a. What is meant by tattered clothes? Why does the third one give his coat hitch?
2] The third one sat...... chance to spite the white.
b. Why the third one does not want to use his log to warm the rich?
c. What thoughts preoccupy the rich man's mind?
d. What does the rich man say about the lazy poor man?
e. What prejudice the black man has and for whom?
Answers
Answer:
a. Tattered clothes means torn and old clothes. This expression symbolise that the third person was a poor man. He gave his coat a hitch because he doesn't want to use his log to warm the idle rich.
b. The third one, that is , the poor does not want to share his piece of log to warm the rich because he thinks that he is lazy and idle. The rich always tried to complete all his work by the help of poor and never completed them himself. He always tried to protect his money from the poor.
c. The rich man's mind was preoccupied with the riches he has in store. He was thinking of how to keep safe what he had earned from the poor who he believes are 'lazy and shiftless'. The rich man's thought only reveals his obsession with wealth and his prejudiced mind against the poor.
d. The rich man feels that all poor men are so due to their laziness, when in reality it is not always correct. The poet's aim is to disclose these prejudices in our minds against one another.