2nd PUC ENGLISH NOTES - A SUNNY MORNING

 

Chapter - 05

A SUNNY MORNING

Comprehension I

1) Do you think Laura was a regular visitor to the park? What makes you think so?

Ans:  Yes, Laura was a regular visitor to the park. She contemplates whether someone would have involved her seat and whether the pigeons realize when to anticipate her and excitedly approach feed on the breadcrumbs

 

2) Why are Don Gonzalo and Laura annoyed with each other?

Ans: Don Gonzalo was annoyed with Laura because she addressed why he had utilized his handkerchief to brush his shoes and mathematically found out if he would utilize a shoe brush as a kerchief. And Laura was annoyed with Don Gonzalo because had had scared the pigeons.

 

3) Dona Laura reads without her glasses as

a) she has keen eyesight.

b) she wants to impress Gonzalo.

c) she knows every word by heart.

Answer: c) she knows every word by heart.

 

4) Gonzalo and Laura keep up a humorous conversation because they;

a) have nothing else to do.

b) enjoy being with each other.

c) have the same temperament.

Ans: c) have the same temperament.

 

5) Laura and Gonzalo’s friendly conversation begins with

a) Gonzalo reading the poems.

b) Laura’s witty remarks.

c) a pinch of snuff

 Ans: c) a pinch of snuff.

 

6) Do you think Laura is an effective narrator?

Ans: Yes. I think Dona Laura is an effective narrator.

 

7) Gonzalo does not reveal his identity because:

a) he no longer loves her.

b) his appearance has changed.

c) he looks grotesque and old.

Ans: c) he looks grotesque and old.

 

8) Laura Llorente was known as _______ in the locality in her younger days.

a) The Silver Maiden

b) Sovereign Beauty

c) Golden Lady

d) dream girl.

Ans: a) The Silver Maiden.

 

9) Who had occupied Gonzalo’s usual bench in the park?

Ans: Three priests had occupied Gonzalo’s usual bench in the park.

 

10) What is the name of Laura’s maid?

Ans: Petra is the name of Laura’s maid.

 

11) What is the name of Gonzalo’s servant?

 Ans: Juanito is the name of Gonzalo’s servant.

 

12) How many priests were sitting on the bench usually occupied by Don Gonzalo?
Ans: Three priests were sitting on the bench usually occupied by Don Gonzalo.

 

13) What does Don Gonzalo use to clean the dust off his shoes?

Ans: Don Gonzalo uses his handkerchief to clean the dust off his shoes.

 

14) Where, according to Don Gonzalo, is one of his estates located?

Ans: According to Don Gonzalo, in Aravaca is one of his estates located.

 

15) Name the villa in Valencia where Dona Laura spent her youth.

Ans: Maricela was the villa in Valencia where Dona Laura spent her youth.

 

16) What was Dona Laura’s original name?

Ans: Laura Llorente was Dona Laura’s original name.

 

17) Why do Laura and Gonzalo spin stories about themselves?

Ans: Laura and Gonzalo spin stories about themselves because to conceal each other’s identity.

 

18) According to Gonzalo, where did the young man go after the duel?

Ans: According to Gonzalo, the young man went to Seville and then to Madrid after the duel.

 

19) What did Dona Laura carry every day to feed the pigeons?

Ans: Dona Laura carried bread crumbs every day to feed the pigeons.

 

20) Where does the action of the play ‘A Sunny Morning’ take place?

Ans: In a retired corner of a park in Madrid, the action of the play ‘A Sunny Morning’ takes place.

 

21) What establishes peace between Dona Laura and Don Gonzalo?

Ans: A pinch of snuff establishes peace between Dona Laura and Don Gonzalo.

 

22) What right does Dona Laura claim to have to criticize Don Gonzalo?

Ans: Dona Laura claims to have a neighbour’s right to criticize Don Gonzalo.

 

23) Who was called ‘The Silver Maiden’ in A Sunny Morning?

Ans: Laura Liorente was called ‘The Silver Maiden’ in A Sunny Morning.

 

24) In the play, ‘the silver maiden’ refers to

a) Petra

b) Dona Laura

c) the ballet dancer.

Ans: b) Dona Laura.

 

25) Why did Don Gonzalo sit next to Laura in the park?

Ans: All the other benches were fully occupied. So, Dona Gonzalo sits next to Laura on the bench in the park.

 

26) Where, according to Gonzalo, did he meet Campoamor?

