SHORT ANSWERS
A. It was hard for author to believe that his grandmother was once young and pretty because she was too old as she cannot have childrens but lots of Grandchildrens. This was just and child's imagination is author was too young to understand the cycle of life.
Q. How does the author describe his grandfather?
A. The Portrait of his grandfather the hang on the wall full stop the author describe that he was wearing a turban and having a white beard. He look at least hundred year old.
Q. Express the phrase not "pretty but beautiful" with reference to the chapter?
A. The word pretty stands for the outer beauty but beautiful stands for the inner beauty. Grandmother may not have been pretty but according to the author she was beautiful she possessed deep spiritual beauty.
Q. Why couldn't the grandmother walk Street? How did she move around the house?
A. The grandmother couldn't walk straight because she was too old to have flexible muscles. She hobbled about the house in Spotless white with one hand resting on her waist to balance her stoop and the other telling the bats of the Rosary.
Q. Grandmother appeared like "the winter landscape in Mountain". Discuss.
A. author's grandmother appeared like "the winter landscape in the mountains". This is because of white hair and Spotless cloth. the author's grandmother used to wear the clothes which would have no spots. Also, she was beautiful person from inside.
Q. What kind of Bond did the author and grandmother share in village?
A. When the author's parent went to live in the city and left him with his grandmother, she took utmost care of him right form waking him up in the morning, getting him ready for this school, taking him to the and bringing him back from the school. Both enjoy an easy companionship.
Q. What was the daily routine of grandmother in the village?
A. The grandmother daily routine starts from up to the morning. she used to wake him and said the morning prayer. She would get the author ready and would accompany him to the school. While the author learn lesson at school, the grandmother would read scripture inside the adjoining temple.
Q. Was the grandmother educated? how can you tell?
A. No, she was not educated as you can see that when author used to study subject like English, etc., she I won't like those subject as the school for not giving any knowledge about the God and scriptures. also she couldn't help him on his homework.
Q. What was the turning point in friendship of grandmother and author?
A. The author's parents comfortably settled in the city and asked them to come. In the city, the author had to go to an english school by a motor bus and the grandmother could not help him with his lessons because they were in the language, which was beyond grandmother's understanding. There was no outing for grandmother any more. This was the turning point in friendship of grandmother and author.
Q. Why was the grandmother disturbed when she came to know that music lessons were being in the school?
A. The author's grandmother was disturbed when she came to know that music lesson were being given in the school because she always associated music with harlots and beggars and not with gentle flok.
LONG ANSWERS
Q. Describe the life of author's grandmother in the village in contrast with the kind of life she LED in the City coma highlighting her values.
A. In village, the grandmother will get the author ready and would accompany him to school. While the author learn the lessons at school, the grandmother would read scriptures inside adjoining Temple. She used to help the author with his lessons. also, she used to feed street dog.
In contrast, when she came to city with author then author started going to an English school with motor bus. She cannot accompany him to the school. Not she can help him with is lessons because they are in English. In city, she started feeding sparrows.
Q. Life of dedicating and integrating can be live even without college or university level education, as the grandmother demonstrate. Elaborate.
A. Life of dedicating and integrating can believe even without college university level education. In this reference we can see that grandmother's dedication is towards God. Dedication is not only towards studies, it can be towards god as well.
As we see in the chapter grandmother used to read scriptures in the temple. All the she was not educated she help author in his lessons related to culture. She used to pray every morning. In her last time she used to who take the name of god rather than talking to anyone else.
Q. Give a character sketch of grandmother ?
A. Grandmother was an old wrinkly woman coma who couldn't have grown older she was short and slightly bent. She always were a white saree with silver locks covering her face. She has a come, gentle and reassuring face. She always has one hand supporting her back while the other is busy in telling the beads of Rosary.
She spends all her time in chanting prayers. She is very kind hearted as she used to feed dogs and sparrows. She love a grandson.
She is accustomed to old tradition and isn't really interested in modern education.
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