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CBSE Solutions Class 8 English It So Happened
Page No. 57
Comprehension Check
Q1. Why had Framton Nuttel come to the “rural retreat”?
Answer: Framton Nuttel had come to the “rural retreat” to undergo a nerve cure.
Q2. Why had his sister given him letters of introduction to people living there?
Answer: His sister knew that he would meet very few people in the countryside. So he would feel very unhappy. His condition would become worse than before. So she had given him letters of introduction to the people she knew there.
Q3. What had happened in the Sappleton family as narrated by the niece?
Answer: The niece played a practical joke on Sappleton when she came to know that he was a total stranger. She said that her aunt’s husband, two brothers and a dog had gone for hunting through the window three years ago. They never returned. But the aunt was still hoping to see them back through the open window.
Comprehension Check
Q1. What did Mrs Sappleton say about the open window?
Answer: When Mrs. Sappleton met Mr. Nuttel, she said that husband and her two young brothers would enter the house through the open window. Hence, she kept it open till it was dark and hoped that Mr. Nuttel had no problem in keeping the window open.
Q2. The horror on the girl’s face made Framton swing around in his seat. What did he see?
Answer: In the dusk light, Framton noticed a silhouette of three men and a dog when he turned around. The dog was then yelled at by a hoarse voice. The description matched Vera’s description.
Comprehension Check
Q1. Why did Framton rush out wildly ?
Answer: Mrs. Sappleton looked out of the window. She saw that her husband and two brothers were coming. She said that they had come at last just in time for tea. They were covered with mud and spaniel followed them. Framton Nuttel got panicked. He thought that they were ghosts. It made him rush out wildly.
Q2. What was the girl’s explanation for his lightning exit?
Answer: The girl tells her aunt that Framton was terrified of dogs because one time he was hunted into a cemetery somewhere on the banks of the Ganges by a pack of dogs. She said that he had to spend the night in a newly dug grave with the scary dogs snarling and grinning and foaming just above him. This is why, she claimed, Framton left at lightning speed.
Excercise
Q1. Is this a mystery story? Give a reason for your answer.
Answer: While explaining the mystery behind the open French window, the events narrated by Mrs Sappleton’s niece manage to create a sense of foreboding. Later, when the three men approach the open window, the reader (like Framton) can only logically conclude that they were ghosts. Hence, one can say that this story does contain elements of the mysterious.
Q2. You are familiar with the ‘irony’ of the situation in a story. (Remember The Cop and the Anthem in Class VII Supplementary Reader!) Which situations in ‘The Open Window’ are good examples of the use of irony ?
Answer: There are the following examples of irony in ‘The Open Window’:
(i) Framton’s sister gives him a letter of introduction so that he can have people to talk to and his nerves do not become worse. But his experience in Sappleton’s house proves the reverse. He runs away from there more shaken than ever.
(ii) Mrs Sappleton hopes that Vera had been amusing Framton, who says that she had been intersting. But in fact she had planned to frighten him, and Framton and Mrs Sappleton do not know this.
Q3. Which phrases/sentences in the text do you find difficult to understand ? Select a few and guess the meaning of each. Rewrite a simple paraphrase of each.
Answer: There are some phrases/sentences in the text which I found difficult to understand. Some of them are enlisted below :
- Bury yourself down there : You will feel very lonely.
- Came into the nice division : Can be placed in the category of the nice people.
- An undefinable something about the room seemed to suggest masculine habitation : There was something about the room which could not be described. It seemed to suggest that the room belonged to a man.
- Treacherous piece of bog : The bog was treacherous. Its surface was green but underneath it was a wet spongy ground.
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