Question

At the surgery, the household dogs surged round me.
Tricki looked down at the noisy pack with dull eyes and,
when put down, lay motionless on the carpet.
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(a) Who is the speaker and whose surgery is
being referred to here?
(6) Why did the household dogs surge round the
speaker?
Why did Tricki look down with dull eyes and
why was he motionless when laid on the carpet?
(d) What did the household dogs do after Tricki
was laid on the carpet?​

Answer 1

Answer:

(a) the speaker is the author and tricky 's is being referred to here

(b) the household dogs surged around him because he came new at that place and was different from the other dogs at that place. The other dogs went there to check upon tricky

*he looked down with dull eyes because after gaining so much weight and fat he became very lazy and he she can't even walk properly

*he was motionless because he got tired of the journey and walk...

(d) the household dogs ignore him when he laid down on the carpet because he was very lazy and not energetic enough to play with them the other dogs found tricky very boring so they ignored tricky.

Answer 2

Answer:

The answers to the questions are as follows.

Explanation:

1. The narrator is the speaker and Tricki's surgery is referred to in the extract.
2. The household dogs surged around the speaker as he brought an unknown creature into the room.
3. Tricki was an extremely obese dog whose diet was beyond what a dog's usual diet contains. Tricki's eyes were bloodshot and rheumy apart from immobility owing to his bad diet. Thus Tricki can only look at the other dogs with its dull eyes while being motionless.
4. After the narrator lowers Tricki onto the carpet, after the initial curiosity when the household dogs did not experience anything that piqued their interest, they ignored Tricki.

The extract is from the short story A Triumph of Surgery by James Herriot and deals with an incident in which excessive love for someone leads to them inherently harming them.