A CONVERSATION WITH A READER --- Hilaire Belloc Bangalore University| B.Com/ BBA/I sem
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A CONVERSATION WITH A READER
--- Hilaire Belloc
Short Answer Questions :
1. The author's fellow traveller appeared as either commercial traveller or a publican, or the Hangman.
2. Why did the narrator feel dizzy with happiness?
The narrator felt dizzy with happiness upon catching the title of the book which his fellow-traveller had in his hands. It was one of his too numerous books of essays.
3. What was the reader's first remark on the book?
The reader's first remark on the book was “Silly stuff that.”
4. Name the two poems the reader mentions and praises.
The two poems the reader mentioned and praised were "Has made us what we are" and another poem called "Sambo's Prayer" .
5. Why did the man like the verses more than the book?
The man liked the verses more than the book because he felt that verses were splendid and good ringing stuff and he felt that it stirred the blood.
The Cask of Amontillado-Edgar Allan Poe New
1. Write a note on the conversation between the narrator and the reader in the train
The narrator asked the reader in the train how he came to read the book in his hand.Then he said that he doesn't know and said that the when he was just looking over the bookstall, the man recommended it to him and he thought that he must have taken it up by mistake for another book.He then tells that it was a shilling wasted because in those days the cheap editions were at a shilling.The author then asked him who the narrator was, he again said dully, that he doesn't know and picked up the book again, looked at the back, pronounced the author's name wrongly.He then threw the book down again and then told the author in a tone of bitterness that it was a funny thing, that the idea of reading something when one's travelling got to his mind but only he can't read that stuff.
When the narrator asked him what the book was all about he answered that he couldn't make out and picked up the book and looked at the title and told that it doesn't tell on the outside but what they've printed there was just foolishness,and there was no story he could make out. It was all cut up and might be newspaper articles and says that it beats him why people want to publish books like that.When the narrator told that may be it was probably for the money, reader repeated that it seemed so but there couldn't be much in that and then said that he never heard of the author before and didn't wanted to hear of him again.
2.Bring out the differences in the reader's opinions on the narrator's book and his favourite poems.
The reader was having a very poor opinion about narrators book. When the narrator asked the reader about the book he told him that it was silly stuff and got the book when he was just looking over the bookstall and the man recommended it to him and it was a shilling wasted .The author then asked him who the author of the book was, he said dully, that he don't know and picked up the book again,and pronounced the author's name wrongly, and says that he can't read that stuff.
When the author asked him what the book was all about he answered that he couldn't make out and told that it doesn't tell on the outside and what they've printed there was just foolishness.He says that it beats him why people want to publish books like that.When the author said that may be it was probably for the money, he repeated that it seemed so but there couldn't be much in that and then said that he never heard of him before and didn't wanted to hear of him again.
3. What were the author's thoughts/reflections when he saw his book in the hands of the fellow traveller?
The author was travelling down from Birmingham to London on the Great Western Railway. He was in a third-class smoking carriage with one other person, whom he took to be a commercial traveller.When the author saw his book in the hands of the fellow traveller his heart was already high .It was one of his too numerous books of essays.He thought to himself that it was fame and he was getting known. The fellow reader with the author's book was a very good specimen of the average public. The author loved him as he was reading his book.
The author was doubtless that many hundreds up and down the great enchanted island were doing the same, some reading one book , some another. He thought that they would read and re-read those books until their covers would be worn out, and then they would buy another copy. They would be telling all their friends about the book. Then more and more copies would be sold The world had changed its complexion and the author felt that his sun had risen at last.These were the thoughts of the author when he saw his book in the hands of the fellow traveller.
The five boons of life-Mark Twain American Literature
4. Why wasn't the narrator satisfied with his own book?
The narrator came to know from the reader that his book was not worth a shilling and was silly stuff. After hearing the reader's opinion about narrators book from his conversation with the reader who was his fellow passenger , the narrator decides to buy his book from the reader before the reader got down.
Then as he went through his book,he felt that the fellow traveller who had his book was quite right . It was a long time since he had seen those miserable essays, and now, as he turned from to another, reading a sentence here and a phrase there, he was disgusted. What with affectation in one place and false rhetoric in another and slipshod construction in a third and a ghastly lack of interest in all, he wished from the depths of his soul that he had never made himself responsible for the thing at all. Then his misery was added to by the sudden recollection that it would be his duty, that very week, to gather together yet another sheaf of such chance articles and put them again between covers as he do here and he felt that for all, life was a choice of two evils; and even a bad book to one's name was less dishonouring than a default in payment.
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