L- The Wake Up Call
Q1) Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
“He collapsed right in the middle of a packed courtroom. He was one of this country's most
distinguished trial lawyers.”
i) Identify ‘he’ in the above context.
ii) Who is ‘I’ in the L- The Wake Up Call? How did he/she react?
iii) What happened to ‘he’? What led to this condition of ‘he’?
Q2) How did the narrator know Julian Mantle? Explain their relationship.
Q3) Collate all the information that you gathered about Mantle from the textbook so far.
Q4) Compare Julian Mantle’s current situation to his situation in the past. (atleast 4 points)
Answers
Answer:
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Answer:
i) "He" is Julian Mantle in the above extract.
ii) "I" is John who is a very good friend of Julian. He was scared that Julian would die and said,"Please don't die, you old fool. It’s too early for you to check out. You don't deserve to die like this. "
iii) After the unhealthy lifestyle of Julian and working for you hours led him to severe health problems. That day he got a heart atack and collapsed in the sam ecourtroom where he won The Mother Of All Murder Trials.
Q2) Julian and the narrator, John were always together because they were always at work. John was picked out by Julian to work with him on a sensastional murder case. John was choosen for his hunger as per Julian.
Q4) - In past he was all tensed whereas after the visit to Sivana he was stressless ans enjoyed his life without any worry.
- He looked young whereas before he looked as if he was in his late seventies.
- His late night visits to city's fonest restaurants with sexy young fashion models had left him embarrassingly owerwieht whereas now he was perfectly fit.
- He enjoyed every little moment of his life now and found happiness without expensive things.