How does Iswaran describe the uprooted tree on the highway? What effect does he want to create in his listeners?
Iswaran narrated the uprooted tree on the highway as eyebrows made appropriately and hands stretched out in the dramatic manner. He would being by saying that the road was distant and he was also all alone. Suddenly, he found something which looked like a huge bushy beast lying across that had fallen down its dry branches and were spread out. The effect that he wanted to create is suspense concluding in a very small incident which he narrates to the readers.
Can you think of some other ending for the story?
In what way is Iswaran an asset to Mahendra?
How does he narrate the story of the tusker? Does it appear to be plausible?
Mahendra calls ghosts or spirits a figment of the imagination. What happens to him on a full-moon night?
Why does the author say that Iswaran seemed to more than make up for the absence of a TV in Mahendra’s living quarters?
What are the things the child sees on his way to the fair? Why does he lag behind?
How does Toto come to grandfather’s private zoo?
What are the two strange things the guru and his disciple find in the Kingdom of Fools?
Why do the courtiers call the prince ‘the Happy Prince’? Is he really happy? What does he see all around him?
What havoc has the super cyclone wreaked in the life of the people of Orissa?
What is Johnsy’s illness? What can cure her, the medicine or the willingness to live?
What does the author notice one Sunday afternoon? What is his mother’s reaction? What does she do?
Bill Bryson says, “I am, in short, easily confused.” What examples has he given to justify this?
Has Lushkoff become a beggar by circumstance or by choice?
In the fair he wants many things. What are they? Why does he move on without waiting for an answer?
During their conversation Lushkoff reveals that Sergei’s cook, Olga, is responsible for the positive change in him. How has Olga saved Lushkoff?
Why did the swallow not leave the prince and go to Egypt?
Why does the lost child lose interest in the things that he had wanted earlier?
What are the two strange things the guru and his disciple find in the Kingdom of Fools?
The cat and the author are very fond of each other. How has this been shown in the story? Where was the cat after the fire? Who brings it back and how?
How does Bill Bryson end up in a “crash position” in the aircraft?
Sergei says, “I am happy that my words have taken effect.” 5Why does he say so? Is he right in saying this?
What are the precious things mentioned in the story? Why are they precious?
What reasons does he give to Sergei for his telling lies?
How has Prashant, a teenager, been able to help the people of his village?