1.3. The Cop and the
Anthem
ICE BREAKERS
Ø 1. Suppose you have gone to a place where
the winter season is very severe, discuss with your partner the ways in which you would protect yourself in the cold climate.
Ans.- ways to protect from cold climate -
1. wear woolen clothes,
2 2. do exercise
3. drink tea and coffee
4. sit near bonfire.
5. use room heaters.
2.When you see a cop approaching, you feel either ‘relieved’ or ‘scared’. Discuss
with your partner the situations when
you feel ‘relieved’
or
‘scared’.
|
Relieved |
I was walking alone in a dark
street.
I a thief was attacked on me.
I lost my bag and important things. |
|
Scared |
I was riding a bike without
a valid driving
licence. I broke the traffic rules.
I was riding bike without licence. |
Ø 3. Discuss some of the motivating
things that can change
a person's life. One is given :
i
Listening
to an inspiring speech
ii
By reading biographies
of successful persons.
iii
By attending seminars
and conferences which are motivational.
iv
By developing
personality by taking participation different activities.
Brainstorming
A.1. i) Discuss with your partner and find
out the different ways in which Soapy tried to get arrested. The first one is
given.
a. Tried
to enter a luxurious café.
b. By
breaking window glass of an electric shop.
c. By
not paying money in the restaurant after takinf dinner.
d. By
behaving like a drunken man.
e. By
stealing umbrella of a man.
A2. i) Read the story and match the
incidents given in column A with the consequences given in column B.
|
1.
Soapy tried to enter a café. |
Strong and ready hands of the head waiter
turned him around. |
|
2.
Soapy broke a glass window. |
The cop ran after another man. |
|
3.
Two waiters pitched Soapy on the callus pavement. |
He stood up slowly beating the dust from
his clothes. |
|
4.
Soapy heard the anthem being played in the church. |
Suddenly a wonderful change came in his
heart. |
|
5.
Cop arrests Soapy for hanging around. |
Dream of turning around in life was
shattered. |
ii) Give reasons and complete the following.
a.
Soapy had confidence in himself because he was shaven and his coat
was trim and his neat, black bow.
b.
The head waiter of the luxurious café did not
allow Soapy to enter because he saw Soapy’s tattered trousers and decadent shoes.
c. The cop did not arrest Soapy for
breaking the glass window because Soapy was standing
still and with a smiling face. Police man thought that a man who smash windows
do not remain to chat with the police.
d.
The cop did not arrest
outing and dancing because he thought that Soapy
was a student of Hartford college. They are noisy but not harmful. They have
the instructions to neglect such people.
iii) Pick out
the lines from the text which show that :
a.
Soapy wants to enter the café for two reasons –
“The total
would not be so high as to call forth any extreme of revenge from the cafe
management; and
yet
the
meat would
leave him filled and happy for the journey
to his winter island.”
b.
Soapy was afraid that he won’t be able to enter the prison –
1.
It
seemed that his route to the coveted island was not to be easy one.
2.
Arrest
seemed now but an elusive dream. The island seemed very far away.
3.
In
his fancy the island seemed an unattainable Arcadia.
c.
Soapy was not caught by the cop throwing stones at the glass.-
“The policeman
refused
to
accept Soapy even
as a clue.”
d. Soapy
actually did not want the umbrella –
“He hurled
the
umbrella angrily
into an
excavation”.
e. Listening to the anthem, Soapy
remembered his good old days –
“And the anthem that the organist played cemented Soapy
to
the
iron
fence,
for
he
had known
it
well in the days
when his life contained such things as
mothers
and roses and
ambitions and
friends and
immaculate thoughts and collars.”
iv) ‘He would make a man of himself again’ – The word ‘man’ in the
sentence means - here soapy wants to find a work and protect himself
from different problems and he can decided to fulfill his basic needs
independently.
v) Soapy’s earlier life was much different from his present life.
Complete the table to show this contrast. One is done for you.
|
Earlier Life |
Present Life |
|
a. Contained friends and roses |
a. Unworthy desires |
|
b.
Contained
mother |
b. Dead hopes |
|
c.
Contained
ambitions |
c. wrecked
faculties |
|
d.
Immaculate
thoughts and collars |
d. base
motives |
vi)After listening to the sweet and solemn
organ notes, Soapy decides to:
a)
He
would pull himself out of the mire and would make a man of himself again.
b)
He
would conquer the evil that had enslaved him.
c)
He
would resurrect his old eager ambitions and purse them without faltering.
d)
Tomorrow
he would go into the roaring downtown district and find work.
e)
He
would be somebody in the world.
vii) Write an incident in which you did
something wrong and repented for it later. Give reason.
Once I told my parents
that I was in college but I went with my friend to watch cinema. When I understood my mistake I repented for
that. It is not good to say lie to parents because my parents do everything for
me. So I told truth my parents.
A3) i) O’Henry has used different words to
indicate prison where Soapy wants to reach. Make a list of those words.
Ans – winter island, coveted island, limbo,
island,
unattainable Arcadia
ii) Find out the words used for the
‘degraded state of mind’
Ans. - the
pit into which he had tumbled
the degraded days,
unworthy desires, dead hopes,
wrecked faculties and base motives.
iii) The specific meaning of word ‘anthem’
in the content of the story is –
Ans.- i) a prayer played by a artist on instrument
in a church on Sabbath day.
ii) a religious
instrumental song and a song which is played to motivate the persons.
A4) (i) Convert the following sentences
into negative without changing a meaning.
a)
The policeman refused to accept Soapy even as a clue.
Ans.- The policeman did not accept Soapy even as a clue.
b)
Soapy drifted along twice unsuccessful.
Ans. – Soapy drifted along twice with no success.
c)
Soapy stopped his unavailing racket.
Ans.- Soapy did not start his unavailing racket.
d)
The island seemed very far away.
Ans. – The island did not seem nearby.
e)
The island seemed an unattainable Arcadia.
Ans.- The island did not seem attainable Arcadia.
Or The island seemed an Arcadia which could not be attainable.
ii) Convert
the following sentences into affirmative without changing their meanings.
a) Men
who smash windows do not remain to chat with the police.
Ans. – Men who smash windows avoid chatting
with the police.
b) Why
don’t you call a cop?
Ans. – You should call a cop.
c) On
the opposite side of the street was a restaurant of no great pretensions.
Ans.- On the opposite side of the street
was a restaurant with low pretensions.
d) Noisy;
but no harm.
Ans.- Noisy; but harmless.
e) They
seemed to regard him as a king who could do no wrong.
Ans.- They seemed to regard him as a
king who could do only right.
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