Ans: The two children Suzanne and Jonathon, who were aged seven and six respectively, showed tremendous courage and stoicism during the epic struggle, put up by their parents and the crewmen to keep the ship from sinking. Suzanne had been injured badly when the wave had hit the ship. Her head had swollen alarmingly. She had two very big enormous black eyes and she had also showed to her parents a deep cut on her arm. When asked why she had not complained about her injuries earlier she replied that she had not wanted to worry her parents when they were trying to save them all. On January 5th when the condition of the ship was very bad, the author went in to comfort the children and his son, Jonathon, asked him if they were going to die. When he was assured that they would all survive somehow he told his father that they were not afraid of dying if they could all be together. That very evening the badly injured Suzanne had patience and power enough even to draw caricatures of her parents with the words, “Here are some funny people. Did they make you laugh?” She had written a message also inside which said that she had loved them both and that card was meant to say thanks to his father and hope for the best. Such extraordinary patience, courage and tolerance shown by the small children on the face of an enormously dangerous situation gave courage and inspiration to his parents to fight hard for survival.

In the poem, the poet asks the soft-falling shower, ‘Who are you?’ to which she replies that she is the poem of earth. It is a strange thing for the rain to reply to the poet.  The rain told the poet that she cannot be touched as she rises in the form of water vapour in the sky from the land and the bottomless sea. It changes its shape yet it remains the same. The vapour changes into clouds due to condensation.

It falls back on the surface of the earth to provide water to the drought-prone areas and to beautify and purify the earth (its birthplace). It provides life to the seeds inside the earth and helps them grow.

The rain doesn’t care if anyone bothers about her deeds or not, she completes her work and comes back home. The poet also compares the rain with a song as they both share a common journey. The song originates from the heart of the singer, travels across to fulfill the aim and comes back with due love for the singer (its originator).

In the poem, it is mentioned that there was a photograph where the poetess' mother and her cousins were smiling while her uncle clicked the photograph. They were looking at the camera with happy faces to keep the photo as a memory.
So while their were ready to be clicked, wind blew across the beach which made their hair come infront of their smiling faces. This is the proper explaination of the given phrase.

Khushwant Singh’s grandmother was closely involved in bringing him up when the author lived with her in the village during his early life. She used to wake him up early in the morning. While bathing and dressing him, she sang her prayers, she hoped that the young boy would learn it by heart. She then gave him breakfast – a stale chapatti with butter and sugar. Then they would go together to the temple and school. While the author learnt his lesson, the grandmother would holy books. They returned home together.

A turning point came in their friendship when his parents called them to city. Although they shared a room, she could not help him much. She hated music, science and western education. The common link of their friendship was gradually snapped.

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Mrs. Dorling is that individual who takes away all of narrator mother's belongings for safekeeping before the war strikes out. She is an impolite and a very selfish woman who doesn't recognize the narrator when the narrator comes for retrieving the things given to her before the war. She refuses to recognize the identity of the narrator and doesn't let the narrator to enter her house. She pretends to not recognize her, even though she does in reality. Her behaviour isn't justified since she breaks the trust of the narrator of her being good and kind. She is selfish and wishes to not return the articles once taken at all.

From my point of view is the only thing that matters the most in someone's life. We have seen people changing their behaviour or point of view for the person who has money in comparison to the person who doesn't have it.

It is also seen in our society that if the person has got money with him every person of the society starts following him, praise him and somehow wanted to be like him without knowing no what his behaviour is with public or other people.

Well things are not limited to this only everything that person has done in the past like any wrong thing will be forgotten up by the people easily, even it was one the worst things he has done.

Getting money doesn't mean that person will leave or forget his family but having money can make u earn respect in the society and can let you do many things. Who doesn't want to buy his own Lamborghini if they could but it's possible only if money is there.

Mrs Fitzgerald who was Mrs Pearson's friend ,knew some kind of magic which she had used in helping Mrs Pearson. She (Mrs Fitzgerald)exchanged bodies by the help of magic and taught a lesson to Mrs Pearson's sons and daughters.

Mrs Fitzgerald who was Mrs Pearson's friend ,knew some kind of magic which she had used in helping Mrs Pearson. She (Mrs Fitzgerald)exchanged bodies by the help of magic and taught a lesson to Mrs Pearson's sons and daughters.

