Unit – 08
THE TOWN BY THE SEA
Amitav Ghosh
Work with your partner, the
boy or the girl sitting next to you and do this exercise. If your answer is
“Not true”, say what is true. Substantiate all answers by reading to him/her
the relevant sentences in the passage. Write down your answers.
1) The director woke up with the feeling that
the building.
a) would be flooded, b) would be burnt down, c) would collapse (Underline the
phrase that completes the sentence)
Ans: a) would be collapse
2) The director cut off his wife’s call
because he wanted to save himself first. (True / Not True)
Ans: True.
3) The director lost the chance of hearing
his wife’s last words. (True / Not True)
Ans: True.
4) Car Nicobar Islands stand the highest
among Nicobar Islands. (True / Not True)
Ans: True.
5) Port Blair was hit by the rising sea
before Car Nicobar Islands. (True / Not True)
Ans: True.
6) The director heard from Malacca that his
family had survived. (True / Not True)
Ans: Not True.
7) The director’s heart broke when he felt
his son’s misery. (True / Not True)
Ans: True.
8) The poor thirteen-year-old’s
misery was that he had not been able to save his mother and sister. (True
/ Not True)
Ans: True
9) When did the director become really
anxious?
Ans: The director became really anxious at the
point he attempted to call his wife he didn't find any solution. The water in
the harbor had started to rise quickly and the moored transport appeared to
twirl. He hurried to the higher ground with others. It happened to the chief
that Nicobar Islands are low lying islands and Vehicle Nicobar Islands stand
just a couple of meters over the ocean level at their stature most noteworthy
point.
10) What did the director’s son tell him?
Ans: An
alarming sound from the heading of the ocean had driven them into the
drawing-room, however the boy had continued running; when the wave hit, the
house broke up into splinters. Thrashing his arms, he figured out how to grab
hold of something that appeared to be fixed to the earth. Through wave after
wave he figured out how to keep his grasp. At the point when the water
subsided, he saw that he was clutching the main upstanding structure when the
chief got some information about his mom and sister the boy cried and told him
that he had lost them forever.
11) The mother and her sister had died. The
boy feels he is to be blamed. This shows his sense of responsibility. Explain
this point.
Ans: The boy cried when his enquired about
his mom and sister as he felt his dad might reprimand him of disregarding them.
Being a thirteen years what might he had done or attempt to save them. In any
case, in that specific occasion without purposely, the boy fled in dread. Later
when he understood that, he atoned a great deal this was difficult to redress.
This sentiment of atonement made him to cry and furthermore shows his awareness
of others' expectations.
12) The director wanted to mourn alone
quietly. (True / Not True)
Ans: True.
13) Why did the director choose his slides
and not anything else?
Ans: The director chose his slides and not
anything else because it might cause more torment which brings the memory of
the past. It is a statement of the deepest sway of the self since nothing
currently stays to cloud its vision. In the way based on his personal
preference there was not a molecule of dithering, but rather discovered solace
in the information on an unoriginal exertion.
14) “Words seem futile,” says the author.
Explain what he means.
Ans: The author understood when the director
would not like to get compassion from others, he needed to grieve alone. So the
author felt that simple words are useless or futile to support anyone's
agonizing emotions.
15) How did the author himself intervene and
act in the course of the events?
Ans: The author contemplated internally that
words were of no utilization to anyone. In any event, thinking, reflecting, and
expounding on the occasions appeared to be minor and inefficient. In all
actuality no one realizes how individuals would respond around then. The truth
will surface eventually.
Word Information:
Write the names of five countries and then
make words from them using the shuffle –“an”
Exercise
Fill in the blanks to supply the correct forms
of the word “surprise”.
1) Surprised at finding the lone, hungry cub grandfather brought it home.
2) A tiger on the leash surprised people
on the street.
3) It was a surprise, for them
to see a man with a tiger.
4) “Don’t be surprised if he
eats up Mahamoud,” said Grandmother.
5) Surprisingly the tiger didn’t harm the man.
6) Surprisingly they all watched the man petting the tiger.
