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प्रश्न
“These two children had given me a profound lesson …” Elucidate.
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उत्तर
The author had self-pity and was cursing the accident that had caused him and his wife great pain and inconveniences in the daily routine. But the two little boys, one almost scarred to death with both eyes gone and the other with an amputated arm and no hope of recovery were together celebrating the joy of being alive. They minded the business of living ignoring pain, surgery, and the sickly environment. Dr. Barnard learned the lesson from the children that the business of living is joy in the real sense of the word. It was not just something for pleasure, amusement, or recreation. The business of living in the celebration of being alive.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Who did the narrator meet at the outskirts of Verona?
Were the boys saving money to go to the States? How do you know?
Who took the author to the cubicle?
What was the driving force that made the boys do various jobs?
What is the second golden rule in the preparation of tea?
Why should tea be directly added to the pot?
What should be poured into the cup first–tea or milk?
Whom does the author call ‘misguided people’? What is his advice to them?
Discuss how the essay reveals the factual points and the author’s personal opinions on the preparation of tea.
How did the hospitalization of Dr. Barnard and his wife affect their routine?
Why did the choice of roles prove to be easy for them?
What happened in the grand finale?
What was the profound lesson that Dr. Barnard learnt from the boys?
Why does Dr. Barnard describe the blind boy as a ‘walking horror’?
Describe the ‘Grand Prix’ at Cape Town’s Red Cross Children’s Hospital.
Name an equipment and a tool carried by the climbers during their expedition.
What did Tenzing and Edmund Hillary gift to the Gods of lofty Summit? How did they do it?
Describe the stool that the narrator’s family had.
Why did the family find it difficult to make a chair?
What was grandmother’s suggestion of wood? Why?
When did the children get over the fear of sitting on the chair?
Why did Maamanaar hand over the chair to the villagers to retain it?
Write character sketches of Maamanaar and Pedanna.
How can we sweeten our life’s journey?
What does the traffic policeman symbolize?
How would ‘liberty’ cause universal chaos?
Civilization can only exist when the public collectively accepts constraints on its freedom of action – Explain.
Para 15
For a few moments, I lay regaining
my breath, and for the first time really
felt the fierce determination that nothing
now could stop us from reaching the top. I took
a firm stance on the ledge and signaled
to Tenzing to come on up. As I heaved
hard on the rope, Tenzing wriggled his
way up the crack, and finally collapsed at
the top like a giant fish when it has just
been hauled from the sea after a terrible
struggle.
Para 16
The ridge continued as before:
giant cornices on the right; steep rock
sloped on the left. The ridge curved away
to the right and we have no idea where the
top was. As I cut around the back of one
hump, another higher one would swing
into view. Time was passing and the ridge
seemed never-ending.
Para 17
Our original zest had now quite
gone, and it was turning more into a grim
struggle. I then realized that the ridge
ahead, instead of rising, now dropped
sharply away. I looked upwards to see a
narrow snow ridge running up to a snowy
summit. A few more whacks of the ice-ax
in the firm snow and we stood on top.
The ridge had taken us two and half hours, but it seemed like lifetime. Why? (Para 15 to 17)
