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2. Where do the narrator and his companion want to go? Why are they unable to do so?
3. Why did the consul bang the table? Why was he angry?
4. What was the refugee offered by the committee and what did they ask him? What was his reaction?
5. What did the narrator see at the harbour? What did the refugee see in the woods?
6. What did the refugee see in his dream?
7. Who is looking for the refugees?
8. What is the setting of the poem?
9. The poem talks about the human rights violations suffered by a pair of German-Jewish people during the Second World War who are trying to find some refuge. What are the difficulties that they face?

CHAPTER NAME "REFUGEE BLUES"


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Answer 1

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The narrator and his companion were forced to flee persecution and violence in Nazi Germany. They were terrified of returning to Germany but also were unable to find a safe haven in countries like England or US because they kept tight quotas on the number of Jewish immigrants admitted each year.

Answer 2

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2) the narrator and his companion were forced to flee persecution and violence in nazi Germany. They were terrified of returning to Germany but also were unable to find a safe haven on countries like England or US because they kept tight quotas on the number of Jewish immigrants admitted each year .

3) The speaker tried to seek asylum in an unnamed country in Europe but that country frustratingly turned the speaker away. When the the consul asked for the passports , the narrator and his companion replied that their passports had expired. The consul become angry and shouted that if they had no passports. They were officially dead.

4) when the narrator went to the committee to get the passports renewed, they offered him a chair to sit and asked him to come next year. The narrator was disheartened and shocked because he did not know where to go.

5) The narrator saw the fish swimming at the harbour as if they were free. He also saw the birds singing freely in the words. They were all having better lives than he and his companion, a couple of Jews. There were no constraints and politicians to bind them. This shows the fallen state of his humans. The freedom that the fish and the birds enjoyed was not given to the Jews.

6) the refugee saw a huge buildings with thousands of rooms in his dream but none had their names written over it. This shows that there was no place for the refugee to reside.

7) the soldiers who were deployed to kill the Jews were looking for the refugee.

8) History of German - Jews rule of Hitler denied refugee in other countries- no safe place to live in depressing state.

9) Refugee, no asylum, disheartened, depressed , searching a safe heaven, denied basic rights , soldiers searching to kill .

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