Ans: Gonzalo met Campoamor in Valencia, according to him.

 

27) Where did Gonzalo run off to with a ballet dancer?

Ans: Gonzalo ran off to Paris with a ballet dancer.

 

28) Whose name, according to Gonzalo, was his cousin whispering at the time of his death?

Ans: According to Gonzalo, Laura’s name was his cousin whispering at the time of his death.

 

29) Where do Don Gonzalo and Dona Laura meet after a long time?

Ans: Don Gonzalo and Dona Laura meet in a retired corner of a park after a long time.

 

30) What did Dona Laura use as a cane in ‘A Sunny Morning’?

Ans: Dona Laura used a parasol as a cane in ‘A Sunny Morning’.

 

31) Who accompanied Dona Laura when she came to the park in ‘A Sunny Morning’?

Ans: Petra, her maid accompanied Dona Laura when she came to the park in ‘A Sunny Morning’.

 

32) What right does Laura claim to have to criticize Gonzalo’s actions in ‘A Sunny Morning’?

Ans: Laura claims her right as a neighbor to criticize Gozalo’s actions in ‘A Sunny Morning’.

 

33) What could Gonzalo show as evidence to prove his skill at hunting in ‘A Sunny Morning’?

Ans: Gonzalo could show a wild boar’s head as evidence to prove his skill at hunting in ‘A Sunny Morning’.

 

34) What could Laura show as evidence to prove her skill at hunting in ‘A Sunny Morning’?

Ans: Laura could show a tiger’s skin in her boudoir, as evidence to prove her skill at hunting in ‘A Sunny Morning’.

 

35) When, according to Gonzalo, did he compose some verses in ‘A Sunny Morning’?

Ans: According to Gonzalo, he composed some verses in his youth in ‘A Sunny Morning’.

 

36) How old does Gonzalo say he was when he went to America the first time in ‘A Sunny Morning’?

Ans: Gonzalo said that the first time he went to America, when he was only six years old in ‘A Sunny Morning’.

 

37) Name the poet whom Gonzalo says, he first met in America in ‘A Sunny Morning’.

Ans: Gonzalo said that he first met Zorilla in America.

 

38) Where, according to Gonzalo, did he spend his early youth in ‘A Sunny Morning’?

Ans: Gonzalo spent his early youth in the city of Valencia.

 

39) Where, according to Laura, did she spend several seasons in ‘A Sunny Morning?

Ans: According to Laura, she spent several seasons in a villa called Maricela.

 

40) Who was called ‘The Silver Maiden’ in A Sunny Morning?

Ans: Laura Llorente was called ‘The Silver Maiden’.

 

Comprehension II

1) Describe the situations wherein Don Gonzalo and Dona Laura recognize each other as ‘the silver maiden’ and ‘the gallant young man’.

Ans: Dona Laura and Don Gonzalo become companions not long after getting a charge out of a pinch of snuff offered by Don Gonzalo. While Don Gonzalo is perusing resoundingly, he goes over a famous quotation. Unexpectedly, he reveals to Dona that it is from Campoamor. At that point Dona Laura communicates her compassion toward him for perusing with every one of those glasses. This prompts Don to brag about his ability to compose verses. At that point, he educates her regarding Espronceda, Zorilla, and Becquer. Dona ridicules him saying that he more likely than not gone with Columbus on one of his investigations.

Right now, Don Gonzalo reveals to her that he was likewise an incredible companion of Campoamor and he had met him in Valencia. At that point he adds that he was a local of Valencia. Dona Laura discloses to him that she had spent a few seasons in a villa called Maricela, which was not a long way from Valencia. The name Maricela surprises Don Gonzalo and he proceeds to reveal to her that he had seen the most excellent lady there and her name was Laura Llorente. Laura is surprised to hear her name referenced and they take a gander at one another eagerly. It is exactly as of now that they start to perceive one another.

 

2) What were the circumstances that led Gonzalo to flee Valencia?

Ans: The youthful Laura Llorente and youthful Gonzalo adored each other sincerely. Consistently while passing by riding a horse down the rose way under the window of Laura, Gonzalo used to throw up to her overhang a bunch of roses. Later in the early evening, while the heroic youngster was returning by a similar way, he would get the bundle of roses she would throw him. As days moved by, Laura's folks considered wedding her to a notable vendor in their territory. One evening, while Gonzalo was holding up under her window to hear her sing, the shipper came there suddenly and offended him.

