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                Conceptual Fruit Textual Questions 1. How does the wife, and the son, react to the man’s excitement? What does this tell us about their character?        The wife and the son react to the man’s excitement in a negative way. They are uninterested in the whole thing. This tells that they are not much concerned with the happiness of Greta who is a differently-abled child. 2. Why are the son and the wife uninterested? Do you approve of their attitude?        The son is not interested because he wants to devote all his life to karate. The wife says she has been sitting in front of the computer and she wants to spend her evenings in the garden. Both of them are not bothered in the welfare or happiness of Greta. I don’t approve of their attitude. 3. Greta is a special child. How do you know that? Have you ever visited a special school?        I know that Greta is a special child because she had worked hard to tie her shoes by age ten. Although she was 16, she is in the 5th gra

               Is Society Dead? 1.What aspect of New York did the author notice?           The aspect of New York that the author noticed was that its nightlife was very much dead. 2. The day life in New York is powerfully presented in these lines. Suppose you describe the same in your own city, what points will you note?           I will note the noise of people talking and rushing, the vehicles hooting, the haste and hurry both by people and vehicles, the vendors of various fancy items trying to make a buck, and the worried faces of people. 3. Have you noticed i-Pod people in your town too? Is there any difference between toe i-Pod generation in New York and those in your own town?           Yes, I have noticed them in my town also. There is some difference between the i-Pod generation in New York and those in my town. Here the i-Pod people do not emit strange tuneless squawks and snap their fingers. Their arms don’t twitch here, as in New York. 4. What, according to the author, are

                                   The Cyber Space What is special about the ‘modern psyche’?         The modern psyche loves new frontiers. We love wide-open spaces; we like to explore; we like to make rules instead of following them. What is cyberspace? How has it evolved over the years?            Cyberspace is the community of networked computers. It is the imagined place where electronic data goes. Before it was a playground for computer nerds and techies. But now it embraces all kinds of people, including children. What type of metaphor is used by the author to describe cyberspace?            To describe the cyberspace the author has used the metaphor of real estate. Real estate is an intellectual, legal, artificial environment constructed on top of land. It recognizes the difference between parkland and shopping mall, between red-light zone and school district, between church, state and drug store. In the same way we can think of cyberspace as a giant and unlimited world of virt

              GOING OUT FOR A WALK 1. What does the author consider as the drawbacks of London?           The drawbacks of London are its endless noise and hustle, its smoky air and its squalor. 2. What is the author’s excuse to avoid walking?           The author’s excuse to avoid walking is to tell the people who call him for a walk that he has many letters to write. 3. Why is the author’s excuse ineffective?          The author’s excuse is ineffective in three ways: i) it is not believed; ii) it forces you to rise from your chair, go to the writing table and pretend to be writing a letter until the walk monger goes out of the room; iii) it won’t work on Sunday mornings because there is no post out till the evening. 4. What makes the author say that walking for walking’s sake stops one’s brain?           The author says that walking for walking’s sake stops one’s brain because then a person’s power to instruct or to amuse when he is sitting on a chair or standing on a hearth-rug leav

Activity - 1 ( Read And Respond) 1. I’ve thought of all by turns what are the things that the poet thinks of?             The things that the poet thinks of are a flock of sheep leisurely passing by one after one; the sound of rain, and bees murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, smooth fields, white sheets of water and pure sky. 2. Why couldn’t the poet sleep for three nights?           The poet couldn’t sleep for three nights because sleep was running away from him. 3. Do you think that sleep embraced the poet in the end? Why?           Yes, I think that sleep embraced the poet in the end because he entreated her not to run away and praised her with some fine words. 4. How many of you can identify with Wordsworth’s experience of lying awake until the ‘birds twitter their dawn chorus’?           Many of us can identify with Wordsworth’s experience of being sleepless the whole night as they are stressed out by the pressures of life and so they cannot fall asleep until the birds

               Gooseberries                                         - Anton Chekov 1. What purpose does the first sentence serve?               The first sentence serves as a suitable introduction to a story which itself talks about a sad and gloomy situation. It looks like rain but it does not come. Happiness is like the rain here. It looks like happiness but it is not there! 2. Can you guess what story Ivan was about to tell Bourkin?         The story is of two brothers who pursue happiness in their own ways. 3. How do you feel when it rains?         I feel sad and gloomy when it rains. I prefer sunshine to rain. 4. Describe Aliokhin’s appearance.         Aliokhin was about 40, tall and stout. He had long hair. He looked more like a professor or a painter than a farmer. At the time we see him first he was wearing a grimy white short and rope belt, and pants instead of trousers. His boots were covered with mud and straw. His nose and eyes were black with dust. 5. Why could

                      THE OUTCASTE                                   - Sharankumar Limbale Introduction                Sharankumar Limbale was born in 1956, is a Marathi language author, poet and literary critic. He has penned more than 40 books, but is best known for his autobiographical novel Akkarmashi. Akkarmashi is translated in several other Indian languages and in English. The English translation is published by the Oxford University Press with the title The Outcaste. His critical work Towards an Aesthetics of Dalit Literature (2004) is considered amongst the most important works on Dalit literature.                 Sharankumar Limbale is regarded as the most prolific writers of contemporary literature whose literature aimed to expose the brutality of the upper class in Maharashtra .Limbale is a socially committed novelist who has produced a good deal of literature. He has written articles and essays on a number of subjects. His novels fall into two categories namely social and