Prepare any one project out of the following in about 500 words.
(a) In India, medicines have traditionally been prepared from plants, spices and everyday
kitchen ingredients. Our mothers and grandmothers know how to prepare these medicines
at home. They often use such home remedies to cure small health problems and ailments.
Title : Medicinal plants and kitchen ingredients used for home remedies.
Objective: To make people aware of the various common medicinal plants or kitchen
ingredients used for home remedies.
Step-I: Collect information from your grandmother and elderly ladies in the neighbourhood
about home remedies.
Step-II : Under each medicinal plant or ingredient, write the ailment ailments for which
it is used.
Step-III : Tabulate the whole information under the main head - Home Remedies' with
the following sub-heads:
(i) Name of ingredients /plants
(ii) Ailment/Ailments
(iii) Availability
(iv) Usage
Answers
Answer:
The narrator
The unnamed narrator is an active character in the short story. Because the text was inspired by Hemingway’s real life experience in Spain as a war correspondent, we can assume the narrator is a fictional persona of the author. All that the text reveals about the narrator’s outer characterization is that his job was to “to cross the bridge, explore the bridgehead beyond and find out to what point the enemy had advanced” (ll. 9-11), which implies that he was a scout (an individual sent first to investigate a territory).
Inner characterization
The narrator’s inner characterization is constructed through dialogue, actions, and the way he depicts the events.
The way the narrator depicts the war setting and the old man suggests that he pities the situation of the Spanish and that he is against fascists and war in general: “…how long now it would be before we would see the enemy, and listening all the while for the first noises that would signal that ever mysterious event called contact, and the old man still sat there.” (ll. 26-29); “There was nothing to do about him. It was Easter Sunday and the Fascists were advancing toward the Ebro.” (ll. 71-72)
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The old man
The old man is the second character in the short story, who is presented from the narrator’s perspective. According to his outer characterization, he comes from a town called San Carlos (l. 14), he is “seventy-six years old” (l. 42), he has no family, and he used to take care of animals.
His physical portrait is conveyed on several occasions, and helps suggest the idea of helplessness: “An old man with steel rimmed spectacles and very dusty clothes sat by the side of the road.” (ll. 1-2); “...I looked at his black dusty clothes and his gray dusty face and his steel rimmed spectacles…” (ll. 21-22)