The writer carefully builds up an atmosphere of loneliness and grief in the story. working in group,pick out words/ phrases from the story that builds up the atmosphere.
Loneliness : An old man was walking through the town, now and again drawing his tattered clothes tighter to shield his body from the cold and biting wind.
Loneliness : His lonely way
Grief : The whole town was wrapped in deathly silence.
Answers
ANSWER :
Loneliness :
1…… such loneliness had come into his life since the day medium had gone away….
2. Tortured by doubt and remorse, he sat down in the glow of the charcoal Sigri to wait.
3. The old man went back slowly to the bench on which he had been accustomed to sit for five long years.
4. The newly awakened father's heart in him was the reproaching him for having failed to understand Ali's anxiety, for now he himself had to spend another night of restless anxiety.
Grief :
1.Now he understood the meaning of love and separation.
2….. he sat under a tree and wept bitterly.
3. His eyes were filled with tears of helplessness , for his patience was exhausted even though he still have faith.
4. Today is my last day, my very last, alas! And I have not seen Miriam, I have had no letter from her.
5. Ali was leaning on a stick, and the tears were the wet on his face.
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