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Answer:STANDING UP FOR YOURSELF Yevgeny Yevtushenko Introducing the author Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (1933-2017) is a Russian poet, novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, actor, editor, and a director of films. Unit I Warm up Have you ever come across a child deserted by parents? How does he/she grow up? Who looks after his/her education? If you have not come across such an urchin in real life, see the harrowing experiences of growing up in the movie Slumdog Millionaire (2008), directed by Danny Boyle, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup. Read the following unit of the text and note how a Russian child has been brought up in the streets: The Text In 41, I was living alone in an empty flat in a quiet Moscow street … My parents were divorced and my father was somewhere in Kazakhstan with his new wife and their two children. I seldom received letters from him. My mother was at the front. She had given up her work as a geologist to become a singer and was giving concerts for the troops. My education was left to the street. The street taught me to swear, smoke, spit elegantly through my teeth, and to keep my fists at the ready - a habit which I have to this day. The street taught me not to be afraid of anything or anyone - this is another habit I have kept. I realized that what mattered in the struggle for life was to overcome my fear of those who were stronger. QESTIONS AND ANSWERS UNIT-I Think it out 1. Is the narrator a child or an adult narrating his childhood experiences ? Ans. The narrator is an adult narrating his childhood experiences. 2. Does the narrator have happy experiences in his childhood ? Why/Why not? Ans. The narrator has both happy and unhappy experiences in his childhood. His parents were divorced. His mother left him. These circumstarnces made him lonely. The street become his teacher. He cultivated all bad habits. Another good habit he developed was the spit of fearless which he has kept intact till today
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