRIUMPH OF SERGERY

 

Author – James Herriot . A famous Vet , Author and Animal Lover .

Main character of the story – James Herriot as The narrator , Tricki , a pet dog or pet child , Mrs Pumphray ,financially rich and a bit of ignorant and over affectionate to her pet child , Tricki .

 

BASIC POINTS ------

Tricki was a small pet  dog and highly  loved by his mistress, Mrs. Pumphery.

He was habituated with random food and not enough exercise .

He became fat & Mrs. Pumphery thought him to be  suffered from malnutrition.

Mrs Pumphery was a rich woman and highly connected with her pet child .

Mrs Pumphray was supposed to be a lonely lady in own life .

She gave him some little extras between meals to build him up, malt, cod-liver oil and a bowl of Horlicks at night.

Once he became ill & she was worried & made a frantic call to Dr Herriot  ,  who was a vet.

The vet  already had given suggestions regarding Tricki’s balanced diet. But she never followed it.

He was a vet. He was shocked to see Tricki hugely fat and unfit.

He advised her to cut down on the sweet foods.

He expected the call to be  within a few days & it happened. He was called by Mrs. Pumphery as Tricki is not eating .

He told her that Tricki needed immediate hospitalization for keeping under observation at his surgery for a fortnight.

There the vet stopped any food and applied no medicine  but plenty of water.

Gradually he matched  with other dogs & started playing with them.

He had a lot of exercises & fun there in pack life.

He was completely recovered & transformed into a hard muscled dog.

James Herriot  treated the dog without medicine or surgery , rather applied a lifestyle based treatment .

She was happy & filled with gratitude.

She thanked Herriot & said it was a triumph of surgery.

 

 

BELLOW HERE , I ANSWERED TO SOME COMMON QUESTIONS TO SET AN IDEA . BETTER YOU ONLY READ THEM AND WRITE SOMETHING DIFFERENT FROM OWN PERSPECTIVE .


SOME SAMPLE QUESTION AND ANSWER ----

1)     Why is Mrs Pumphray so worried about her Tricki ?

Very technically a pet is family member and not less than a child to owner . So naturally Mrs Pumphray put all attentions on Tricki . So when Tricki did not respond to normal activites , Mrs Pumphray got worried .

Along with that , Mrs Pumphray was a bit over anxious about her pet child , Triki . So Mrs Pumphray got worried due to affection and over anxiety about her Tricki .

 

2)   What does she do to help him ? Is she enough wise to do such ?


     Due to a motherly heart and over anxiety for Tricki , Mrs Pumphray did a lot . She made a positive move to discuss with the vet in time .

     Apart from it , whatever she did for Tricki , could be highly risky for his life . Adding chocolate , snacks and specially wine , could really degrade Tricki’s physical condition .

      I think that , even having a big heart for own pet child , Mrs Pumphray was not enough wise to maintain Tricki in a proper way . what is desired by a dog .

3)     Was the narrator so rich like Mrs Pumphray / Tricki’s owner ?

 James Herriot was one of the famous scholar and highly talented vet of England at his time . But , I think that Mr Herriot / The Narrator was not so financially rich like the Mrs Pumphray / Tricki’s owner after reading the description .

 

4)     How did  he / the vet / the narrator treat the dog / Tricki ?

     The narrator , James Herriot , who was by profession was a vet , treated the pet child , “ Tricki “ in his own hospital through a non traditional way . Without any further medicine or surgery , he focused on the diet of Tricki and his proper socialization with dogs there . Throgh a strict and scheduled diet , he brought back Tricki’s physical fitness . And through free physical movement and involvement within the pack , he brought Tricki from boredom and depression .

     As a vet , the narrator here applied a lifestyle based treatment .


5)     Why Mrs Pamphrey called it , “ A TRIUMPH OF SURGERY “ ?

In medical science , the word , “Surgery” indicates to an urgent medical process to cure and prevent the complication. Sometimes , it is considered as the highest level of medical efficiency to save a life .

