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प्रश्न
Work in groups of four. Discuss how the story would have been different if.
Pongo had arrived on the scene before the last orange was eaten.
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उत्तर
The narrator was got red-handed when he came out from the docks. As his apron string was broken, the policeman, Pongo could find out his bulging pockets. The seventeen oranges in his pockets. Pongo caught him for his theft and locked him in a cabin. He kept the narrator in the cabin, he went out to bring another policeman to be a witness to the case.
The narrator was fear–stricken. A voice from the narrator’s head told him to eat away all the oranges. It forced him to eat the seeds and the peels. The narrator had to eat them to destroy the evidence. He ate the oranges quickly. But only one orange was left. At that time, the policemen had come near the cabin.
The narrator heard the sound of their arrival. They opened the cabin and found only one orange left on the table. They understood the narrator’s attempt to destroy the evidence. They seized the last orange and warned him of his criminal act of destroying the evidence. Both of them decided to produce the narrator before the court to get him punished, thereby teaching a lesson to others.
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