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Question
Answer the following with reference to the story.
“Sure they had a teacher, but it wasn’t a regular teacher. It was a man.”
- Who does ‘they’ refer to?
- What does ‘regular’ mean here?
- What is it contrasted with?
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Solution
- They refer to the students who studied in the old kind of schools centuries
before the time the story is set in. - Here, ‘regular’ refers to the mechanical teachers that Tommy and Margie had.
- The mechanical teacher is contrasted with the teacher of the earlier times, who was a
human being.
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