Question

It is not the pride or incivility on either side that keeps us remote from each other. It is

simply our London way. People are so plentiful that they lose their identity. In London

men are as lonely as oysters. Each live in his own shell. We go out in the country to find

neighbours. If the man next door took a cottage a mile away from me in the country,

I should probably know all about him, his affairs, his family, his calling and his habits.

This is not always as idyllic as it seems. Village life can be poisoned by neighbours

until the victim pines for the solitude of a London street, where neighbours are so

plentiful that you are no more conscious of their individual existence than if they were

black berries on a hedge row.

Questions

i. What keeps people in London remote from each other?

ii. How are men described? Why?

iii. Why do we seek country life?

iv. What is the disadvantage of village life?

v. What can you say in this context about our interaction with our neighbour?​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. People are so plentiful that they lose their identity. 2. Men are described as oyster shells. The being inside the oyster shell never wishes to know who lives outside. 3. We seek country life to find neighbours. 4. Village life is not idyllic. Neighbours tend to poison village life. 5. India has not deteriorated to the level of London city. We still care for the neighbours as neighbours care for us.