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Read the Extract Given Below and Answer the Question that Follow. Why Might the Old Man Need Good Luck at the End of the Story?

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प्रश्न

“If you are rested I would go,” I urged. “Get up and try to walk now.”
“Thank you,” he said and got to his feet, swayed from side to side and then sat down backwards in the dust.
“I was taking care of animals,” he said dully, but no longer to me. “I was only taking care of animals.”
There was nothing to do about him. It was Easter Sunday and the Fascists were advancing toward the Ebro. It was a grey overcast day with a low ceiling so their planes were not up. That and the fact that cats know how to look after themselves was all the good luck that the old man would ever have.

Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.

Why might the old man need good luck at the end of the story?

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उत्तर

The old man needs good luck at the end of the story because he is not moving away from the war zone and could die from artillery.

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पाठ 2.02: Old Man at the Bridge - Passage 5

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