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Give reasons for the following.
Satyajit not disclosing his present financial status to his uncle.
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Describe the cycle of events in Satyajit's life that brought him back to where he began.
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It is difficult to adjust to a fall from glory.
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'Failure had a tempo faster than success.'
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Satyajit should have revealed his predicament to his uncle.
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The author's comment on crime and punishment.
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How is Satyajit's financial crash introduced to the reader?
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Comment on the way in which the story is narrated from Satyajit's perspective.
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How has the author used the episode of the bank theft to comment on Satyajit's success in his career?
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How do these lines capture the essence of the story:
'Glory was all overlaid with dark shame. Glory was dead.'
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Considering that this is an excerpt from a lecture, how does the commentary provided by the speaker string the arguments together?
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Although the author was not a vindictive man he was very happy to see the twenty-one stone lady
who had impoverished him twenty years ago, and says he had finally had his revenge. What makes him say this?
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The Cloud ‘fuses together a creative myth, a scientific monograph, and a gay picaresque tale of cloud adventure': explain.
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There are quite a few places where the author uses the expressions 'my heart sank', 'panic seized' etc. What was the reason for this?
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Locate instances of irony in the story.
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How do the words in bold, in the lines below, illustrate the poet’s ability to convey criticism cryptically?
Our meddling intellect
Misshapes the beauteous forms of things:
We murder to dissect.
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Explain the contradiction in the similies, ‘Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb’.
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The author is a humorist
a. How does the story reflect his sense of humour?
b. What makes his lady friend remark - 'You are quite a humorist'?
c. Give instances of the author's ability to laugh at himself.
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Explain the metaphor in the line: ‘Poets are the mirrors of gigantic shadows that futurity casts on the present’.
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People with foibles are often not conscious of them.
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