1st PUC ENGLISH NOTES - ORU MANUSHYAN

 

Chapter 4

ORU MANUSHYAN

Vaikom Muhammad Basheer

Comprehension

I.

1) How far was the big city from the narrator’s home-town?
Ans: The big city was around a thousand five hundred miles far from the narrator’s home town.

 

2) Where did the narrator stay in the big city?
Ans: The narrator stayed in a very small, dingy room in the big city.

 

3) For the money, people would do anything, even ______ (Fill in the blank)
Ans: For the money, people would do anything, even commit murder.

 

4) What was the narrator doing to earn a living?
Ans: The narrator was teaching English to some migrant labourers to earn a living.

 

5) ______ was considered a great education there.
(a) Learning English
(b) Learning to write an address in English
(c) Writing addresses at the post-office.
Ans: (b) Learning to write an address in English.

 

6) What reason did the narrator give for sleeping all day and having food in the evening?
Ans:  The narrator could save the expense of drinking his morning tea and eating the noon meal was the reason that he gave reason for sleeping all day and having food in the evening.

 

7) How much money did the narrator have in his pocket as his life’s savings?
Ans: The narrator had fourteen rupees in his pocket as his life’s savings.

 

8) The man who came forward to pay the narrator’s bill was
(a) a man with a red turban.
(b) a person dressed in a suit.
(c) a money lender.
Ans: (a) A man with a red turban.

 

II.

1) Describe the people and the place where the incident took place.

Ans: The occupants didn't show the goodness of leniency in their heart and were a remorseless parcel. The place was a significant large city in the valley of a mountain. They were prepared to do anything for cash. Stunning episodes like homicide, theft, pick stashing were the thing to get done. The occupants filled in as troopers, cash loan specialists and guardians in banks/plants/business foundations. They had no information on English and it was like they were content in their own little universe of malevolence and unpleasantness.

 

2) What was the routine of the narrator in the city?

Ans: The routine of the narrator in the city was nothing energizing about the daily practice of the narrator in the city. He showed the transient workers English as they needed to compose addresses in English at the mailing station. As they were working individuals, he could show them just at night. As a rule, his educating went on from nine-thirty till eleven in the night. Since he earned practically nothing, he dozed the entire day and woke up at four at night to keep away from the costs of morning tea and early afternoon lunch.

 

3) Give an account of the embarrassing experience of the narrator at the restaurant.

Ans: The embarrassing experience of the narrator at the restaurant was that the narrator went to a restaurant to have his food and when he needed to take care of the bill of eleven annas. However, the owner felt that the speaker was attempting to swindle him, and took steps to gouge his eyes out. None of the others at the eatery appear to have any generosity either. The narrator begged owner to keep his jacket as guarantee and the owner laughed asked off his jacket, shirt, and shoes. At the point when he needs the speaker to eliminate even the pants, the speaker begs him for leniency saying he has nothing inside. This just summons more chuckling and the café proprietor, alongside fifty others assembled there, powers the speaker to strip further saying jokingly, "There must be something inside." The speaker, presently surrendered to his destiny, begins unfastening his pants, constantly envisioning himself standing stripped before others, with his eyes gouged out. We see that the storyteller isn't just humiliated yet additionally embarrassed. Since he isn't a cheat, it probably been horribly humiliating for him to have understood that he had eaten his food at the cafe; however had no cash to pay for the food. His humiliation would have expanded when the proprietor of the cafe regarded him as a cheat.

 

 

4) A stranger saved the day for the narrator. How?

