Oru Manushyan-1st PUC Textbook Questions Answers-Detailed Solution For Chapter 4 -Vaikom Muhammad Basheer-Class Series
Oru Manushyan-1st PUC Textbook Questions Answers-Detailed Solution For Chapter 4 -Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
ORU MANUSHYAN QUESTION & ANSWERS
Answer the following questions (1-2 Marks)
1.How far was the big city from the narrator’s home-town?
Answer: The Big City Was Around a thousand five hundred miles Away From Narrator's Home Town.
2.Where did the narrator stay in the big city?
Answer: The Narrator Stayed In a very small dingy room In The Big City.
3.For the money, people would do anything, even ______ (Fill in the blank)
Answer: commit murder.
4.What was the narrator doing to earn a living?
Answer: The Narrator taught English to some migrant labourers in 'Oru Manushyan'.
5.______ was considered a great education there.
(a) Learning English
(b) Learning to write an address in English
(c) Writing addresses at the post-office.
Answer:(b) Learning to write an address in English.
6.What reason did the narrator give for sleeping all day and having food in the evening?
Answer: The Reason Narrator sleeps all day and have food in the evening that's because he could save the expense of drinking his morning tea and eating the noon meal.
7.How much money did the narrator have in his pocket as his life’s savings?
Answer: The Narrator Has Fourteen Rupees in his pocket as his life’s savings.
8.The man who came forward to pay the narrator’s bill was
(a) a man with a red turban.
(b) a person dressed in a suit.
(c) a money lender.
Answer:(a) A man with a red turban.
Oru Manushyan Comprehension II (3-4 Marks)
1.Describe the people and the place where the incident took place.
Answer: This question is extracted from the chapter "Oru Manushyan" written by "Vaikom Muhammad Basheer". The place was quite a big city in the valley of a mountain. The inhabitants did not have the virtue of mercy in their heart and were a cruel lot. They were ready to do anything for money. Shocking incidents like murder, robbery, pickpocketing were common or the order of the day. The inhabitants worked as soldiers, money lenders and watchmen in banks/mills/commercial establishments to earn a living. They had no knowledge of English and it was as though they were content in their own small world of malice and meanness. Learning To Write An Address In English was considered a great education there.
2.What was the routine of the narrator in the city?
Answer: This question is extracted from the chapter "Oru Manushyan" written by "Vaikom Muhammad Basheer". There was nothing exciting about the routine of the narrator in the city. He taught the migrant laborer's English as they wanted to write addresses in English at the post office. As they were working people, he could teach them only in the evening. Usually, his teaching went on from nine-thirty till eleven in the night. Since he earned very little, he slept the whole day and woke up at four in the evening so as to avoid the expenses of morning tea and noon lunch.
3.Give an account of the embarrassing experience of the narrator at the restaurant.
Answer: This question is extracted from the chapter "Oru Manushyan" written by "Vaikom Muhammad Basheer". The incident took place in the big city. One evening the narrator goes to a crowded restaurant to have his food and he ate chapatis as well as drank tea. But when he has to pay the bill of eleven annas, he realizes that his purse with his life’s savings of fourteen rupees is missing from his pocket of his coat. But, the owner of the restaurant thinks that the speaker is trying to cheat him and threatens to gouge his eyes out if he fails pay the complete amount. None of the others at the restaurant seem to have any kindness either on him. The speaker pleads with the owner to keep his coat as surety. But, the owner guffaws and makes the speaker remove his coat, shirt, and shoes in front of all the people that were presented in the restaurant. When he wants the speaker to remove even the trousers, the speaker pleads with him for mercy saying he has nothing inside. This only invokes more laughter and the restaurant owner, along with fifty other people gathered there, forces the speaker to strip further saying mockingly, “There must be something inside.” The speaker, now resigned to his fate, starts unbuttoning his trousers, all the time imagining himself standing naked in front of others, with his eyes gouged out. We see that the narrator is not only embarrassed but also humiliated. Since he is not a cheater, it must have been terribly embarrassing for him to have realized that he had eaten his food at the restaurant, but had no money to pay for the food. His embarrassment would have increased when the owner of the restaurant treated him as a cheat. But, to top it all, the cruel way in which not only the owner but also the people gathered there treated him would have been humiliating for the narrator.
4.A stranger saved the day for the narrator. How?