Though in the story , here is no indication of any surgery for the pet , conducted  by the vet , but still Mrs Pamphray , used the word ,” Surgery” as to her , the complications of her pet child so high . And the word “Triumph “ indicates to positive result of the treatment on the pet child .

 

6)     How do you like to describe “ The Narrator “ after reading the story both as a vet and a common person ?

After reading the story , “ A Triumph of surgery” , I think that , the narrator , James Herriot , who was a vet by profession , was cool tempered , good observer and highly experimental , as he applied a life style based treatment to Tricki , instead of traditional medicinal treatment .

The way , here the narrator , along with the treatment of dogs in his hospital , managed the over anxious lady like , Mrs Pumphray , it would focus on his excellent common sense and aware of human psychology , too.

 

7)     Do you think , that Tricki would be happy to go back to his luxurious life again ? What could be the possible future here ?

Generally , dogs are the happiest one to be with their owner . So may be for few days , Tricki would be missing the pack life , but hopefully he would be happy to with Mrs Pumphray . His happiness is connected with the owner , but not with the luxury .

Tricki adjusted himself in both rich and simple pack life . So the future is on Mrs Pumphray’s self realization and reaction to happenings .

 

8)     Write your own opinion about Mrs Pumphray after reading the story ---

 Mrs Pumphray , one of the leading character of the story , “ A triumph of surgery “ financially a rich lady and highly connected with her pet child, “ Tricki” . She was supposed to be lonely one in her personal life and possibly , it made her hyper active and anxious about her pet child,” Tricki “ .

Like so many mother , she unknowingly cared too much about her Tricki . Over affection and anxiety led her to many wrong doings like over feeding , adding chocolate and wine to Tricki’s diet .

These could be dangerous to Tricki’s life .

But ultimately , we get Tricki to be the her connections to life . Her doings may be wrong due to ignorance and hyper activity , but her love and affection for Tricki , was beyond any question .

 

9)    “ Over Pampering / one eyed thinking and so many categorical behavior based approaches of the parents to any child ( both human and animal ) can degrade the life of child "  --- What is your own view on this statement ? Define your view about standard parenting :-----

 

In most of the cases , over pampering to any sort of child by the parents , is caused by over affection and having much times . Though it should not be and still it happens very unknowingly by parents .

In most the cases , children may be misguided and later they may take undo advantages from situation .

The effect of such over pampering comes in negative way , when it is hard to manage .

 

Standard Parenting :------- In my view , “ Parenting “ is an art to rediscover the own for the parents and the child in ongoing changing situation . The main objective of standard parenting should be , trying to fit the child for upcoming days with positive vibes to his surroundings .

 

 

 

LIMITED  BOOKS AND SOME TRADITIONAL NOTES ARE NOT ENOUGH TO GET A BETTER KNOWELDGE ON ANY TOPIC . HERE ARE THE LINKS , RELATED TO THE AUTHOR AND STORY OF REASEARCH PAPERS FROM WORLD FAMOUS SCHOLARS AND JOURNALS , UNIVERSITIES .

ONE CAN EASILY ACCESS THEM AND SHOULD CREDIT THEM FOR GIVING SUCH A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO GO THROUGH THEIR ARTICLES AND PAPERS.

                                                          WITH MY HEARTIEST THANKS .

                                                                   PROLAY SANKAR DEY .

    

CLICK  ON -----DUST OF SNOW BY ROBERT FROST


EXTRA READING LINKS FOR " A TRIUMPH OF SURGERY " 

·         If Only They Could Talk (1970) ISBN 0-330-23783-7

·         It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (1972) ISBN 0-330-23782-9

·         Let Sleeping Vets Lie (1973) (including a few chapters that were not included in the omnibus editions All Creatures Great and Small and All Things Bright and Beautiful) ISBN 978-0-7181-1115-1

·         Vet in Harness (1974) ISBN 0-330-24663-1

·         Vets Might Fly (1976) ISBN 0-330-25221-6

·         Vet in a Spin (1977) ISBN 0-330-25532-0

·         The Lord God Made Them All (1981) ISBN 0-7181-2026-4

·         Every Living Thing (1992) ISBN 0-7181-3637-3

 

 

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