LONG/ DETAILED ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS (to be answered in about 100-
150 words each)
1. Iswaran was a master storyteller. Describe his amazing capacity of narrating stories and anecdotes.
2. Describe Iswaran's encounter with the elephant.
3. How does Iswaran describe the uprooted tree on the highway? What effect does he want to create on his listeners?
4. Storytelling is an art. Comment with reference to the story "Iswaran the Storyteller'.
5. Iswaran served his master Mahendra with devotion and honesty. Do you think he was an ideal servant to his master?
(Answer any two of the questions)
Answers
1. Ans: lswaran was a master storyteller. He was fond of reading popular Tamil thrillers. The stories that he narrated were greatly influenced by these novels. He narrated even the smallest of incidents by creating a lots of suspense. For example, if he had to describe a fallen tree, he would not simply say that he saw an up-rooted tree on the highway. He would say, “The road was deserved and I was all alone. Suddenly I spotted something that looked like an enormous beast. But as I came closer I saw that it was only a fallen tree.” In order to make stories interesting, lswaran added dramatic gestures to it. He would give the stories a surprise ending. Sometimes he would not end the story in order to heighten his master’s curiosity. Often he was ex-cited while telling a story. Then he would jump and stamp his feet in excitement.
2. Ans: One day, lswaran told Mahendra the story of a mad elephant. One day a tusker from timber yard escaped and reached the town. People ran here and there in terror. After sometimes the elephant entered a school ground where children were playing. All the boys ran into the rooms and shut the doors of the classrooms. The elephant pulled out the football goalpost, tore the volleyball net and broke the drum kept for water. Everyone watched helplessly. Iswaran said that he was studying in the junior class at that time. He grabbed the stick of a teacher and came to the elephant. He struck the elephant’s third toenail with that stick. It shivered and fell down. A veterinary doctor was called. After two days, the elephant’s mahout came and took it away. Iswaran told Mahendra that he made the elephant unconscious using the Japanese art karate or ju-jitsu.
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