lesson -
The portrait of a Lady
answer these following questions
1) where was the grandmother's portrait hung?
2) which thought was revolting to the author?
3) Give a description of the grandmother?
4) how did the grandmother walk?
5)how did the grandmother take care of the other when he was a child?
7)what did the grandmother carry for the dogs and when where they thrown to the dogs?
8) what did the grandmother do when the preist thoughts the student?
9) what was the the turning point of friendship between the author and the grandmother and why?
10) what were the subjects the author learn in the English School?
11) what was the grandmother's view about the music lessons?
12) when was the friendship between the author and the grandmother snapped?
Answers
Answer:
1. The portrait of the narrator's grandfather hung in the drawing room. He wore a turban and loose-fitting clothes. His long, white beard gave him the look of a 100-year-old man who could have only grandchildren.
2. the thought was almost revolting is from khushwant singh . This expression means it was very hard for the author to believe that his grandmother was young, pretty,and beautiful.
3. The poet ( Khushwant Singh ) describes his grandmother as Short ,fat and a little Stooped. He also describes her as being not pretty in the traditional sense but her serenity made her beautiful as she always used to chant silent prayers from beads of rosary. She was always in spotless white.
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5. The grandmother took a minute care of the writer during his childhood beginning from walking him up,bathing and dressing him to accompanying him to school and coming back home. She did not forget to give him breakfast. Yes, she was certainly a good companion of the writer,as his parents lived in the City.
7. The authors grandmother would feed stale chapattis to the village dogs on their way to school . She would help the author get ready for school and would also accompany him there . On their way they used to carry several stale chapattis to feed the stray dogs
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9. The turning point in the narrator's and his grandmother's friendship came when the author was summoned to the city by his parents. In the village, he and his grandmother had been going together to the school . His grandmother was also able to help him with his studies.
10. The author was taught english word, little things of western science, the law of Archimedes Principle, the world being round and he was also taught music and grand mother was totally against it.
11. According to grandmother music had lewd associations and it was the monopoly of harlots and beggars.It was not meant for gentlefolk. Accordingto author's grandmother music is only meant for lewd classes such as harlots and beggars.
12. The common link between the grandmother and the grandson was the room they share in the city house which was ultimately snapped when the author went to university. He got a different room and grandmother was alone and used to be busy in reciting prayers and spinning the wheel.
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