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Appointment with loveSulamith ish-Kishor

Introduction

• Simple Love story

• Flashback technique

• No linear movement

• Main Characters – John Blandford , Hollis Meynell, A woman past 40.

Content Analysis

6 Minutes to 6

• Arrival of John Blandford at Grand

Central Station.- Excited

• Flash back - Felt fear

• Consoled – Hollis Meynell

Threads of colors

Starred roof

• Young girl:18yr .crimson sweet pea,

• Flash back-Florida - Army library

• ‘Of Human Bondage’ - remarks.

• Continued writing for 13 months.

4 Minutes to 6

Photograph

• John Blandford requested

Hollis Meynell for her photograph.

• Refused

• Looks are not important.

• free to stop or to go on after they

meet.

• Young woman – Tall, slim,

blond hair, blue eyes, springtime

come alive.

• John Blandford - started toward her.

• going my way soldier?

1 minute to 6

• Elderly woman past 40- plump,

gray hair, brown coat, red rose.

• John Blandford – split in two,

• shows ‘ Of Human Bondage’.

• invites her for dinner.

• Elderly woman - declared that

she is not the real Hollis

Meynell – test.

• Hollis Meynell was waiting for

him in the restaurant across the

street.

Match the Circles

John

Blandford liked

the remarks

in a woman’s

hand writing

throughout

the book

John Blandford

and Hollis

Meynell

corresponded

for 13 months

Hollis Meynell

A tall slim

woman

with blond

hair and

blue eyes

Wore a sweet

pea in her

suit lapel

A girl of

about 18

The woman

past 40

wore a

brown coat

and a red

rose in her

suit lapel

Hollis

Meynell wrote

sensitive remarks

in the book,

‘Of Human Bondage’

The woman

past 40 said

that Hollis

Meynell was

waiting for him

in the restaurant

across the street

Hollis Meynell

Does not send her

photograph

6 mins to 6 4 mins to 6

John Blandford

Grand Central

station

Flash back

Felt fear

Girl of about 18

Flash back

1. Florida Army

Library

2. photograph

Concept of Time

1 mins to 6 6. 00

Hollis Meynell

description

A woman well

past 40

Types of Questions –

• Factual – recall / recognize

• 1 Mark

Concept of place:

1. Hollis Meynell was waiting for

John Blandford in

a. Florida Army Library

b. Grand Central Station

c. the big restaurant across

the street.

2. John Blandford and Hollis

Meynell had decided to meet in

a. Florida Army Library

b. Grand Central Station

c. the big restaurant across

the street.

3. John Blandford found the book

‘Of Human Bondage’ in

a. Florida Army Library

b. Grand Central Station

c. the big restaurant across

the street.

4. The fat woman said that

Hollis Meynell was waiting for

John Blandford in

a. Florida Army Library

b. Grand Central Station

c. the big restaurant across

the street.

One Mark Questions

Answer in a word, a phrase

or a sentence.1. Name the woman who wrote

remarks in the book ‘Of

Human Bondage’. 2. Who is compared to spring

time in, ‘Appointment with

love’?

2. The woman past 40, wore a red

rose in her suit lapel because

a) she loved roses.

b) her husband gave it to her.

c) Hollis Meynell requested

her to wear it.

3. A red rose was worn by

a) a young girl of about 18

b) Hollis Meynell.

c) a fat woman well past 40.

4. When John Blandford

confessed he felt fear,

Hollis Meynell said that

a) only cowards fear.

b) ordinary people fear.

c) all brave men fear.

5. Hollis Meynell did not send her

photograph because she

a) did not have a photograph.

b) was ugly.

c) believed that looks were not

important.

6. Lt. Blandford's heart leaped

higher than his plane when

he saw a

a) slim woman with blond hair

and blue eyes.

b) girl about eighteen years old.

c) woman well past 40.

8. Where would Hollis Meynell be

waiting for John Blandford

according to the woman well

past 40?

9. Where had John Blandford and

Hollis Meynell decided to meet ?

10. What attracted Blandford In the

book ‘Of Human Bondage’?

Types of Questions – 4 Marks

• Essay type.

• Knowledge / comprehension/

expression.

• To select relevant facts is

important.

II. Answer the following in a

paragraph of 80 – 100 words

each. - 4 marks

1. What were the qualities that

John Blandford admired in

Hollis Meynell in,‘Appointment

with Love’ ?

Points

•John Blandford found the book

‘Of Human Bondage ‘ in the

Army library, Florida.

•He liked the remarks.

•When he confessed he felt fear

•photograph

•Looks not important

Ans : John Blandford liked the remarks

written by Hollis Meynell throughout

the book ‘Of Human Bondage’.He admired the way she could look

into a man’s heart so tenderly.

Secondly he had confessed to

Hollis Meynell that he had felt fear

to which she had quoted 23 rd psalm,.

’All brave men do fear’.

She was a huge moral support

to him. Thirdly when he asked her

for her photograph she flatly

refused to send it saying that looks

were not important in true love.

These were the qualities that

Blandford admired in Hollis Meynell.

Continued

2. Compare Hollis Meynell with the

woman past 40.

• Hollis Meynell was 30, tall,

smart with blond hair and blue eyes.

• intelligent and a sensitive woman.

• believed that true love

was beyond physical beauty.

• woman past 40.

• gray hair and thick feet.

• gentle and sensible with

a warm twinkle in her eyes.

Ans : Hollis Meynell was a young

and charming woman.

Her figure was long and

slim. Her blond hair lay back

in curls from her delicate

ears. Her eyes were blue

as flowers, her lips and

chin had a gentle firmness.

She looked as though spring

time had come alive.

The woman of 40 was plump, her

graying hair tucked under a worn hat

and her thick ankled feet were thrust

into low heeled shoes. Her gray

eyes had a warm kindly twinkle.

Hollis was intelligent and confident

and to some extent shrewd while the

woman of 40 was simple,gentle and

helpful.

Continued

Types of Questions – 6 Marks

Long answers

Expression / Opinion / Justify /Analyse

III. Answer the following in

about 200 words.

1. ‘Looks don’t matter in real love’.

Justify your answer in relation with

Hollis Meynell in the lesson

‘Appointment with Love’

Ans : Points• Found the book

• Friendship grew .

• Requests her to send her photograph

• Hollis Meynell refuses

• Says looks don’t matter

• True love – looks not important

• a woman of strong values

Ans - John Blandford had found a

book ‘Of Human Boundage’ in

Florida Army Library. Throughout

the book he saw notes in a woman’s

handwriting and liked the remarks

about how she could see into a

man’s heart. He found her address

in a New York City telephone book

and wrote to her. She replied and

they continued writing.

Their friendship grew and Blandford finally

requested her to send her photograph but

she flatly refused She wrote that looks were

not important and added that she may be a

very plain looking woman. If Blandford truly

loved her, he would accept her as she was.

She did not believe in physical attraction

because it would not last long. Thus we see

that Hollis Meynell was a woman of strong

values.

Continued

2. John Blandford lived upto

the expectations of Hollis

Meynell. Comment.

• Hollis Meynell knew that

John BlandFord liked her.

• But she did not believe in

physical attraction.

• So she thought of testing him.

• Blandford by inviting the woman

past 40 to dinner lived upto the

expectations of Hollis Meynell

Thus we can conclude that John

Blandford and Hollis Meynell give

concrete shape to new dimensions

in ourselves -undiscovered,

unexplored spheres within us.