The Day The Dam Broken (Summary) For 2nd Year

The Day The Dam Broken (Summary) For 2nd Year

Author: James Groves Thurber is the prominent writ re of American. He is the humorists of modern times. Most of his writing shows an intense love for humanity and deep understanding of their character, behaviours and feelings. "The day the Dam Broke" is a good example of Thurber's sardonic but affectionate view of human being.

Summary: The author describes an interesting incident of his early childhood. In Colombo's town at Noon, on March 12, 1913, a rumour spread that Dam of Ohio river had been broken. It was a time when business was going on briskly. It was never known how and when the scare began, but within ten minutes every body became and seen running away from town. Giving the reasons of the move, he says, suddenly somebody began to run to the east. Perhaps he had to meet with his wife, for which he was frightfully late. Another man person, perphas a newsboy began to run in high spirit to the same side. Another man a portly gentleman of affairs, broke into a tarot and within short time every body started running to the east. The cry" Go East" has gone round, and without asking for any reason people were following it.
Black Streams of the people flowed eastward. Fireman, policeman and army officers in the uniform all joined the stream of the fleeing people. The mother of the writer flight against this calamity a very cal my. She turned out all the fire and took with her a dozen eggs and some laves of bread. She thought to take refuge in Memorial Hall, just two blocks away. But the mob of the people drew her and her family along and she could not reach the Hall.
The author also gave us the detail of the confused behaviour of an colonel, when he heard the cry of a child to go east he also began to run at full speed. The same panic was also found in the cinemas. The author says that his aunt was in the movie theatre, when she heard the sound of running feel and noise of shouting. An elderly man got out of his seat and went up the side at a dogtrot. This startled every body, a woman shouted "life" and then the panic started and some body cried. "The dam was broken" and every body began to run to the east. The author has also given as incident of Dr. Mallory, who heard the sound of the roaring water behind him and started running, but when he looked back to see the water he found that some funny boy was on roller skates. The panic lasted for only two hours when militiaman riding in motor lorries and bawling through megaphones That the dam had not broken and there was no reason for panic and for evacuating the city. Then the people returned to their hut sheepishly.

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