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प्रश्न
What were the events that led to his confused state of mind?
उत्तर
Dr. Margolin started to realize that something is wrong when he noticed that his wallet was missing but wasn’t sure how he could have lost it. He also couldn’t understand the fact that Raizel looked too young and he thought that maybe she was her daughter, trying to mock him.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
What do you understand of Dr. Margolin’s past? How does it affect his present life?
What was Dr. Margolin’s attitude towards his profession?
What is Dr. Margolin’s view of the kind of life the American Jewish community leads?
What were the personality traits that endeared Dr. Margolin to others in his community?
Why do you think Dr. Margolin had the curious experience at the wedding hall?
Was the encounter with Raizel an illusion or was the carousing at the wedding hall illusory? Was Dr. Margolin the victim of the accident and was his astral body hovering in the world of twilight?
Discuss in small groups
Fiction often deals with human consciousness, rather than with the reality of existence.
Discuss in small groups
The ways in which survivors of holocausts deal with life.
Surrealism was an artistic and literary movement in France between the two World Wars. Its basic idea is that the automatic, illogical, and uncontrolled associations of the mind represent a higher reality than the world of practical life and ordinary literature. Do you think this story could be loosely classified as surrealistic? What elements in this story would support the idea?
Comment on the technique used by the author to convey the gruesome realities of the war and its devastating effect on the psyche of human beings through an intensely personal experience.
Who were the Senciminers?
Why did Dr. Margolin not particularly want his wife to accompany him to the wedding?
What is the Hippocratic oath?
What topic does the merry banter at the wedding invariably lead to?
Who was the woman that Dr. Margolin suddenly encountered at the wedding?
| He was tall, slim, blond, blue eyed. His hair was thinning, had turned somewhat grey, but he managed to disguise these signs of age. He stooped a little, but in company was quick to straighten up. Years ago in Germany he had worn a monocle…” |
- Who does ‘he’ refer to?
- What signs of age were evident to him?
- ‘But in company was quick to straighten up….’ What does this phrase reflect about ‘him’?
- Pick out the word from the extract which means to conceal one’s appearance by using wigs/glasses etc.
- straighten
- disguise
- monocle
- stopped
- What had happened to his uncle?
- Give a brief description of him.
What were the thoughts racing in Dr. Margolin’s mind, when he sat at the back of a taxi?
Answer the following questions in 30-40 words.
Why did Dr. Margolin not want to attend the wedding at Brownsville?