This prompted a fight and later a duel. The duel went in general evening and at the crack of dawn the following morning the shipper got seriously injured in the duel. The vendor was a notable courteous fellow in Valencia. Since he had been gravely injured in the duel, Gonzalo got uncertain of unfortunate outcomes thus escaped Valencia and went to Seville and afterward to Madrid.

 

3) Did Laura and Gonzalo pine for each other after they were separated by circumstances? Who is more passionate? How do they react to each other now?

Ans: Not long after they were isolated by conditions the youthful sweethearts Laura and Gonzalo pined for one another. In the wake of tuning in to Gonzalo's record of how he had escaped Aravaca, at that point joined the military in Africa and had met a sublime demise in the war, Laura mumbles to herself that it is an abominable untruth. At that point Dona professes to identify with him saying he more likely than not been upset by the disaster. Accepting it as a solid point, Gonzalo professes to say that it was in reality a cataclysm, yet additionally attempts to communicate his disdain whining that on the opposite Laura had before long failed to remember Gonzalo and was pursuing butterflies in the nursery with no lament. Dona Laura fights saying 'no' uproariously and Gonzalo remarks that it is a lady's way. Dona Laura, so as not to be criticized that way, offers her form of the story.

She reveals to him that the silver lady anticipated the information on Gonzalo for a year. As she didn't get any letters from him, went to the ocean after dusk, composed his name on the sand, sat on a stone and was at long last cleared out to the ocean by the rising tide. Wear Gonzalo murmurs to himself that she was a more terrible liar than he was. The two of them transparently express their feelings toward one another. Dona mumbles to herself that she won't disclose to him that she got hitched two years after the fact. Wear Gonzalo mumbles to himself that he escaped with a ballet artist to Paris in a quarter of a year. From their discussion and from their responses to one another's in part composed story, we can presume that Laura is more enthusiastic.

 

4) What makes Dona Laura assume that Don Gonzalo is an ill-natured man?

Ans: Not long after entering the recreation center, Don Gonzalo searches for an empty seat. At the point when he finds that the seat on which he used to sit is involved by three clerics, Don Gonzalo gets disturbed and he communicates his irritation commenting that the ministers were sitting their time away as opposed to saying Mass in the congregation. At that point Juanito proposes that he could sit on the seat on which Dona Laura was sitting. However, Don Gonzalo discloses to him that he needs a seat to himself. At that point subsequent to communicating his resentment against the three clerics, he strolls towards the winged animals close to Dona Laura's seat, when she furiously asks him to a post. On hearing her notice cry, Don Gonzalo finds out if she expected to address him.

Then, when Dona discloses to him that he had frightened the feathered creatures off, he answers revealing to her that he couldn't care less about the fowls. At that point she reveals to him that she thought often about the feathered creatures without a doubt and consequently she was whining about his conduct. Wear Gonzalo attempts to scorn her platitude that it was a recreational area. Aiming to contend with him, Dona asks him for what valid reason then he was griping about the clerics taking his seat. Rather than giving her an appropriate, neighborly answer, he excuses her discourteously revealing to her that they had not met previously and he can't envision why she was venturing to address him. Normally, Dona who had tuned in to his remarks about the clerics and his answers to her questions accepts that he was an evil natured man.

 

5) Laura and Gonzalo build stories about themselves so that they can:

a) Fool each other.

b) Forget the past

c) Conceal their emotions.

Ans: a) fool each other.

 

Comprehension III

1) Trace how the irony is built in the play. Did you guess the character’s past even before they did so?

Ans: a) The term ‘irony’ means ‘hiding’ or camouflaging what really is the situation, not to trick but rather to accomplish extraordinary logical or creative impacts.

In the one-act play, 'A Sunny Morning' strangeness is astutely incorporated into the play. In the wake of getting comfortable her seat, Dona Laura sends away Petra, her maidservant, to visit with the watchman. Not long after that, she looks towards the trees at right and says "Here they come; they realize exactly when to anticipate me". Despite the fact that the old woman is alluding to the appearance of the feathered creatures, it additionally indicates the section of Don Gonzalo and Juanito, who are required for the activity to push ahead. Dona Laura tosses three small bunches of pieces for the pigeons to eat and not long after that we see Don Gonzalo and Juanito entering the scene.

b) We run over the following occurrence of incongruity when Don Gonzalo begins perusing resoundingly proclamations probably from Campoamor's work. Wear Gonzalo peruses so anyone might hear the accompanying:

“All love is sad but sad as it is, it is the best thing that we know”.

