What did Mr Alsop tell Rafferty about his friends?
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Who was Rafferty? Why had he gone to the Alsop farm?
Word Rafferty was a news reporter of the times. He had gone to the Alsop farm because he had received a telephonic information that these had been a crack-up of an air plane around there about which he wanted to get full information for his newspaper’ The Times’.
What made him conclude that the news was hoax?
After having reached around the Alsop farm, Rafferty found no crowd of confused or curious farmers over there around the Alsop house. There was no sign of the incident that Rafferty had been informed about. This made ward Rafferty conclude that the news of an airplane crash was a hoax, a false alarm intended to deceive the reporters.
How did Rafferty know Alsop wasn’t a times Reader?
Rafferty knew that Alsop was not a Times reader for Alsop would have know Rafferty’s name if he had read the times. But Alsop did not seem to be knowing of the name when Rafferty mentioned his name and it was clear from the episode that Alsop was not a reader of the Times.
When did Rafferty realize he had a story? Who did he feel had built the spaceship?
It was after reaching the barn and having a look at the contraption that Rafferty realized he had a story. It was certainly when all he was an airplane without wings only half inflated, globular on top and flat at the bottom.
The spaceship actually belonged to the men who bend iron with a hammer. Rafferty felt it as somebody’s crackpot idea of a spaceship.
Describe the visitors who had come in the contraption?
The visitors who had come to the Alsop in the contraption were strange creatures. They were aliens from somewhere in space. They had long flexible antennae. Their faces were pale blue completely bereft of expressions. One of them was a woman, and other the man. They could not talk. They would only make pictures for anyone talking to them.
How did they communicate with the Alsop?
The visitors communicated with the Alsop by moving their antennae towards them (Alsop) and by bending them down until they focused on them between the eyes which would make them think what the visitors thought.
‘Rafferty looked slyly at the people who bent iron‘. Why did he look at them slyly?
Rafferty thought that he should not be looking at them. He did not want the aliens to see him looking at them. So he looked slyly at them. It is also indicative of the fact that Rafferty suspected them as no extraordinary creatures but a fraud.
What made Rafferty change his mind about the visitors being fraud?
Rafferty changed his mind about the visitors being fraud when the female alien focused her antennae on Rafferty between the eyes and he, in a jiffy, under went a terrible experience by feeling as if his brain were made of rubber and by experiencing his mind being pounded. This terrible experience made him change his mind about the aliens because it was only then that he felt that the creatures were not a fraud.
Why were the visitors in a hurry to leave?
The visitors were in a hurry to leave because they had to catch the tide or something like that. They couldn’t wait for they had to leave as it was the time when the moon was in the right place. If they would have waited, they would not had found the moon in that right position.
Why had the visitors returned to the Alsop farm?
The visitors had returned to the Alsop farm to get eggs and brooder and feed for their use in space.
What happened to the star ducks?
Years back the aliens had brought to the Alsops some eggs of their own trade . The Alsop called those eggs as ‘star ducks’. They set them under a hen which bothered the hen awfully. According to the Alsop only two of them had lived and they ate them for thanksgiving.
Do you think Rafferty had a story? Why/ why not?
No, Rafferty did not have a story for his paper ‘the Times’ because the visitors (aliens) disappeared in to space hurriedly. He didn’t get the camera to photograph them. Without a photograph of those creatures his reporting would have been convincing. So, he was made to leave without a story, completely dejected and unhappy.
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