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(a) The tigers are called Aunt Jennifers tiger as they are knitted by her. With their chivalrous, ferocious, bright and carefree attitude, she creates an alternate world for herself.

(b) Aunt Jennifers tigers are described as ferocious, fearless, always harmful, sleek and chivalric.

(c) The tigers are depicted as brave, strong, confident and happy. They are fearless beings and the presence of men does not scare them at all. Contrarily, Aunt Jennifer is burdened by a life which, most probably, others chose for her.

(d) The word “chivalric” refers to the confidence of the tigers about their power and brevity in their actions.

Answer:
1. The poem is ‘Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers’ by Adrienne Rich.
2. The aunt’s ordeal was that she was dominated by her husband and was denied freedom.
3. Aunt Jennifer made tigers to give expression to her desire for freedom.
4. Aunt Jennifer was meek and submissive whereas the tigers she embroidered were strong and courageous.

a) Who does ‘we’ refer to in the above lines?

Answer : ‘We’ refers to the human beings, who are always thinking about their own progress and advancement.

b) Why does the poet want us to ‘do nothing’ for once?

Answer : The poet wants us to ‘do nothing’ for once so that our mind can be at peace and we get some time to introspect and analyse our own actions.

c) What is the ‘sadness’ that the poet refers to in the poem?

Answer : The poet refers to the ‘sadness’ which arises due to the fact that people fail to understand themselves. They have no time to introspect about their actions and their consequences.

d) How can a huge silence do good to us ? 

Answer : A huge silence can do good to us because we would be able to achieve peace in this silence. It would help us in analysing ourselves and our actions. This would interrupt the sadness of threatening ourselves with death.

Answer:
1. The poem is ‘A Thing of Beauty’.
2. The ‘mighty dead’ referred to here are our ancestors, the great people of the world who are worthy of respect.
3. The endless fountain of immortal drink are all the things of beauty that sustain mankind.
4. The word ‘brink’ means ‘an edge at the top/ the point of onset’.

Jo was not convinced with the ending of the story and coaxed her father to retell the story the next day giving the story a predetermined path that she had set. According to her, neither Roger Skunk nor the wizard was wrong in the story. Jo refused to accept the end where Roger Skunk's mother hit the wizard and that too without being hit back. She wanted the story to end with the wizard hitting back the mother skunk with his magic wand on her head.

The story raises the moral issue that there is a sharp contrast between an adult’s perspective of life and the worldview of a little child. The adult’s perspective on life is different from that of a child because of the difference in their experience of life.
A child’s thought, actions and reactions are natural and are from his heart in accordance with what is right in his quite narrow perspective. On the other hand, an adult who has seen many things in life has to consider before speaking or reacting by thinking of the society.
For the children, everything has a happy ending but the adults know that this is not possible.

Derry tells Mr. Lamb that acid has not only burnt his face, it has burnt his innerself also. No body likes him anymore. Everyone around him is afraid of his ugly and burnt face. Nobody wants him close. People talk mercilessly about him. They call him as ugly as a devil. All this has hurt his soul. It has spoilt his life. He has become a defiant and withdrawn young boy. He no more likes to be part of the society. Neither society is ready to make him a part of it.

After having got rid of his stink, Roger Skunk did not have the required seven pennies to pay the wizard who had helped to solve his problem. He had only four pennies and so when the wizard demanded seven pennies Roger Skunk began to cry.

The young trees are described as 'sprinting' which means rushing past the poet as she is travelling in a very fast-moving car. While travelling in a speeding vehicle, the objects outside appear to be rushing past us in the opposite direction. The trees seem to be running past the moving car. The sprinting of the trees symbolises the rapidly passing years of human's life from childhood to old age.

Answer:
Jo calls the skunk’s mommy stupid because the mommy hit the wizard and forced him to make skunk smell bad again. Jo knew now again Roger skunk would have no friends. Moreover the wizard was the hero according to Jo and Roger’s ‘stupid’ mommy could not understand why Roger wanted to change his smell.

Jo calls Roger's mom stupid because she hit the wizard on his head with her umbrella and asked him to give Roger his old stinky smell back.

