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प्रश्न
Read the passage and name the following.
Language of the novel.
उत्तर
simple and pithy
APPEARS IN
संबंधित प्रश्न
Read the following passage and do the activities.
Social/Historical Context: Hemingway’s novel is based on real events and it also draws heavily on his own life. He had experience of fishing in the Cuban waters and like the old man he was also a fan of baseball. He worked for the Red Cross during the First World War and was injured by shrapnel when he was in Italy. Hemingway always talks about the need to struggle against defeat or death and how determination and endurance can help one to win in
this struggle. The old man is at the end of the novel very near death, but we know that the story of his suffering and loss will live on in the memories of the people of his village. Ultimately his story becomes one of triumph because the tales of his life will live on even after his death. The novel was published in 1952, when people were trying to recover from the mass destruction wrought by the two world wars, and this tale of endurance and ultimate triumph immediately struck a chord with the readers.
Writing Style: Hemingway’s language is simple and pithy. He mostly writes in short and straight-forward sentences and practises an extreme economy in his
use of words. This simplicity is deceptive and a reader can read his work again and again and find new layers of meaning every time.
(A1) Complete the following sentences.
(a) Hemingway had experience of ……………..
(b) He worked for …………………… during the First World War.
(c) ‘The Old Man And The Sea’ was published in ………………….
(d) After reading his work reader can find ……………………..
(A2) Complete the following web.
(A3) Find the synonyms for the following from the passage.
(i) The ability to do something difficult for a long time.
(ii) Formed or worked
(iii) Brief
(iv) Likely to make someone believe something that is not true.
(A4)
(1) The old man is at the end of the novel very near death, but we know that the story of his suffering and loss will live on in the memories of the people of his village. (Rewrite the sentence using ‘Though’.)
(2) During the First World War Hemingway was injured by shrapnel. (Begin the sentence with ‘Shrapnel ………….)
(A5) Write four to five sentences about your favourite writer.
Pair up with your partner and answer the following question :
Do you have a hero or a role model to look up to? Who is he/she?
Read the passage and name the following.
That which Hemingway was injured by, during the First World War.
Correct the following sentence using facts from the review.
Manolin’s parents insisted on his working with the same old fisherman.
Correct the following sentence using facts from the review.
The relationship between the old man and Manolin is coarse.
The review mentions the struggles of both the writer, Ernest Hemingway, and the old man. Fill the incidents of the struggle of Hemingway in table A and those of the old man in table B.
| Table A | Table B |
| Ernest Hemingway | Old man |
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Write a book review on any book of your choice with the help of the following points.
- Story line
- Social/Historical content
- Writing style
- My thought
You know the essential points required for a book review. Now form pairs and find essential points required for a play review and film review. You can take the help of your teacher, library, or the internet.
| Book Review | Play Review | Film Review |
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Classroom Library :
Ask all your classmates to donate a book to the class. In this way, everyone will have a book of his/her own to read. Read the book in a week or two. After reading it, exchange your book with your classmate. Keep exchanging and reading books for the whole year. Every fortnight gives the book review of the book that you have read recently in the form of a presentation.
Read the following passage carefully and complete the activities:
B1. State True or False: (02)
- On the eighty-fifth day, the old man succeeds in hooking a salmon with his bait.
- Mandolin was his apprentice.
- The old man hardly had any experience in fishing.
- During the First World War, the old man had worked with the Red Cross.
An old and experienced Cuban fisherman has a run of terrible bad luck and is unable to catch any fish for eighty-four days. His young and devoted apprentice, Manolin, has been forced by his parents to start working with another fisherman. The old man resolves to sail out farther than all the other fishermen and attempt to catch the really big fish. On the eighty-fifth day, he succeeds in hooking a marlin with his bait but the marlin is too strong for him and starts pulling the boat. ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ is the story of the old man’s struggle with the marlin and his later battle against sharks.
Social/Historical context:
Hemingway’s novel is based on real events and it also draws heavily on his own life. He had the experience of fishing in the Cuban waters and like the old man he was also a fan of baseball. He worked for the Red Cross during the First World War and was injured by shrapnel when he was in Italy. Hemingway always talks about the need to struggle against defeat or death and how determination and endurance can help one to win this struggle The old man is at the end of the novel very near death, but we know that the story of his suffering and loss will live on in the memories of the people of his village. Ultimately his story becomes one of triumph because the tales of his life will on even after his death.
B2. Complete the following bubbles with the help of the passage: (02)
B3. Make meaningful sentences of your own using the below-given words or phrases: (02)
- devoted
- to be forced by.
B4. Do as directed: (02)
- He is unable to catch any fish for eighty-four days.
(Pick the infinitive in the sentence) - Hemingway always talks about the need to struggle against defeat or death.
(Rewrite the sentence as a Negative sentence, without changing its meaning)
B5. Would you prefer to read a book or see a film based on the book? Give reasons for your answer: (02)
