A. 1. b.
2. When the dacoits attack, Mother begs the speaker to stay away from them. During the fight, Mother sits crouched in the palanquin, saying her prayers.
3. When they see the dacoits coming, the palanquin bearers hide in the bushes.
4. When dacoits attacked, the speaker on his horse gallops towards them and they fight fiercely.
5. After the fight, Mother is thankful that her son is still alive. She hugs and kisses the speaker and tells him how grateful she is to him and that she doesn't know what she would have done without him. She is very proud of her son.
6. The villagers are amzed and say that it was lucky that the speaker was with his mother.
B. 1. a. The speaker's journey with his mother, the dacoits' attack and the speaker's brave actions - all these would be like a story.
b. Such a story would be a part of a book about adventure.
c. The speaker's real life is nothing like the story. In real life, he is quite delicate.
2. a The speaker's brother says these words.
b. He thought that the speaker was delicate.
c. 'He' or the speaker wants to prove his brother wrong by being a hero and saving his mother from danger.
C. 1 'You clutch my hand and say, /'Dear boy, for heaven's sake, keep away from them.' I know you are thinking, sitting all by yourself,/ that your boy must be dead by this time.'
2. The speaker dreams of being a hero because he wants to impress his mother by rescuing her. He wants her to be proud of him. We know this because his fantasy is about saving his mother's life and when he saves her, she says in gratitude,'I don't know what I should do if I hadn't my boy to escort me. "The speaker has also read many books about adventure and this probably has influenced him and he wants to have an adventure himself. We can see this in the line, 'It would be like a story in a book.' The speaker would probably not be able to do such a thing in real file. We can see this in the line, 'A thousand useless things happen day after day, and why couldn't such a thing come true by chance ? In real life, the speaker is probably a little delicate. We can tell this from the speaker's brother's words, " Is it possible? I always thought he was so delicate!"
3. Free Response; Suggested answer- The hero is a suitable title for the poem because that is what the speaker wants to be. The poem is about a fantasy the speaker has about being brave in the face of danger and rescuing his mother. The name of this fantasy is The Hero. Alternative Title: Free Response
D. 1. 'a strange and dangerous country'; 'It is evening and the sun goes down'; The waste of Joradighi lies wan and grey before us.'; The land is desolate and barren.'; The meadow is prickly with spiky grass and through it runs a narrow broken path. There are no cattle to be seen in the wide field'; It grows dark and dim on the land and sky.'
2. Free Response;
(a) a sad event -grey skies, mild rain, dark room
(b) a boring day- hot summer day, no current in the house, people sitting around yawning and waving fans to keep themselves cool.
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