Question

I have some doubts relating to 'The letter' (these questions are urgent)

Q1 'Ali got up too and saluting the post office as though it housed some precious relic,went off.A pitiable figure a century behind his time.' (no. 20) Justify.

Q2 I n line 25 -what does the post master mean by this?

Q3 ''it seems as though the ........world is rather like the poet's I should think.'


who was the speaker?

what does the speaker mean?

why has the speaker compared 'the man's world' as a poet's?




Q4 'But the postmaster now watched them as eagerly as though each contained a warm,beating heart.He no longer thought of them in terms of envolpes and postcards. He saw the essential human worth of a letter.'(no. 67) Explain.

Answer 1

Ali is called a figure century behind the time because he is not bothered about anything that is going around him. His only concern is coming to the post office daily and waiting for his daughter's letter.

The post master said that 'Mad men are strange people' By this statement he meant that mad men act very differently from others. Ali was labelled as a mad man by everyone at the post office and the post ,master too believed them. He thought Ali acted strangely.

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