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It is because when aram first sit on the horse, he just been shocked by seeing that mourad was riding it too good. And when he tried it, he fall from the horse but mourad didn't. That's why he is thinking that mourad was riding the horse for quite while.. HOPE IT HELPS YOU......☺

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In The Portrait of a Lady’ Khushwant Singh draws a pen-picture of his grandmother. He describes how he spent his childhood with her in the village. He also describes the changes that came in their relationship in the city. Ultimately, he describes the moving scene of her death.

Mrs Dorling held her hand on the door as though she wanted to prevent it from opening any further and her face absolutely gave no sign of recognition. She kept on staring at the woman in silence.

Mrs Dorling held her hand on the door as though she wanted to prevent it from opening any further and her face absolutely gave no sign of recognition. She kept on staring at the woman in silence.

How did Mrs Dorling react when the narrator said, m Mrs S’s daughter”?
Answer:
Mrs Dorling held her hand on the door as if she wanted to prevent it opening any
further. Her face showed no sign of recognition. She kept staring at the narrator without uttering a word.

Figure of speech means the quality and beauty of poem is described in sentence with using some words that has made a peom more attractive. Like the word " labored ease" in this word the word laboured means hardwork wheras ease means easily. It is oxymoron. In this way you have many more figure of speech but in poem it is called as poetic device . You might have study about Alnkar in hindi and figure of speech in English.

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Ranga is the son of the village accountant who was the first to be sent to Bangalore for higher education. Ranga is a very well mannered and educated young bachelor. A good boy who should get married as he would be the perfect husband for his wife. He is also gullible and gets tricked by the narrator into marrying Ratna. He respects the elders and unlike others he does not lose his village taught values even though he has lived in the city.

In the poem 'Photograph', the sea represents timelessness. The poet says that the sea '... appears to have changed less'. The sea is an element of nature where time has little or almost no influence.

Sea voyage is a wonderful experience. It sometimes shows that life is like a challenge that a person should face. In that lesson author along with family had determination and courage to face any kind of problems. 

The Goldfinch is being compared to engine. We know that a machine can work only with the presence of a fueled engine. The poet had earlier observed that the tree was silent. But when the goldfinch entered its thickness, it starts up. The tree is considered as a machine which starts working when the engine enters it.

 

    Another explanation is that the goldfinch is the engine and the baby birds are the machine. They were silent until their mother came. But when their mother came to them with food they started to make noises. In this case, the goldfinch is the engine, the baby birds the machine and the food is the fuel.

 

Mourad was considered a natural descendent of his uncle Khosrov for his craziness. Mourad was considered crazy by everyone who knew him because he was too obsessed about horses and could do anything for it. Everyone thought that his behavior was an inheritance from his uncle Khosrove because his father Zoab was fully normal.

 

The story 'The summer of the beautiful white horse' is about a few members of the Garokhlanian tribe. The main characters are two boys Aram and Mourad. the story is narrated by Aram. While he was talking about the strange behavior of his cousin Mourad, he says that Mourad had inherited the wildness from their uncle Khosrov.
Uncle khoserove was a big man with a loud voice. He was very impatient and almost always angry. He never listened to people properly before he shouted "It is no harm; pay no attention to it." Even when his son came running to him to report that their house is on fire, all he said was "It is no harm; pay no attention to it. when John Byro came to share his sorrow about his lost horse, uncle Khosrove repeated his usual words and the farmer left the place angrily.
He was slightly mad but he was harmless. In spite of his impatience and madness he also exercised complete honesty befitting his tribe.

The narrator’s uncle was considered to be a crazy man. Actually, he was the natural descendant of the crazy streak in the family. He was a huge and powerful man. He had a big strong head with black hair. He was a man of furious nature. He was short tempered and of irritable nature. He would not let anybody talk before him. He would stop him shouting. “It is no harm ; pay no attention to it.”

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Mrs. Dorling is that individual who takes away all of narrator mother's belongings for safekeeping before the war strikes out. She is an impolite and a very selfish woman who doesn't recognize the narrator when the narrator comes for retrieving the things given to her before the war. She refuses to recognize the identity of the narrator and doesn't let the narrator to enter her house. She pretends to not recognize her, even though she does in reality. Her behaviour isn't justified since she breaks the trust of the narrator of her being good and kind. She is selfish and wishes to not return the articles once taken at all.