Answer: This question is extracted from the chapter "Oru Manushyan" written by "Vaikom Muhammad Basheer". When the narrator is at the point of removing his trousers though he has nothing inside, a blue-eyed,’ fair-complexioned six-footer, with a red turban and white trousers, intervenes and offers to pay the amount due from the narrator to the restaurant owner. He asks the speaker to go with him and when the grateful speaker asks for his name, he says he has no name. When the speaker says ‘Mercy’ must be his name, he does not react and walks on until they reach a deserted bridge. There, after making sure that no one is around, the stranger takes out five wallets and asks the speaker which of these is his. He warns the speaker to go away without turning around and adds that the speaker should not admit to anyone that he has seen the man. He gives the wallet, which has been identified by the speaker, with the money intact and leaves the place wishing the speaker that he be helped by God. The speaker, on his part, hopes that God would help the stranger. Thus we see that the pickpocket helps the narrator not only at the restaurant but also outside by returning the purse. This is how the act of kindness gains insignificance. First of all the pickpocket is good enough to help the man who faces humiliation as he has lost his purse; secondly, he is kind enough to return the purse; thirdly, the eleven annas that he pays is not the narrator’s money, but his own. Thus a stranger saved the day for the narrator.
Oru Manushyan Comprehension III (6 Marks)
1.Does the story ‘Oru Manushyan’ talk about transformation in a person/man? Discuss.
Answer: This question is extracted from the chapter "Oru Manushyan" written by "Vaikom Muhammad Basheer". Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (21 January 1908 – 5 July 1994), also known as Beypore Sultan, was an Indian independence activist and writer of Malayalam literature . The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honor of the Padma Shri in 1982. This question talks about transformation in a person/man in the chapter 'Oru Manushyan". Yes, indeed 'Oru Manushyan’ talk about transformation in a person/man. The transformation is seen in the pick-pocket. The pickpocket not only helps the narrator at the restaurant but also helps him further by returning the purse. This is how the act of kindness gains in significance. First of all the pickpocket is good enough to help the man who faces humiliation as he has lost his purse; secondly, he is kind enough to return the purse; thirdly, the twelve annas that he pays is not the narrator’s money, but his own. Perhaps the pickpocket, until then, was not a witness to the problems created for people from whom he had stolen their purse. Maybe the narrator’s plight reveals to him for the first time glimpses of the problems faced by people when they lose their purse, with their hard-earned money in it. That is why, despite the fact that people at that place were usually merciless, we see a transformation taking place in the heart of the pick-pocket.
2.Do you think the restaurant keeper was over-reacting when the narrator could not pay the bill? If so, what accounts for his behavior?
Answer: This question is extracted from the chapter "Oru Manushyan" written by "Vaikom Muhammad Basheer". Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (21 January 1908 – 5 July 1994), also known as Beypore Sultan, was an Indian independence activist and writer of Malayalam literature . The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honor of the Padma Shri in 1982. This question talks about the behavior of restaurant keeper towards the narrator. Yes, he was over-reacting when the narrator could not pay the bill He gives the narrator no chance at all. It is as if all those who claimed to have lost their purse were liars. Even when the narrator asks him to keep his coat, he shows no leniency. He has a lot of sadistic pleasure at the cost of the narrator while forcing him to strip. He comes out as a cruel man who has no pity at all for people with problems. However, there is the possibility that he has turned out to be so cruel after bitter experiences. If we consider the fact that the people of that place were ready to do anything for money, we should understand that the restaurant owner might have had people duping him with a cock-and-bull story of losing the purse. Maybe over the years, he has lost his gentleness and hence goes to the extreme extent of ill-treating such people so that others wouldn’t dare come up with lies. All said and done, the final word on the restaurant owner is that he comes out as merciless. He could have made the narrator do some work in his restaurant to make up for the eleven annas. But, he gives absolutely no chance to the narrator and humiliates him.
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It’s very untrue in saying that the stranger in the story is a transformed person. Transformation is a complete change in a person and the stranger never underwent this complete change. In the story we come to know that the narrator speaks of a city known for its cruelty and murders, robbery and pick pocketing were daily occurrences. And the stranger in this story was the inhabitant of this city. In spite of these, the stranger became the incarnation of kindness and mercy for the narrator. Because, the narrator who underwent an extremely humiliating experience at the restaurant by being asked to strip himself in front of the people had seen no kind face. On the other hand, they all had the look of hungry wolves. But the stranger saved the day for the narrator by paying his bill. And the narrator named him ‘mercy’. But this was not the transformation in the stranger. Instead, he was moved by the situation, especially, when he found that he was the cause for narrator’s predicament. And the stranger who saved the narrator from this humiliating experience hesitated to unveil his personal identity, nor did he prefer a crowded place to return narrator’s wallet and he took the narrator to a deserted bridge. These qualities we find with the stranger are akin to the qualities of a thief and it implies the absence of transformation in the stranger. And the conversation between the narrator and the stranger near the deserted bridge justifies this. The stranger who had other wallets, stolen from others, returned only the narrator’s wallets and asked the narrator not to tell others if he had seen him. Thus he was unwilling to return other wallets he had with him.
ReplyDeleteTherefore, these instances clearly indicate the fact that the stranger in the story is not a transformed person. And if was, he would have certainly returned the other wallets too. Because, the fate of the narrator could be fate of any other person who had been pick pocketed.