Question

Answer the following questions.
1. How was the advice the narrator received from his friends?
2. When was the narrator offered the advice?
3. Why did the narrator's friends advise him to take meat?
4. Why was the narrator reluctant to eat flesh?
5. What does the term 'consumption' here refer to? ​

Answer 1

Answers are given below.

Explanation:

1. When he was leaving for Aden one of his friends advised him to take eight bottles of wine with him.

2. The narrator was offered advice when his friends realized that he can not live without meat as the meat was his absolute necessity.

3. His friends advised him to eat meat because the weather was quite cold and he would feel numbness.

4. He was reluctant to eat flesh because he promised his mother not to eat meat.

5. "Consumption" means the utilization of resources.

Answer 2

Answer:

1. given by friends

2. when he had started eating meat

3. meat eating would keep him healthy

4. he had promised his mother he would not do so

5. eat