With troubled and tensed mind, Roger Skunk went to meet the Wizard to get rid of his bad smell. The Wizard also got annoyed with his dirty smell and told him not to come close to him. Roger requested him to change his smell. The Wizard ask him what he wanted to smell like. He told Wizard that he wanted to smell like a rose. The Wizard took a magic wand and chanted a spell. All of a sudden, the inside of the Wizard's house was filled with the smell of roses. Roger Skunk too started smelling like roses.

Wizard helped Roger skunk by changing his stinky smell to that of roses.

A drama is a piece of writing, which is artistically presented with dialogues. A drama is attractive, impactful and real as it presents characters along with a natural and credible aspects. It is very similar to a short story as it also comprises characters, plot, setting as well as symbolism. These essential elements of drama include the plot of the story, the theme, the genre in which the story belongs, the characters, the setting, and the audience.

Saheb was a barefooted rag picker who every morning came to writer's neighborhood to pick the rag and searching for gold in the dumb. He don't see the rag as a means of survival for them as others. He was his own owner and used to live a carefree life. But when he was working on some tea stall, he lost his own ownership and carefree happy look of his early days

Saheb is a rag-picker from Seemapuri whose parents migrated from Bangladesh in the year 1971. The writer encounters him every morning with barefoot in her neighbourhood. He is scrounging for gold in the garbage dumps. He is unable to go to school because there is none in his neighbourhood. Saheb-e-Alam is his full name though he does not know its exact meaning. It means ‘Lord of the universe.’ It is ironical on his part that a poor fellow roams in the streets picking up the rags. For the rag-pickers of Seemapuri, Garbage is wrapped in wonder. Sometimes one can find a rupee, more of a silver coin and they always hope to find more. They live in squatters with roofs of tin and tarpaulin. They have no identity except a ration card for voting and buying grain. They are devoid of sewages, drainage and running water. Survival in Seemapuri means rag-picking. At present Saheb is working at some tea stall. The writer sees him with a steel canister. He has lost his carefree look of his early days. He is not happy with his work because he is no longer his own master.

The bond that unites Mr. Lamb and Derry is the loneliness and alienation they experience on account of their physical disabilities. Mr. Lamb lost a leg in the war and has a tin leg while Derry has an acid bum on one cheek which gives him an ugly appearance. The actual pain and inconvenience caused by a disability is often much less than the sense of estrangement felt by a disabled person. But, unlike Derry, Mr. Lamb always maintains a positive attitude towards life and is a downright extrovert.

One alternate ending to the story 'On the Face of It' would be that when Derry returns to Mr Lamb, he finds the latter waiting for him in his garden. The two would become good friends and inspire each other to live life with zeal and hope.

Derry is a complex-ridden fourteen year old boy. He is a victim of inferiority complex after acid accidentally spilled and burnt one side of his face. His handicap has filled him with bitterness and so Derry suffers more on account of the pain that his own views of how everyone hates him, causes him. Mr. Lamb has a garden that is full of fruits, flowers and trees and herbs of all sorts. He likes his garden because it attracts young children and he gets a sense of pleasure in pulling down the ripe crab apples from the trees and making jelly for the children who visit his garden.

Mr. Lamb was a very amiable and friendly person who would get into theconversation with the passersby and allow children to play in his garden. When it’s a bit cool, Mr Lamb keeps himself busy by pulling down the ripe crab apples of his garden with the help of the ladder and a stick. He makes jelly with those apples.

There was a man who was always afraid of everything in this world. He thought that anything could happen to him. He might be either run over by a bus or might be infected with deadly germs of another man. Even a donkey might kick him to death. Lightning might strike him down or he might slip on a banana peel. So he always locked himself into a room. One day a picture fell off the wall on his head and killed him.

The people saw Derry’s acid-burnt face. His ugly face had become fearful to look at. The people did not discourage him. Rather, they often asked him to look at those who are in pain but are brave. They consoled him to think of them who never cried and complained though they are worse than him. They called him better than the blind, deaf, lame, crazy and cripple.

Roger Skunk went to the wise Owl because he wants to get rid off of his foul smell comes out of body and further he had also desired to change his body smell into Rose ones so that he can play with other animals who taunt him for his nasty smell.