the mist affords a certain privacy' 'a paradise that might have been' explain the two sentences
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The excerpt is taken from “A Short Monsoon Diary”. It is written by famous writer Ruskin Bond. In this story he describes about the hilly region and the climate. Here he described about the mist that covers the region silently and a blanket of silence covers the area. The mist is so thick that no one can see through it.
The first day of monsoon mist. And it’s strange how all the birds fall silent as the mist comes climbing up the hill. Perhaps that’s what makes the mist so melancholy; not only does it conceal the hills, it blankets them in silence too. Only an hour ago the trees were ringing with birdsong. And now the forest is deathly still as though it were midnight. Through the mist Bijju is calling to his sister. I can hear him running about on the hillside but I cannot see him.