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?
Why is the author deeply embarrassed the next day in school? Which words show his fear and insecurity?
What havoc has the super cyclone wreaked in the life of the people of Orissa?
What does the swallow see when it flies over the city?
In the fair he wants many things. What are they? Why does he move on without waiting for an answer?
What is the significance of the title?
Why did the swallow not leave the prince and go to Egypt?
Bill Bryson “ached to be suave”. Is he successful in his mis- sion? List his ‘unsuave’ ways.
Why does the Happy Prince send a ruby for the seamstress? What does the swallow do in the seamstress’ house?
Behrman has a dream. What is it? Does it come true?
What reasons does he give to Sergei for his telling lies?