“Twenty years pass. He returns. And each, beholding the other, exclaims can it be that this is he? Heavens, is it she?” These lines can be taken as examples of ‘Dramatic irony’.

 

2) Why do Dona Laura and Don Gonzalo spin fictitious stories about themselves?

Ansr: When Don Gonzalo and Dona Laura understand that they are the standard, worn out, youthful admirers of Maricela who were isolated in life by destiny, they choose not to uncover their character since they gain from one another in what high regard they held each other before they withdrew, they additionally come to realize that the two of them had surrendered the other as lost for eternity. While Dona Laura reveals to herself that she had hitched another person subsequent to hanging tight for him for one year, Don Gonzalo discloses to himself that in the wake of escaping from Valencia, at that point Seville and Madrid, he had run off to Paris with a ballet artist in around a quarter of a year.

In this way, they devise invented stories to hide their personalities totally and to cause the other to accept that the individual was dead. Afterward, when they understand that they are alive, they would prefer not to break their shared pictures according to the next. In this way, Don Gonzalo discloses to himself that he won't uncover himself since he is twisted. He wishes that she would be wise to review the courageous horseman who passed every day underneath her window throwing blossoms. Essentially, Dona Laura discloses to herself that "I am excessively tragically changed. It is better he ought to recollect me as the dark looked at young lady throwing flowers as he passed among the roses in the garden."

 

3) Bring out the feelings of Laura and Gonzalo as they leave the park. Is it different from what they felt about each other at the beginning of the play?

Ans: At the point when the scene opens, we discover Dona Laura entering the recreation center, inclining upon the arm of her house keeper Petra. Before long, the old woman gets comfortable her typical seat in the recreation center. At that point the old woman sends away Petra to meet her beau, the gatekeeper. Afterward, when the pigeons show up, Dona Laura tosses three modest bunches of bread pieces. Then, we see Don Gonzalo coming in stalling and inclining upon Juanito's arm. Wear Gonzalo and Dona Laura have not seen each other previously and thus we can't think about one another's sentiments until they meet.

However, their feelings towards each other become evident only when Don Gonzalo walks towards Dona Laura’s bench, despite her warning call ‘Lookout’. Therefore, when she finds her pigeons being scared away, she is upset and tells him in a complaining tone that he has scared away the birds who were feeding on her crumbs. In reply, Don gives an arrogant reply which provokes her to make a personal comment, ‘Why do you complain that the priests have taken your bench?’ Once again, Don Gonzalo’s rude snubbing reply provokes Dona Laura to say that he is an ill-natured old man and comments that when people reach a certain age they should not become so fussy and cross. Later, Don comes and sits at the extreme end of Dona Laura’s bench and looks at her indignantly. After a few heated exchanges between them, Don Gonzalo mutters to himself ‘Senile old lady! She ought to be at home knitting and counting her beads’.

In any case, before the finish of the play, we locate an absolute change in their demeanor towards one another. Throughout their discussion, they find that they were 'darlings' once in their energetic days. Yet, neither of them is prepared to unveil their character. Nonetheless, the ill will that we observer toward the start of the play is no longer there when they are prepared to withdraw. Prior to withdrawing from one another, they officially say thanks to one another for having met. The two of them guarantee that they are going to the recreation center the following day. Laura sees Don getting the lilies dropped by her. The two of them wave goodbye. They leave the spot as companions.

 

4) What do you think would have happened if they had revealed their identity? Do you think they know who they are towards the end of the play?

Ans: When Don Gonzalo and Dona Laura understand that they are the standard, worn out youthful admirers of Maricela who were isolated in life by destiny, they make up invented stories and hide their character.

In the event that they had uncovered their personality, the two of them would have been completely stunned and would have blamed each other for beguiling the other. They realize that the two of them had held the other in high regard and the two of them had fallen profoundly enamored.

That is the reason, when they understand that they are the standard, worn out admirers of Maricela, they are stunned to acknowledge how much the two of them had changed. Dona Laura in the wake of tuning in to Don Gonzalo's commendation of her excellence as The Silver Maiden' presently feels embarrassed to admit that she is the old silver lady of Maricela in light of the fact that she also is unfortunately changed.

 

Also, Don Gonzalo realizes that he is peculiar thus wishes her to keep his picture as a chivalrous horseman who threw blossoms to her consistently.