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प्रश्न
Did Mrs. Packletide achieve her heart’s desire? Give reasons for your answer.
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उत्तर
Yes, for the most part. Mrs. Packletide got the trophy and attention she wanted, but it cost her a lot of money and was not honest.
She ended up with a dead tiger and the press photos she had hoped for. The villagers, eager for the thousand-rupee payment, gladly believed the lie that she had killed the tiger; in reality, the tiger died of a heart attack after the rifle report. She planned the lunch on Curzon Street around a tiger skin as the centrepiece and even made Loona a tiger-claw brooch to give her. Both the rug/photos and the brooch were meant to be a response to Loona’s recent successes. The fact that Loona refused to look at illustrated papers for weeks and sent a cool, repressed thank-you letter for the brooch shows that Mrs. Packletide’s plan did have the social effect she wanted. In a social sense, she got what she wanted because she beat Loona in public, but the victory was tainted (achieved through a cover-up), costly, and not particularly satisfying.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Read these lines and guess the answers to the questions given below.
It was Mrs. Packletide's pleasure and intention that she should shoot a tiger …. The
compelling motive ….was the fact that Loona Bimberton had recently …… personally
procured tiger-skin and a heavy harvest of Press photographs could successfully
counter that sort of thing.
a) Why did Mrs. Packletide want to kill a tiger?
b) What does it tell you about her?
c) What is the tone of the storywriter?
d) Do you think she was successful in her mission?
e) What do you think the story is all about?
Answer the following question in your own words :
Why did Mrs. Packletide wish to kill a tiger ?
Who was Miss Mebbin? Was she really devoted to Mrs. Packletide? How did she behave during the tiger shooting?
Mrs. Packletide was a good shot. Discuss.
What comment did Miss Mebbin make after Mrs Packletide fired the shot? Why
did Miss Mebbin make this comment? How did Mrs Packletide react to this
comment?
“The incidental expenses are so heavy,” she confides to inquiring friends. Who is the speaker? What is she referring to here?
A person who is vain is full of self importance and can only think of himself/herself and can go to great lengths to prove his/her superiority. Do you think Mrs Packletide is vain? Give reasons in support of your answer.
How does the writer create humour in this story?
Choose extracts from the story that illustrate the character of the people listed in
the table given below. There are some words given to help you. You may add
words of your own. One has been done as an example:
vain jealous competitive shrewd manipulative stingy materialistic spiteful
| Character | Extract from the story | What this tells us about the character |
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Mrs. Packletide |
(i) The compelling motive for her sudden deviation towards the footsteps of Nimrod was the fact that Loona Bimberton had recently been carried eleven miles in an aeroplane by an Algerian aviator, and talked of nothing else; only a personally procured tiger-skin and a heavy harvest of Press photographs could successfully counter that sort of thing | Competitive |
| (ii) Mrs. Packletide had offered a thousand rupees for the opportunity of shooting a tiger without over-much risk or exertion, |
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| (iii) Mrs. Packletide faced the cameras with a light heart, and her pictured fame reached from the pages of the Texas Weekly Snapshot to the illustrated Monday supplement of the Novoe Vremya. |
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| Louisa Mebbin | (i) "If it's an old tiger I think you ought to get it cheaper. A thousand rupees is a lot of money." | |
| (ii) Louisa Mebbin adopted a protective elder-sister attitude towards money in general, irrespective of nationality or denomination |
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| (iii) "How amused every one would be if they knew what really happened," said Louisa Mebbin a few days after the ball. |
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| (iv) Louisa Mebbin's pretty week-end cottage, christened by her "Les Fauves," and gay in summer-time with its garden borders of tiger-lilies, is the wonder and admiration of her friends |
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| Loona Bimberton | (i) As for Loona Bimberton, she refused to look at an illustrated paper for weeks, and her letter of thanks for the gift of a tiger-claw brooch was a model of repressed emotions |
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| (ii) There are limits beyond which repressed emotions become dangerous. |
Rewrite the one in ordinary prose so that the meaning is retained.
It was Mrs. Packletide's pleasure and intention that she should shoot a tiger.
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Rewrite the one in ordinary prose so that the meaning is retained.
Evidently the wrong animal had been hit, and the beast of prey had succumbed to
heart-failure, caused by the sudden report of the rifle, accelerated by senile decay.
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Rewrite the one in ordinary prose so that the meaning is retained.
As for Loona Bimberton, she refused to look at an illustrated paper for weeks, and
her letter of thanks for the gift of a tiger-claw brooch was a model of repressed
emotions.
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The Maasai warriors chase a lion with rattle bells to
The Maasai use three parts of the lion. They are
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