A letter to God.
[Link] did Lencho write a letter? What did he ask for?
[Link] does the postmaster send money to Lencho? Why does he sign the
letter ‘God’?
[Link] far would you agree that one’s positivity can bring in a spark of
brightness even in adverse circumstances’?
[Link] Lencho surprised to find a letter with money in it? Why/Why not?
[Link] was Lencho angry? What did he do?
[Link] calls the raindrops ‘new coins’. Why does he call them so?
[Link] were Lencho and his family in distress? Whom did he ask for help?
[Link] we’re really going to get some water woman.” Is Lencho sure that it
is going to rain? Give a reason for your answer.
[Link] the letter reach God? Why did the postmaster send a reply to
Lencho?
[Link] was Lencho angry when he received the letter?
[Link] describes the post office employees as “a bunch of crooks.”
(i) Were they a bunch of crooks?
(ii) How would you describe them?
[Link] the loss caused by the heavy fall of hailstones in general and
to Lencho in particular.
[Link] did the postmaster react when a postman showed him the letter
to God?
[Link] did the postmaster decide to answer Lencho’s letter?
[Link] did Lencho go a bit earlier than usual to the post office the
following Sunday?
[Link] did Lencho show no surprise on seeing the money?
[Link] did Lencho write in his second letter to God? Why did he ask Him
not to send the rest of the money by post mail?
Dust of snow.
[Link] is the theme of the poem.
[Link] side of nature do ‘crow’ and ‘hemlock’ represent?
[Link] the role of the crow in the poem “Dust of Snow” in changing the
poet’s mood.
[Link] mood of the poet is reflected in the poem? How does it reflect?
5 . Where was the poet and what happened to him?
[Link] Crow’ and the ‘hemlock tree’ are generally considered to be
inauspicious and ominous symbols. Does the poet use them so?
[Link] does the poet say that he had `saved some part of a day I (he) had
rued’?
Fire and Ice
[Link] is the central idea of the poem.
[Link] do you think would be enough to destroy the world? Can Fire and
Ice contribute to it?
[Link] two ideas about how the world will end have been mentioned in
the poem? Which idea does the poet support more?
[Link] to the poet, what does ‘fire’ and ‘ice’ represent? Do you agree
with him?
[Link] will the world end twice?
[Link] does the poet say, ‘I’ve tasted of desire/I hold with those who
favour fire?
Nelson Mandela long walk to freedom.
[Link] did inauguration ceremony take place in the amphitheatre formed
by the Union Building in Pretoria?
[Link] do you understand by Apartheid’?
3Why could men not fulfil their twin obligations?
[Link] did the ‘ceremonies’ take place? Why were the ceremonies so
important?
[Link] had the military general’s attitude changed, and why?
[Link] was Mandela overwhelmed with a sense of history?
[Link] problems hinder each man to fulfil these obligations in South
Africa?
[Link] did the policy of apartheid create a deep and lasting wound in
South African blacks?
[Link] was Mandela overwhelmed with a sense of history and what bad
thing happened in the first decade of the 10th century?
[Link] did the display of jets and military salute symbolise?
[Link] ideals did Mandela set out for the future of South Africa in his
speech?
[Link] was born out of the experience of an extraordinary human
disaster? Why should humanity be proud of it?
[Link] did Nelson Mandela pledge when he was sworn in as President?
[Link] did Mandela’s hunger for self-turn into a hunger for freedom for
all his people?
[Link] does Mandela define courage and from where did he learn the
meaning of courage
[Link] is “indivisible”, said Mandela. How were the chains on anyone
were the chains on all of his people?
[Link] unintended effect was produced by decades of oppression?
[Link] did Nelson Mandela remember on the day of the Inaugural
Ceremony?
[Link] was that site a rainbow gathering of different colours and nations?
[Link] was the apartheid regime in South Africa was one of the harshest
and most inhuman systems in the world?
[Link] did the policy of apartheid and deep oppression produce patriots
of extraordinary, courage, wisdom and generosity?
[Link] names were particularly taken by Mandela in the inauguration
ceremony?
[Link] can people be taught to love? Which comes naturally to the
human heart — love or hate?
[Link] Mandela born with a hunger to be free? What did freedom mean to
him in childhood?
[Link] were the two anthems sung on the day of oath-taking ceremony?
[Link] did Nelson Mandela feel that both the oppressor and the
oppressed are robbed of their humanity and hence, both of them must be
liberated?
[Link] was the 10th of May, 1994 a red-letter day in the history of South
Africa
[Link] achieving political emancipation what does Mandela want to do in
South Africa?
[Link] is the greatest wealth of a country according to Nelson Mandela?
[Link] were the transitory freedoms that Nelson Mandela yearned for as
a young man? Why did he feel that his boyhood freedom was an illusion?