PAWAR PUBLIC SCHOOL, CHANDIVALI SECOND TERM (2021-22)

SUBJECT - LITERATURE IN ENGLISH PAPER 2 GRADE -8 AFTER TWENTY YEARS OCTOBER,2021

This paper consists of 9 printed sides

PART A- THEME ANALYSIS

PART B - INTRODUCTION AND MODEL READING

PART C- EXPLANATION

PART D- COMPREHENSION

Part A About the Autor. O Henry

Henry (1862-1910) was originally born William Sydney Porter in Greensboro,

North Carolina. As a young man, he moved to Austin, Texas where he worked as

a bank teller. ...

Part B- Introduction and Model Reading

Let us ponder (1)

Q1) Answer the following questions

1) What time does the story begin?

2) Where was the man from the west leaning?

Q2) Reference to context

I’m just waiting for a friend. It’s an appointment made twenty years ago. Sounds a

little funny to you, doesn’t it?

1) Who said these words and to whom?

2) Why would it sound funny to the listener?

3) What happened twenty years ago?

Let us ponder (2)

Reference to context

It takes the West to put a razor edge on him.

1) Who said these words and to whom?

2) Who does ‘him’ refer to here?

3) According to you how Bob has become razor-sharp?

Part –C Explanation https://youtu.be/9A3DBlpPMio The story opens with a policeman on night patrol in the New York city. As he

walks his beat, he checks locks for safety. He spots a man standing in a doorway.

However, the man reassures the officer that he was not any suspicious character.

Rather, he was waiting for a friend with whom he has made an appointment twenty

years ago to meet at the same spot. He lights a cigar and continues to tell the

lawman about his friend, Jimmy Wells, who was sure to be there on time as he had

always been a sincere friend. The policeman departs and after a few minutes a man

arrives who addresses him as ‘Bob’ and the two men happily greet each other. But,

Bob suddenly realizes that the man didn’t look like his friend at all. He accepts his

friend’s reply that he’d grown taller and changed a bit since they last met. As they

walk further the bright lights of the drug store reveals that the man was not his

friend but he could no longer escape arrest from the plain clothes man posing as

Jimmy. Before taking him into custody, the man hands over a note from his friend,

addressed to Bob. Actually, the man he had unknowingly met earlier was his

friend, Jimmy. Jimmy had written in the note that he recognized Bob’s face as the

fugitive from Chicago but didn’t have the heart to arrest his dear friend himself.

Yet his unwavering obligation to law and his sense of responsibility made him get

‘Silky Bob’, the diamond smuggler arrested so as to prove his loyalty to the code

of his profession.

Word study On the beat: the round taken by the policeman while he is on watch. To beat a hasty retreat: to back away quickly in order to avoid

something unpleasant. To beat around the bush: to approach a subject in an indirect way.

To beat one’s brain: to think very hard about something for a long time. Beat it into one’s head: to repeat till one understands or remember it. To beat the clock: to finish a task or a race before a particular time.

Part D – Comprehension

Answer the following

1) How can you say that Jimmy Wells was sharp and clever?

2) What does the note tell you about Jimmy and Bob?

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