Question

Describe the ambiance, environment, atmosphere, condition of the place around the pontoon bridge

Answer 1

Answer:

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

It was my business to cross the bridge, explore the bridgeheads beyond and find

out to what point the enemy had advanced. I did this and returned over the

bridge. There were not so many carts now and very few people on foot, but the

old man was still there.

(Old Man at the Bridge- Ernest Hemingway)

(i) Describe the old man seated near the bridge. [3]

(ii) Describe the scene at the bridge at the beginning of the story. [3]

(iii) What was the narrator’s duty? [3]

(iv) Why did the old man have to leave his home?

Why was he the last one to leave town?

[3]

(v) How does Hemingway show us the effect of war on the lives of common

people through the story of the Old Man at the Bridge?

Explanation:

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