B. Answer these questions.
1. Where was the narrator going?
2. What made the narrator think that the couple who came to see the girl off were
perhaps her parents?
3. Why did the narrator's voice startle the girl?
4. What was the narrator's first question to the girl? How did she respond to it?
5. How did the narrator try not to give away the fact that he was totally blind at the time?
Answers
Answer:
1 The narrator was going to Pittsburgh by train. He observed that most of the passengers were ladies who refused to have the windows raised.
2 A girl entered the compartment at Rohana. The narrator thought that the people who came to see the girl off were probably her parents because they seemed quite anxious about her comfort
3The narrator thought his voice must have startled the girl because he was sitting in a dark corner and the girl could not recognise the presence of anybody else.
4The narrator's first question to the woman was if she was going all the way to Dehra. Probably because he had been sitting in a dark corner that his voice startled the woman. She gave a little exclamation and said that she didn't see him. How does the narrator express his discontent with people who have eyesight?
5 he spoke and behaved in a manner that she could not understand his blindness. he moved to the window and pretended to look out of the train
Answer:
1narrator was going to dehra and then he went
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