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प्रश्न
Answer the following with reference to the story.
“I wouldn’t throw it away.”
- Who says these words?
- What does ‘it’ refer to?
- What is it being compared with by the speaker?
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उत्तर
- Tommy said these words.
- ‘It’ refers to the television screen, on which you could read over a million books
- Tommy is comparing the television screen to the real books in earlier times in which
words were printed on paper. He thought that after reading such books, one would have to
throw them away. However, he would never have to throw away his telebooks.
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