Short Story United We Stand

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‘United we stand!’
‘United we stand!’, these words reminds me the story of the farmer and his quarrelling sons which I have probably read when I was only eight years old. The story was about a farmer who had five sons, who always quarreled and had no unity. The farmer so decided to teach them a lesson and called everyone and handed them a bundle of five sticks, asking them to try to break them. None could win the challenge and when the sticks were separated and each stick was handed to each son, they were easily able to break the individual sticks.
The above story needs no further explanation of what it was trying to teach. The fact that pupils are taught to unite from a very early age shows the importance of unity. Examples for the role of …show more content…

The story was about a farmer who had five sons, who always quarreled and had no unity. The farmer soon decided to teach them a lesson. He called on all five of them and handed them a bundle of five sticks, asking them each to try to break them. None could succeed. But when the sticks were separated and each stick handed to each son, they were easily able to break the individual sticks. This story needs no further explanation of what it was trying to teach.
In my case, I had learned of this story at my school. The fact that pupils are taught to unite from a very early age shows the importance of unity. Examples for the role of unity are countless. If we look around us, it becomes quite obvious that without unity we cannot stand, instead we can only fall as the great quote has said – “United we stand, divided we fall”.
Starting from a small family to a football or a cricket team to a city or to a country or even the world, without unity nothing can go right. If there is no unity in a family, there will be nothing but unhappiness. If the players in a team do not coordinate, it will prove impossible for the team to win. If there is no unity between the citizens in a country, the country is bound to divide and if there is no understanding between countries, nothing can stop wars to take

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