10 (a) 'Pride goes before a fall.' Justify the statement on basis of the chapter Mrs. Packletide's Tiger.
10 (b) 'Only the bearer knows where the shoe pinches'. Elucidate the statement with reference to the story The Letter.
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10.a) The chapter Mrs. Packletides tiger portrays her character. She was a woman who lived an elite life filled with bride and show off. She always wanted to come above all. That is why, she paid the villagers to arrange for an old tiger. She wanted to portray herself to be important and came off as selfish and self centered. It was the work of the fate that she missed her target and shot the goat instead. She had to face a lot of embarrassment and lost a fortune.
This shows that people who tend to be selfish and pretentious always end up mocked by fate and people. All their financial work goes to waste while all they received in turn of their self obsession is regret and a failed life accompanied with others hatred.
10.b) The phrase :only the bearer knows where the shoe pinches means that nobody can know what pain or turmoil one is going through. Only the one going through it can know how it feels like to be a situation they are in.
According to the story, The Letter, Post office employees used to read Muhammad Ali's letters to mirrium and make fun of those letters. They were filled with pain and sorrow but as the phrase suggests, Only the bearer of pain knows how it feels like. The post office employees did not realise that to what they are laughing, has taken away some ones happiness.
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