Ans: At the point when the narrator is at the purpose of eliminating his pants however he has nothing inside, a blue-peered toward,' reasonable complexioned six-footer, with a red turban and white pants, intercedes and offers to pay the sum due from the storyteller to the eatery proprietor. He requests that the speaker go with him and when the appreciative speaker requests his name, he says he has no name. At the point when the speaker says 'Benevolence' must be his name, he doesn't respond and strolls on until they arrive at an abandoned extension. There, in the wake of ensuring that nobody is near, the more unusual takes out five wallets and solicits the speaker which from these is his. He cautions the speaker to disappear without pivoting and includes that the speaker ought not to admit to anybody that he has seen the man. He gives the wallet, which has been distinguished by the speaker, with the cash unblemished and leaves the spot wishing the speaker that he be helped by God. The speaker, on his part, trusts that God would support the outsider. Accordingly we see that the pickpocket helps the narrator at the café as well as outside by restoring the tote. This is the manner by which the thoughtful gesture picks up unimportance. Most importantly the pickpocket is adequate to help the one who faces embarrassment as he has lost his satchel.

 

III.

1) Does the story “Oru Manushyan” talk about transformation in a person/man?

Ans: Yes, the story “Oru Manushayn” talks about transformation in a person / man. The change is found in the pick-pocket. The pickpocket helps the narrator at the cafe as well as encourages him further by restoring the satchel. This is the means by which the thoughtful gesture gains in criticalness. Above all else the pickpocket is sufficient to help the one who faces mortification as he has lost his handbag; besides, he is sufficiently caring to restore the satchel; thirdly, the twelve annas that he pays isn't the storyteller's cash, yet his own. Maybe the pickpocket, up to that point, was not an observer to the issues made for individuals from whom he had taken their satchel. Possibly the narrator's predicament uncovers to him unexpectedly looks at the issues looked by individuals when they lose their handbag, with their well deserved cash in it. That is the reason, regardless of the way that individuals at that spot were generally barbarous, we see a change occurring in the core of the pick-pocket.

 

2) Do you think the restaurant keeper was over-reacting when the narrator could not pay the bill? If so, what accounts for his behaviour?

Ans:  Yes, the restaurant keeper was over- reacting when the narrator could not pay the bill. He gives the narrator no way by any means. Maybe every one of the individuals who professed to have lost their handbag was liars. In any event, when the narrator requests that he keep his jacket, he shows no mercy. He has a ton of perverted joy at the expense of the narrator while driving him to strip. He comes out as a pitiless man who has no pity at all for individuals with problems. However, there is the likelihood that he has ended up being so remorseless after unpleasant encounters. On the off chance that we consider the way that the individuals of that spot were prepared to do anything for cash, we ought to comprehend that the eatery proprietor may have had individuals hoodwinking him with a quizzical story of losing the handbag. Possibly throughout the long term, he has lost his tenderness and subsequently goes to the outrageous degree of abusing such individuals so others wouldn't try to concoct lies.

 

Vocabulary

Synonyms and antonyms

Work in pairs and find the synonym to the words given below. Refer to a Thesaurus if necessary.

1) Dilemma, quandary, plight, crisis                      : Predicament

2) Imprecise, inexplicit, nonspecific, indistinct      : Vague

3) Task, job, duty, errand                                         : Chore

4) Compassion, clemency, forgiveness, pity          : Mercy

5) Complete, Unharmed, entire, whole                  : Intact

 

Choose the word that is opposite in meaning to the word in capital letters.

1) UP          A. down      B. above     C. inside      : Ans: A. down

2) GIVE      A. share       B. take        C. release     : Ans: B. take

3) LARGE  A. huge       B. big           C. small       : Ans: C. small

4) HAPPY  A. glad        B. sad           C. calm       : Ans: B. sad

5) THIN      A. short       B. thick       C. skinny    : Ans: B. thick

6) BUY       A. sell         B. have       C. hold        : Ans: A. sell

7) TIGHT   A. free         B. loose       C. firm        : Ans: B. loose

8) CRUEL  A. bad         B. nice        C. kind        : Ans: C. kind

 

Use the suitable prefixes to form antonyms

          (il, dis, un, im, mis, in)

Ex: Climax – anticlimax 

1) Healthy             : Unhealthy

2) Mobile              : Immobile

3) Please               : Displease

4) Prove                : Disprove

5) Logical             : Illogical

6) Conception       : Misconception

7) Orthodox          : Unorthodox

8) Sane                 : Insane

9) Perfect              : Imperfect