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Read the poem and complete the table showing the qualities of the father and mother giving sufficient evidence from the poem.

Qualities
Father Mother
   
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उत्तर

Qualities

Father

Mother

Sceptic, rationalist loving Desperate

Patient, long-suffering brave, self-sacrificing Selfless.

Lines as evidence: My father sceptic, rationalist,
Trying every curse and
blessing Powder, mixture, herb, and hybrid He even poured a little
paraffin Upon the bitten toe and put a match to it.
I watched the holy man
perform his rites to tame the poison with an incantation

Lines as evidence: My mother twisted through and through, groaning on a mat.
My mother only said Thank God the scorpion picked on me and spared my children.

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Night of the Scorpion
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अध्याय 3.1: Night of the Scorpion - English Workshop [पृष्ठ १०५]

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बालभारती English Kumarbharati [English] Standard 10 Maharashtra State Board
अध्याय 3.1 Night of the Scorpion
English Workshop | Q 5 | पृष्ठ १०५

संबंधित प्रश्न

Brainstorm what you know about Scorpions. Use the points given below.


Complete the following table.

Scorpion
Many images of the scorpion contrast in the opening lines of the poem. Find examples of each and add them to the columns below.
Timid Dangerous

(1) hides _________

(2) ___________ back

(i) Diabolic ____________

(ii) ____________


Complete the following table.

Imagery

Look at the description of the village peasants.
What does the imagery suggest about them?
The Images What images suggest
They came like swarms of flies.  
They buzzed the name of God.  
They threw giant scorpion shadows on the mud-baked walls.  
They clicked their tongues.  

Choose the correct alternative.

The poet seems to see the villagers as impractical and almost irritating which suggests that ________________.


Choose the correct alternative.

Using the first person gives the feeling that it is told from ______________.


Choose the correct alternative.

‘The scorpion picked on me. And spared my children’ depicts ____________.


Choose the correct alternative.

The click of tongues reflects their __________ to the predicament.


From the poem provide evidence for the following:

Stages Evidence (lines from the poem)
(a) the attempts by the peasants to help alleviate the mother’s pain.  
(b) the action of these same peasants to kill the scorpion  
(c) the reaction of the rational father.  
(d) the various superstitions versus the ‘scientific’  
(e) evil versus good.  

Prepare a Presentation (on paper or on a PC) as a piece of reference to other students. Make use of the following points.


Read the following extract and complete the given activities:

A1. From the following extract of the poem provide evidence that it set in a rural background:

Evidence: 

  1. ______
  2. ______

With candles and with lanterns
throwing giant scorpion shadows
on the mud-baked walls
they searched for him; he was not found.
they clicked their tongues.
With every movement that the scorpion made his poison
moved in Mother’s blood, they said.

May he sit still, they said
May the sins of your previous birth
be burned away tonight, they said.
May your suffering decrease
the misfortunes of your next birth, they said.
May the sum of all evil
balanced in this unreal world
against the sum of good
become diminished by your pain.

A2. How did the peasants console the poet’s mother? (02)

A3. Pick out an example of Antithesis from the extract: (01)


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