“Even if I die, I will not part from your embrace”
The article begins with the memory of a poem about the homeland that the author heard in a theatre in childhood, in the year the war began. He says that the feeling of homeland grows together with the person, and that the homeland includes not only the home and school but the whole society’s yesterday, today and tomorrow. According to the author the homeland lives before me and after me, while I cannot live without it; therefore it must not be squandered but increased and left to future generations. Loving the homeland is like loving one’s mother: it shows not in shouting but daily in work and conduct, and boasting and “selling words” devalue it. As examples he recalls the ancient shepherd Shiroq (who led the enemy into the desert and got them lost, knew he himself would not return, and did not think about fame) and the Jadids who spent their own funds trying to enlighten the people. An ordinary person too can show courage every day: planting trees around the yard and beautifying the land, as he says, is also service to the homeland.
Write the article’s main ideas as a five-sentence plan and find one everyday example of your own for each (for example, planting a tree).