Brainstorming (A2) | Q 8 | Page 10
The astrologer wins/gets the sympathy of criticism of the reader in the end. Express your opinion with the support of the main story.
Solution:
The story portrays the astrologer as a false fortune teller with no real knowledge of his ‘profession’. He attracts clients by his street-smart ways and also manages to convince them by sweet-talking to them. Moreover, he is revealed to the reader as a near-murderer towards the end of the story. However, despite all this, it’s difficult to judge the astrologer as a negative character and he rather manages to win the sympathy of the reader’s criticism. This is so because firstly, he has to make a living in the new city after he fled his village for fear of being caught. So, in the absence of any other skill, he must have had to adopt astrology as a livelihood under distress and not by choice. Secondly, he had to trick the stranger into believing that the man whom he was looking out for had already died in an accident, so as to protect his own life. Again, he can’t be judged badly on this count because he couldn’t have afforded to lose his own life at the hands of the stranger by revealing him his true identity. Since he had his wife and child to support too, it made him lie to the stranger in order to keep himself out of harm’s way.
English Yuvakbharati Latest Syllabus Solution.
SECTION ONE (Prose)
Chapter 1.1: An Astrologer’s Day
Chapter 1.2: On Saying “Please”
Chapter 1.3: The Cop and the Anthem
Chapter 1.4: Big Data-Big Insights
Chapter 1.5: The New Dress
Chapter 1.6: Into the Wild
Chapter 1.7: Why we Travel
Chapter 1.8: Voyaging Towards Excellence
SECTION TWO (Poetry)
Chapter 2.1: Song of the Open Road
Chapter 2.2: Indian Weavers
Chapter 2.3: The Inchcape Rock
Chapter 2.4: Have you Earned your Tomorrow
Chapter 2.5: Father Returning Home
Chapter 2.6: Money
Chapter 2.7: She Walks in Beauty
Chapter 2.8: Small Towns and Rivers
SECTION THREE (Writing Skills)
Chapter 3.1: Summary Writing
Chapter 3.2: Do Schools Really Kill Creativity? (Mind-Mapping)
Chapter 3.3: Note–Making
Chapter 3.4: Statement of Purpose
Chapter 3.5: Drafting a Virtual Message
Chapter 3.6: Group Discussion
SECTION FOUR (Genre-Drama)
Chapter 4: History of Novel
Chapter 4: To Sir, with Love
Chapter 4: Around the World in Eighty Days
Chapter 4: The Sign of Four
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