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Karnataka 1st PUC English Textbook Answers Reflections Chapter 4 Oru Manushyan
Oru Manushyan Comprehension I:
Question 1.
How far was the big city from the narrator’s home-town?
Answer:
It was some thousand five hundred miles from home.
Question 2.
Where did the narrator stay in the big city?
Answer:
The narrator stayed in the city in a very small, dingy room on a dirty street.
Question 3.
For money, people would do anything, even ………….
Answer:
commit murder.
Question 4.
What was the narrator doing to earn a living?
Answer:
The narrator was teaching English to some migrant labourers from nine-thirty till eleven in the night.
Question 5
was considered great education there.
(a) Learning English
(b) Learning to write an address in English
(c) Writing addresses at the post – office.
Answer:
(b) Learning to write an address in English
Question 6.
What reason did the narrator give for sleeping all day and having food in the evening?
Answer:
To save the expense of drinking my morning tea or eating the noon meal, the narrator was sleeping all day and wake up at four in the evening.
Question 7.
How much money did the narrator have in his pocket as his life’s savings?
Answer:
The narrator had fourteen rupees in his pocket as his life’s savings.
Question 8.
The man who came forward to pay the narrator’s bill was
(a) a man with a red turban.
(b) a person dressed in a suit.
(c) a money lender.
Answer:
(a) a man with a red turban.
Oru Manushyan Comprehension II:
Question 1.
Describe the people and the place where the incident took place.
Answer:
The people of the city had never been known for the quality of mercy. They were cruel people. Murder, robbery, pick-pocketing, these were daily occurrences. By tradition the people were professional soldiers.
Some of them went to distant places and lent out money on interest. Many others served as watchmen in banks, mills and large commercial establishments in big cities. Money was highly valued by them. For money they would do anything, even commit murder. It was quite a big city in the valley of a mountain, some thousand five hundred miles from home.
Question 2.
What was the routine of the narrator in the city?
Answer:
The narrator carried on a profession there in the city. He was teaching English to some migrant labourers from nine-thirty till eleven in the night. He taught them to write address in English. Learning to write an address in English was considered great education there. He must have seen people who write addresses at the post office.
They were paid anything between one anna and 42 four annas for writing an address. In those days he would sleep all day and wake up at four in the evening. This was to save the expense of drinking my morning tea or eating the noon meal.
Question 3.
Give an account of the embarrassing experience of the narrator at the restaurant.
Answer:
One day the narrator dressed up in a suit. He had a wallet in his coat pocket. He had fourteen rupees in it for his life’s savings at the time. He entered a crowded restaurant. He ate a full meal consisting of chapattis and meat curry.
He drank tea as well. The bill came to eleven annas. He put his hand in his coat pocket to pay it. He was embarrassed that his wallet was not there. Someone has picked his pocket and taken away his wallet.
Question 4.
A stranger saved the day for the narrator. How?
Answer:
As the narrator lost his money, he had no hope to escape from the restaurant. At last he heard a voice saying, He should pay the money. There stood a fair- complexioned man , six foot tall, with a red turban and white trousers. He sported a handle -bar moustache and had blue eyes.He paid eleven annas.
Oru Manushyan Comprehension III:
Question 1.
Does this story talk about transformation in a person? Discuss.
Answer:
The narrator had no definite plans and goal for his life. He was wandering around far away from home. The great change in the life of the narrator was taken place was that one day the narrator went to a big city in the valley of a mountain, some one thousand five hundred miles from home. The inhabitants of which had never been known for the quality of mercy.
He stayed in that city in a very small, dingy room on a dirty street. He did teaching the migrant labourers from nine-thirty till eleven in the night there. Before he had no job then he is very 7 busy in teaching the migrant to write address.
The people were paid anything between one anna and four annas for writing an address. The narrator had the good job to give education. This is a good transformation in his life specially.
Question 2.
Do you think the restaurant keeper was over reacting when the narrator could not pay the bill? If so, what accounts for his behavior?
Answer:
The restaurant keeper should be funny. He ridiculed the narrator in front of the customers. About fifty people doubted along with the restaurant keeper that he must have something on underneath. His behaviour is completely embarrassing.
Vocabulary
Work in pairs and find the synonym to the words given below. Refer to a Thesaurus if necessary.
Choose the word that is opposite in meaning to the word in capital letters.
Answer:
1 – a, 2 – b, 3 – c, 4 – b, 5 – b,6 -a, 7-b, 8-c
Use the suitable prefixes to form antonyms, (il, dis, un, im, mis, in)
Healthy – unhealthy
Mobile – immobile!
