(a) How did the crocodile feed himself while living in the river ?
(b) What was the 'blue bead' which forms the title of the story by Norah
Burke ?
(c) Give an account of the thin, starving village girl, Sibia, emphasizing her
poor economic background.
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Answer:
(a) The big crocodile fed mostly on fish, but also on deer and monkeys come to drink, perhaps a duck or two. But sometimes here at the ford he fed on a pi-dog full of parasites or a skeleton-cow. And sometimes he went down to the burning ghats and found the half-burned bodies of Indians cast into the stream.
(b) The Blue Bead is a work of famous novelist and non-fiction writer, Norah Burke. It is a story depicting the heroic deed of a twelve-year-old girl named Sibia. She saves the life of a Gujar woman from a crocodile without wasting a moment. She was a simple Indian girl living in poverty.
(c) Sorry I don't know this one
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Sibia is the protagonist of the story “The Blue Bead” written by Norah Burke. She lives in a mud house in a noisy village and dressed in an earth-coloured rag. The rag had been torn in two to make a skirt and sari for her. The writer describes her as “a happy, immature child-woman” about twelve years old. Her meal consists of a chupatti wrapped around a smear of green chilli and rancid butter. She wears no shoes. She is as the writer tells us, “born to toil.” She has to husk the corn, gather sticks for fuel and put dung to dry up. She has to fetch water from the river and cut grass for animals fodder. On its often, she has to do the cooking job to help her mother.