why do you think the woman bent her back a little more when her husband came home? was her husband helpful? support your answer quoting from the poem.
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After spending a leisurely Sunday at home, the very thought of returning to work on Monday is tiring.’ Do you agree? Have you ever felt so?
Ans: ‘After spending a leisurely Sunday at home, the very thought of returning to work on Monday is tiring. Yes, I agree with the statement. It quite obvious for some people but not for all. Sometimes I also felt so.
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2. The last sentence of the first paragraph and the first sentence of the second paragraph appear to contradict each other. What could be the reason for the change in the decision?
Ans: The last sentence of the first paragraph ‘Obviously I did not want to go’. The first sentence of the second paragraph ‘However, I finally did decided to go’. These two sentences are contrary in meaning. At first the narrator did not want to go to work because he spend six months of time at home joyously and he did not want to leave behind his newly-wed wife. But later he decided to go because he had debts. He had no more leave. And his marriage increased his responsibilities.
3. Why did the author get into debt? Think of some possible reasons.
Ans: The author was in debt. He might have got into debt by the following reasons:
(1) He might have got into debt with the marriage expenses. (2) He might have got into debt as he had no salary when he was on leave. (3) He might have paid off his father’s debts.
4. Why was the author reluctant to carry his own luggage? What would you do it you were in the author’s place?
Ans: The narrator was reluctant to carry his own luggage. Carrying the box was physically difficult and mentally unacceptable for him. His education made him useless for physical work. His government job filled his mind with false prestige. He thought people would feel bad if he carrying his trunk. If I were in the author’s place, I would myself carry my luggage.
5. The author feared that the whole world would laugh at him if he carried the trunk. Was the fear imaginary or real? Give reasons for your answer.
Ans: The author thought the whole world would laugh at him if he carried his trunk. His fear was only imaginary. No one would laugh at him if he carried his own luggage as he was a young man and it was an easy thing for him to carry it. In fact all the people would praise him for his modesty for not making his father carry the luggage.
6. Choose one sentence from the story that best expresses the author’s false prestige. Support your answer with details from the story.
Ans: “If I carried the luggage, my father and my people, in fact the whole world would laugh at me …..” This sentence expresses the author’s false prestige. In fact, his education made him useless for physical work. His government job and his pride made him think that it would be better to let his father carry it. These details show us his false prestige.
7. What does the phrase ‘opposite directions’ in the last sentence suggest?
Ans: The phrase ‘Opposite directions’ suggest that the ways of the author and his father which are quite different. The author’s way is a luxurious one in which he can enjoy all the pleasures and his father’s way is difficult and laborious one which is pebble-strewn road. The opposite directions are symbolic of their life-styles also.
8. How was the story told? Were the events narrated in the order in which they had happened? Spot the sentences where the course of narration changed its directions. How effective was it?
Ans: The narrator told his own experiences in the story. Most of the events are narrated in the order of their happening. But the narrator suddenly went into the past to describe some events and came back to continue his narration. One is: The narrator recollects how a porter carried his luggage while coming home. At another place, the narrator remembers how father had provided for his education. The way he realized his parents’ dreams, etc.
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He supported her husband as per his strength......
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