Please – displease
Prove – disprove
Logical – illogical
ConceptIon – misconception
Orthodox – unorthodox
Sane – insane
Perfect – imperfect
Provide antonyms for the following words from the lesson. Avoid using affixes.
Rescue – abando&
Remember – forget
Vague – clear
Madness – sanity
Inhabitant – uninhabitant
Distant – near
Lend – borrow
Dirty – clean
Expensive – cheap
Crowded – uncrowried
Quiet – rouse
Forward – backward
Laugh – cri
Open – close
Oru Manushyan Additional Question and Answer
I. Answer the following questions:
Question 1.
What type of people from the city?
Answer:
The people were cruel people.
Question 2.
By tradition what was the profession of the people?
Answer:
By tradition the people were professional soldiers.
Question 3.
What work did the narrator do in the new city?
Answer:
The narrator was teaching English to some migrant labourers from nine-thirty till eleven in the night. He taught them to write addresses in English.
Question 4.
What was the bill in the restaurant?
The bill came to eleven annas.
Question 5.
How was the stranger appeared?
Answer:
The stranger was very fair-complexioned, six foot tall, with a red turban and white trousers. He sported a handle-bar moustache and had blue eyes.
Question 6.
What was the name of the stranger, he said? What did the narrator say for it?
Answer:
The stranger said that he had no name. Then the narrator replied that his name must be ‘Mercy’.
Question 7.
At the end of the poem what did the narrator understand about the stranger?
Answer:
The stranger took out from his various pockets about five wallets. Among them was the narrator’s. Thus he came to know that he is a thief.
II.
Question 1.
I have no name, who said this?
(a) The narrator
(b) The restaurant keeper
(c) The owner.
Answer:
(a) The narrator
Question 2.
The narrator went with the stranger because
(a) He is familiar to the narrator
(b) He gave back the narrator’s wallet
(c) He paid the money for the bill.
Answer:
(c) He paid, the money for the bill.
Question 3.
Who many people agreed with the restaurant keeper?
(a) Twenty people
(b) Hundred people
(c) Thirty people.
Answer:
(c) Thirty people.
Oru Manushyan Summary in English
The story ‘around a Medicinal creeper’ written by Poornachandra Tejaswi speaks about the medicinal creeper of the ancient time. It took twenty years to know the fact of the plant. Once they needed some creeper to erecting a bamboo frame, so they sent Sannappa to get some creepers from the forest. He brought a, whole bundle, among them there was a medicinal Creeper. So Mara scolded Sanna for bringing the unwanted creeper.
Sanna replied that it was a medicinal creeper .There was plenty of it in the forest. Mara eagerly went out to the forest with Sanna. When Sanna showed the plant, Mara caught hold of one of the tendrils and tied it to a nearby tree.
Sanna asked why he did so. Mara said that it had been cursed by a sage. The curse was that when someone needed that plant, they would not find it. So when you want it the search for it. That is why, when you find it you must immediately tie to a nearby plant so that it will be lying there, explained Mara.
One day Mara had gone to the forest to bring some bamboo shoots home. With his hands thrust through the bamboo cane when he was cutting the shoot, he accidentally cut his hand. The sharp sickle had apparently cut an artery and it started bleeding copiously in spurts. Someone brought some leaf, pressed it against the wound and bandaged it with a cloth torn from one of their lungis.
When Mara went for the proper treatment, the white man opened the bandage and removed the leaf. It’s a surprise that there was no blood, no wound-in fact no sign of any wound having been there.
There is another story the narrator tells is that Krishna who is the erstwhile farmhand, had piles struggled a lot seriously. Krishna took the root of the medicinal root, mixed it with milk and drank the medicine for five days. He was completely cured.
One of the problems of why these native medicinal methods are not grown up is that the native doctors believe that if they told others about their medicines, the medicines would lose their potency. Due to this superstition, India’s native medicinal systems are on the verge of extinction.
Oru Manushyan Summary in Kannada
Glossary:
0m Manu shyan : a human being
Predicament (n) : unpleasant dangerous situation.
To befall (y) : to happen
Dingy (adj) :dirty looking, dull
Migrant (n) : a worker who moves from Place to place to do seasonal work
Chores (n) : minor work at home
Wallet (n) : purse
Gouge out : to cut or force something out roughly or brutally
Guffaw (n) : a loud laugh
Stark naked (adj): completely naked
To save the day (idiom) : to prevent failure or defeat