Question

My neighbours quarrel over a strip of land that runs between their ancestral plots; it’s just wide enough and long enough to dig a good deep ditch to drain the poisons that have festered for ages between them, but not nearly enough to bury them, end on end. It makes me wonder; if we claim to own the land we live on down to the centre of the earth, which after all is just a pinpoint dot— who owns that dot? And who owns the rain we drink, and who the air we breathe? Can you or I or that millionaire buy a ray of light, the evening’s cool, the moonlight’s mystery? Who has the right to sicken a child to hurl a stone at my neighbour’s cat? Questions 3 and 4 are based on passage 2. 3. This question has two subparts, A+B. Both have to be answered: A. What is the message of the poem? What examples does the poet cite to convey his main idea? Explain in 250-300 words. (10 marks) B. Imagine you are a mediator between the two quarrelling parties trying to settle their dispute. In about 350-500 words, write 10 turns of dialogue where you as the mediator make an attempt to amicably settle the quarrel by giving both parties a chance to voice their grievances and arrive at a solution. (15 marks) 4. This question has two subparts, A+B. Both have to be answered: A. In the poem, the poet begins with a quarrel between two neighbours over a “strip of land between their ancestral plots”. Why does the poet think that such disputes are meaningless? Explain in 250-300 words. (10 marks) B. Imagine that you are a news reporter covering the quarrel between the two neighbours. Write a news report in about 350-500 words. (15 marks)

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