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PAWAR PUBLIC SCHOOL, CHANDIVALI SECOND TERM (2021-22)
SUBJECT - LITERATURE IN ENGLISH PAPER 2 GRADE -8 AFTER TWENTY YEARS OCTOBER,2021
This paper consists of 9 printed sides
PART A- THEME ANALYSIS
PART B - INTRODUCTION AND MODEL READING
PART C- EXPLANATION
PART D- COMPREHENSION
Part A About the Autor. O Henry
Henry (1862-1910) was originally born William Sydney Porter in Greensboro,
North Carolina. As a young man, he moved to Austin, Texas where he worked as
a bank teller. ...
Part B- Introduction and Model Reading
Let us ponder (1)
Q1) Answer the following questions
1) What time does the story begin?
2) Where was the man from the west leaning?
Q2) Reference to context
I’m just waiting for a friend. It’s an appointment made twenty years ago. Sounds a
little funny to you, doesn’t it?
1) Who said these words and to whom?
2) Why would it sound funny to the listener?
3) What happened twenty years ago?
Let us ponder (2)
Reference to context
It takes the West to put a razor edge on him.
1) Who said these words and to whom?
2) Who does ‘him’ refer to here?
3) According to you how Bob has become razor-sharp?
Part –C Explanation https://youtu.be/9A3DBlpPMio The story opens with a policeman on night patrol in the New York city. As he
walks his beat, he checks locks for safety. He spots a man standing in a doorway.
However, the man reassures the officer that he was not any suspicious character.
Rather, he was waiting for a friend with whom he has made an appointment twenty
years ago to meet at the same spot. He lights a cigar and continues to tell the
lawman about his friend, Jimmy Wells, who was sure to be there on time as he had
always been a sincere friend. The policeman departs and after a few minutes a man
arrives who addresses him as ‘Bob’ and the two men happily greet each other. But,
Bob suddenly realizes that the man didn’t look like his friend at all. He accepts his
friend’s reply that he’d grown taller and changed a bit since they last met. As they
walk further the bright lights of the drug store reveals that the man was not his
friend but he could no longer escape arrest from the plain clothes man posing as
Jimmy. Before taking him into custody, the man hands over a note from his friend,
addressed to Bob. Actually, the man he had unknowingly met earlier was his
friend, Jimmy. Jimmy had written in the note that he recognized Bob’s face as the
fugitive from Chicago but didn’t have the heart to arrest his dear friend himself.
Yet his unwavering obligation to law and his sense of responsibility made him get
‘Silky Bob’, the diamond smuggler arrested so as to prove his loyalty to the code
of his profession.
Word study On the beat: the round taken by the policeman while he is on watch. To beat a hasty retreat: to back away quickly in order to avoid
something unpleasant. To beat around the bush: to approach a subject in an indirect way.
To beat one’s brain: to think very hard about something for a long time. Beat it into one’s head: to repeat till one understands or remember it. To beat the clock: to finish a task or a race before a particular time.
Part D – Comprehension
Answer the following
1) How can you say that Jimmy Wells was sharp and clever?
2) What does the note tell you about Jimmy and Bob?
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