Question

Read the given paragraph and answer the question

A first glimpse of him is shocking because he is like a still photograph – as if all those pictures of

him in magazine and newspapers have turned 3 dimensional. Then you see the head twisted sideways into

slump, the torso shrunk inside the pale blue shirt, the wasted legs; you look at his eyes which

speak still, and they are saying something huge and urgent.

Before you, like a lantern whose walls are worn so thin you glimpse only the light inside,

is the incandescence of a man. The body most irrelevant , exists only like a case made of shadows.

So that I no believer in eternal souls, know that this is what each of us is; everything else an accessory.


Questions :

1) Describe the physical appearance of Stephen Hawking ?

2) What did the writer compare Hawking’s body to?

3) The first glimpse of him is shocking? Give Reason?

4) Give other words from the passage 1) Chest 2) Everlasting




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Answer 1

Solution-

(i) There was his assistant on the line ...

There was his assistant on the line and I told him I had come in a wheelchair from India.

(ii) You get fed up with people asking you to be brave, ...

You get fed up with people asking you to be brave, as if you have a courage account on which you are too lazy to draw a cheque.

(iii) There he was, ...

There he was, tapping at a little switch in his hand trying to find the words on his computer.

(iv) You look at his eyes which can speak, ...

You look at his eyes which can speak and they are saying something huge and urgent.

(v) It doesn’t do much good to know …

It doesn’t do much good to know that there are people smiling with admiration to see you breathing still.