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Read And Respond 1. What is special about the friendship between Antonio and Felix?           Antonio Cruz and Felix Vargas were both 17. They were so together in friendship that they felt like brothers. They had known each other from childhood. They grew up in the same building on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. 2. How did they work to achieve their dream?          They both had a dream – becoming a light-weight champion of the world. Whenever they got a chance they exercised, sometimes at the Boy’s Club and sometimes at the gym. They would run every day morning, wearing sweat shirts and short towels around their necks. They had a collection of Fight magazines. They also kept the torn tickets of all the boxing matches they had gone to see. They also had some clippings of their own. 3. What was the wall rising between them?             They both had a dream – becoming a light-weight champion of the world. They both practised hard. They were told that they were to meet each other in t

Think And Write 1. Why does the poet say that there is something that doesn’t love, a wall?          The poet says that there is something that does not love the wall because nobody sees or hears anybody breaking the wall. But every spring season, the poet finds the wall is broken. So it is obvious that there is something that does not love a wall and wants to see it broken. It is this ‘something’ that makes the ground under the wall swell causing the stones of the wall to fall down on to either side. 2. Why does the poet meet his neighbour beyond the hill at spring?        The poet meets his neighbour beyond the hill at spring so that they can fix one day and walk along the wall to mend it by picking up the fallen stones and fixing them back. 3. How does the poet and his neighbour mend the gaps in the wall?        The poet and his neighbour mend the gaps in the wall by walking along the wall on either side and picking up the fallen stones and placing them back on the wall in an effort

TEXTUAL QUESTIONS 1. What is a‘horegallu’? What is its purpose?       A horegallu is a stone bench. It helps tired persons to sit down and rest for sometime so that they can regain their energy. 2. What are the special memories the author associates with ‘horegallu’?         The special memories the author associates with ‘horegallu’ are about her grandfather sitting on the horegallu talking with villagers who work in the nearby fields. Her grandfather was a retired school teacher and he would sit on the horegallu under the banyan tree in the village. The tired villagers would come and sit on the stone bench and talk to her grandfather. When she felt tired after playing she would also sit near her grandfather listening to the conversations he was having with the villagers resting there. 3. How does the grandfather refresh the travellers?       The grandfather refreshed the travellers just by listening to them. The villagers would talk of their troubles to him and he would listen. This

Textual Questions 1. Why are women compared to matchboxes?       They are compared to matchboxes because like matchboxes they too contain enough gun powder to make a hundred Lankas burn. But they sit around meek and innocent in the kitchen, in the pantry, in the bedroom, in fact in any place. 2. What makes Nomita furious?        Ajit’s habit of reading letters addressed to her makes her furious. Sometimes he does not even show her the letters. She tried many things to stop him from that habit. She showed anger, took offence, tried to shame him and used sarcasm. Nothing worked. He just laughs it away. 3. What is the suspicion in Nomita’s mind?         The suspicion in Nomita’s mid is that Ajit does not give her all the letters that are addressed to her. 4. What is called an ‘ugly habit’? Why?         The habit of Ajit opening and reading the letters addressed to Nomita is called the ugly habit. He says that he does it because he wanted to make sure that someone does not send her love le