ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Origin Stories, also known as Pourquoi Stories, are tales that explain how something came into being or explain why something is the way it is.

Detailed explanation-2: -How the Cheetah Got Its Spots is a story about two cheetah cub brothers that go off on an adventure. There is some conflict and discipline that creates a small life lesson for the readers to take to heart. The storyline itself is easy to read and comprehend, and the illustrations are very bright and grasping.

Detailed explanation-3: -This meaningful phrase dates as far back as the Old Testament. It was used in Jeremiah 13:23, where the Hebrew prophet Jeremiah had originally said: “Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard its spots?”. “A leopard never changes its spots” derives directly from that phrase and is still used today.

Detailed explanation-4: -In his ‘Just So’ stories, Rudyard Kipling explains that the leopard owes its distinctive rosette-like markings to a move to a ‘great forest, ‘sclusively full of trees and bushes and stripy, speckly, patchy-blatchy shadows’.