Apparent illogicality sometimes turns out to be a futuristic projection? Discuss.
It is true that apparent illogicality sometimes turns out to be a futuristic projection. There are lot of example which was first seemed to be foolish and illogical but now it is the reality. If Thomas Alva Edison thought about the bulb in the seek of light and invented it, if Alexander Graham Bell didn’t invented telephone then it would have been impossible to believe that we can talk with people far from ourselves. So all these things which had seemed to be illogical but it turned into reality and made our lives easier than before. Similarly, it was also an illogical thing that we can travel from one place to another just like a time machine in the matter of time but it all get invented in the form of rail. So illogical things sometimes turns out to be futuristic projection.
Do you think that the third level was a medium of escape for Charley? Why?
Do you see an intersection of time and space in the story?
What do you infer from Sam’s letter to Charley?
Philately helps keep the past alive. Discuss other ways in which this is done. What do you think of the human tendency to constantly move between the past, the present and the future?
Would Charley ever go back to the ticket counter on the third level to buy tickets to Galesburg for himself and his wife?
‘The modern world is full of insecurity, fear, war, worry and stress.’ What are the ways in which we attempt to overcome them?
What does the third level refers to?
You have read ‘Adventure’ by Jayant Narlikar in Hornbill Class XI. Compare the interweaving of fantasy and reality in the two stories.
Who is the Tiger King? Why does he get that name?
Who was Dr Sadao? Where was his house?
Who is Jo? How does she respond to her father’s story-telling?
The two accounts that you read above are based in two distant cultures. What is the commonality of theme found in both of them?
‘The world’s geological history is trapped in Antarctica.’ How is the study of this region useful to us?
What kind of a person was Evans?
It may take a long time for oppression to be resisted, but the seeds of rebellion are sowed early in life. Do you agree that injustice in any form cannot escape being noticed even by children?
What are Geoff Green’s reasons for including high school students in the Students on Ice expedition?
What were the precautions taken for the smooth conduct of the examination?
Bama’s experience is that of a victim of the caste system. What kind of discrimination does Zitkala-Sa’s experience depict? What are their responses to their respective situations?
Who was Dr Sadao? Where was his house?
Will Dr Sadao be arrested on the charge of harbouring an enemy?
What will the Maharaja do to find the required number of tigers to kill?
Did the Governor and his staff finally heave a sigh of relief?
Why is Antarctica the place to go to, to understand the earth’s present, past and future?
What is the author’s indirect comment on subjecting innocent animals to the willfulness of human beings?
Who is the Tiger King? Why does he get that name?
What could the Governor have done to securely bring back Evans to prison when he caught him at the Golden Lion? Does that final act of foolishness really prove that “he was just another good-for-a-giggle, gullible governor, that was all”?
Will the injured McLeery be able to help the prison officers track Evans?
What were the precautions taken for the smooth conduct of the examination?