1. What was Anne's relationship with her grandmother?
2. Why did Wanda gift all her paintings of dresses to the girls? What does it show about
her?
3. How does the tiger feel lock in the concrete cell of the zoo? Why does he ignore the
visitors?
4. Nelson Mandela felt that both the oppressor and the oppressed need to be liberated. How
did he justify this statement?
5. Why did the landlord want to eject Griffin? Why did Griffin set the house on fire?
6. Why was it difficult for Hari to rob Anil?
Answers
Answer:
1. Anne herself reveals that she loved her grandmother a lot and that she used to think about her often. In 1942, on her birthday, she lit one candle for her grandmother along with the rest. This shows her affection for her grandmother.
2. Wanda had designed her paintings of dresses by keeping girls in her mind. ... She liked the girls and considered them as her friends. So she gifted them to the girls. It shows that she was nice, friendly and forgiving by nature.
3. The tiger is not happy being inside the zoo. He feels like running out of there. He ignores the visitors because he is not at all interested in them.
4. The author knew that the oppressor must be set free as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred . He is locked in prejudice and narrow mindedness. He is not truly free if he is talking someone else freedom .
5. The landlord wanted to eject Griffin from his house because his activities were whimsical. Griffin set the house on fire to take his revenge on the landlord.
6. It was very difficult for the thief to rob Anil because he was a careless man. The thief discerned that it’s easy to rob a greedy man, because he can afford to be robbed; but it doesn’t give pleasure to rob a careless man because sometimes he doesn’t even notice that he’s been robbed.