1. “I think he must have been a very strong and grown – up person, not a boy at all”. a) Who does ‘I’ refer to? b) Who was ‘strong and grown up’ according to the speaker?
Answers
Answer:
Swami and his friends
Explanation:
I think he must have been a very strong and grown – up person, not a boy at all”.
Ans:- The above given lines have been taken from "Swami and his friends"
The writer is R.K.Narayan.
In the above given lines,Swami's father was informing about a news that was in newspaper about their villege.The news stated that a tiger had attacked tge villege but a young boy fought the Tiger very bravely and won.But Swami refused to believe in the news.
a) Who does ‘I’ refer to?
Ans: "I" refers to Swami.
b) Who was ‘strong and grown up’ according to the speaker?
Ans:- Swami does not believe his father when he said that the boy defeated a Tiger.Swami argued that the news was fake.Only a strong grown up man can fight a tiger and not a young boy.
But Swami's father said that the strength is in one's mind and not in body.
The answers to above questions are:
a) Here, I refers to Swami.
- This question is taken from story 'Swami and his friends'.
b) The author of the story is R.K Narayan.
- In this story, Swami doesn't believes to his father when he says that a young boy defeated a tiger.
- He says only strong grown up man can defeat a tiger and not a young boy.
- But Swami's father says strength is in one's mind and not in the body.
- Hence, according to speaker the young boy is strong.