Answer any one of the following questions in 150-200 words.
Describe Jerome's travel from Liverpool.
OR
Describe the glimpses of Kingston
OR
Which qualities of Gulliver’s character enabled him to secure his freedom from the Lilliputians Explain.
OR
Why were the Small Endians and the Big Endians at war ? How did it begin and what were the
consequences
Answers
When Jerome was in Liverpool, he was asked by his friend
to carry cheese to London for him as he (friend) would be reaching a day or two afterwards.
Jerome proudly carried it and marched up the platform and climbed up the train. The smell of the
cheese was too obnoxious. People sitting beside him could not tolerate the smell and had to leave
their seats. The Whole carriage seemed to be only for him. As the carriage was empty, many passengers
from other stations got inside with their baggage but when they had a sniff of the smell in the air,
they ran away to other carriages.
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The quaint back streets of Kingston looked quite picturesque in the flashing sunlight, the glinting river, its drifting barges, the wooded tow path, the trim-kept villas-all looked so bright but calm, so full of life and yet so peaceful. The Saxon kings war crowned there. Many of the old houses spoke plainly about the days when Kingston was a royal borough and nobles and courtiers lived there near their king and the long road to the palace gates were all colourful with prancing palfreys and rustling silks and velvets and fair faces.
OR
Although Gulliver knew for sure that he could defeat the Lilliputians, still he avoided using force when he was attacked with arrows which helped him in getting baskets of food and drinks. On another occasion, some mischievous youths shot arrows at Gulliver. The guards on duty handed them to Gulliver. Gulliver took pity on them and left them unharmed. This act of kindness on his part helped Gulliver win the emperor’s sympathy. Also by helping the emperor to avert an imminent attack by the Blefuscudians he earned the title of ’Nardiac’.
OR
The disagreement was on breaking of egg at smaller or larger
side.The people who broke eggs at larger ends were ’Big Endians’ and the people who broke eggs
at the smaller side were the ’Small Endians’. The Lilliputians were the Small Endians when the
grandfather of the king of Lilliput, when he was a boy, happened to cut one of his fingers as he broke
the egg according to the traditional way. Therefore, an edict was published commanding all the
subjects to break the eggs at the smaller end. Some people of Lilliput raised their voice against this
and were banished from the country for this. So, those who broke the eggs at the larger side were
known as ’Big Endians’. The war between the Endians brought destruction on a large scale in Lilliput
and Blefuscu.