Q. 2. (A) Read the following passage and do the activities :
A1. Answer in very brief:
[10 Marks]
(2)
(i) Language of the novel :
(ii) In his first reading, the reviewer was left :
(iii) After recent reading the reviewer was :
(iv) It fights for its life desperately :
Writing Style :
Hemingway's language is simple and pithy. He mostly writes in short and straight-forward
sentences and practises an extreme economy in his use of words. This simplicity is deceptive
and a reader can read his work again and again and find new layers of meaning every time.
My Thoughts :
I first read this novel years ago, when I did not understand it at all and was left unimpressed.
In spite of this a vivid image remained with me - an old man holding on to his fishing line
with the last of his strength. Recently I read this book again and was extremely moved. The
formidable strength of the old man's character, the quiet devotion of the empathetic Manolin and
the relationship between the two are heartwarming. Hemingway's descriptions of the sea and
the creatures of the water are beautiful. The marlin fights for its life desperately and it's hard to
know whether our sympathies should lie with the old man or with the marlin. But as the novel
progresses the old man and the marlin are inseparably linked because both stand for the same
ideal
, that is, a noble struggle against destruction.
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Answers
Read the excerpt from Heart of a Samurai and then answer the question.
Eleven eyes. When at last he dared to look up, what he noticed was their eyes. Each pair a different color: green as a stormy sea, blue as the sky, black as night, or brown as his own. One man had only one eye, and that one as gray as a cloudy day. The other eye was covered with a patch.
There did not seem to be any tails, horns, or fangs among them. There were some alarmingly hairy faces and plenty of big noses, though!
Six big noses, in fact: one long and hooked, two long and straight, one squashed and wide, one turned up at the end, and another as big and red as a radish.
Based on this excerpt, what can readers infer about the stories the fishermen were told about the barbarians?
The stories are completely true.
The stories lack detail.
The stories are completely false
The stories are exaggerations
PLEASE HURRY! I WILL MARK BRAINLIEST!
Answer:
1. Language of the novel : simple and pithy
2. In his first reading, the reviewer was left : unimpressed
3. After recent reading, the reviewer was left : moved and impressed
4. It fight for its life desperately : the marlin