YCMOU B.A Second year ENG 214 solved Assignments 2022
ENG 214 How to Read A Short Story
🔹01: How does Lawrence’s style help to create a particular mood and atmosphere?
🔹02: Describe Paul’s mother in your own words?
🔹03 : Comment on the ending of the rocking horse winner. How would you end it? Give reason.
🔹04 : Do you think this story is different because a great writer like Tolstoy has retold it? Why?
🔹01 : How does Lawrence’s style help to create a particular mood and atmosphere?
ANSWER :
Write uses separate, single words and phrases, the total style is the chief dense a writer uses to evoke a particular tone. Lawrence uses a good deal of repetition, not only of words and phrases but also of whole remarks and sentences. The style helps us to create a tone and atmosphere.This style intensifies a progressive intensification of the tone and mood. time-to-time writer Lawrence uses recurring expressions like, bitter, bitterly, angered, grinding, flared etc.
Even though the story is very complex and intricate, the writer uses understandable general-use words without compromising the meaning and expression characters need to keep sentences short wherever possible but if the event mentioned in the story
demands an explanation of the context he has used long sentences during the story. A normal English story reader can read this story at his own reading speed. In the beginning of the story, Lawrence introduces a woman (Paul’s mother Hester).
“ there was a woman who was beautiful, who started with all advantages, yet she had no
luck” This sentence, though it describes the two possible qualities of the woman, the word
‘yet’ for a firm negation. For another example, “Nevertheless, when her children were present, she always felt the center of her heart go hard.
Lawrence uses from to darken the tone set so far. consider the details of a pleasant house with a garden, discreet servants and a cozy feeling of superiority over the neighborhood on the one hand, and the core of the relationship on the other. Here two different and differing elements are set side by side. Such a juxtaposition! Writer Lawrence uses in the first paragraph also contributes to intensify the particular tone and mood that pervades the story.
Atmosphere in the story as described by the writer Lawrence. In the first paragraph it refers to Paul's house and the bedroom at the top of the house. it definitely points to the isolation from the atmospheric point of view
🔹02 : Describe Paul’s mother in your own words?
ANSWER :
For much of the story, we only know Hester as ‘woman’ or ‘mother’ which is quite fitting for a character that spends much of the story struggling to find an identity distinct from traditional female roles.
Unhappy with her husband who can’t provide the luxurious life she desires, Hester tries out various occupations, including a job as an illustrator. The thing is , she isn't very successful at any of them. Hester may appear to be a devoted mother, but her children know how she chafes at her responsibilities. Hester senses constantly defining herself by the way others perceive her. Hester seems to internalize her children's judgment on her. What are the consequences of this lack. On the other hand, it would
be easy to judge Hester as a superficial and indifferent mother. How could she be so cold towards her own children. We see the effects of her indifference on Paul, who craves her attention.
Why can’t Hester be satisfied with what she has? Let's not forget, she lives a pretty comfortable life. she’s not exactly wallowing in poverty . On the other hand, Hester might be viewed as more sympathetically different for women to break free of traditional roles, particularly if they were married and had children. as an ordinary woman caught in a time when it was .
By the end of the story it seems that Hester is warning her son. She began to genuinely care for him and is troubled by his illness and death or is she really? whether Hester actually
experiences any kind of transformation over the course of the story, or whether she’s doomed to be defined by her lack and her greed.
🔹03 : Comment on the ending of the rocking horse winner. How would you end it? Give reason.
ANSWER :
The ending is just stone cold literally. Hester has never been very affectionate toward paul, but by the time of his illness, she seems to become very cold and, as Lawrence describes, her heart turned actually into a stone. After we witness Paul’s
sickness and death we patiently wait for Hester to finally express some grief or motherly emotion. We might want Hester to give Paul what he so desperately craved in
life: her motherly love. Instead, shrewd old uncle oscar gets the last word: “ At least she’s eighty thousand pounds richer, he says oh, and while we’re at it he was probably better off
dead anyway The fact that Uncle Oscar - the wealthy , successful uncle that Paul’s parents so envied , the uncle who exploited Paul’s fragile mental state to make a few bucks at the
race track gets the last say underscores the tragedy of Paul’s death. The desire for wealth tainted Paul's relationship with his mother all his life and its this same desire that leads to his ultimately death.
If I had to rewrite this story I would end it more realistic than emphasizing on the suspense . In my ending Paul wouldn’t die. Paul will be alive and he will have a different realization about his mother. Here is how story I would have ended: -
then something Very curious happened. His mother had disappeared , they had been waiting all evening for her to come home but she did not come back home. the following they had gone to the kitchen to have breakfast paul, then realize there was nothing made end.
their mother still has not come home. “Oh ! I hope mother comes back home soon” said Paul. He heard someone yelling “ Is there anyone home?” Paul looked outside, It was his uncle Oscar. He was looking for Paul’s mother to wish her a happy birthday. “Where is your mother paul?” asked Uncle Oscar. Paul begins to cry. “ She hasn’t come home since she took the money,
” said paul to his uncle while crying loudly and wiping his tears away
🔹04 : Do you think this story is different because a great writer like Tolstoy has retold it? Why?
ANSWER :
Yes! This story is different because a great Writer Leo Tolstoy retold it . How much Land a man needs ? is one of Leo Tolstoy’s most gripping and affecting short stories. The story examines the futility of chasing wealth , depicts the perils of greed and pride, and condemns corrupt economic structures.
The story employs skaz , a russian narrative form that emulates the dialect and expressions of oral speech . Using unsophisticated informal language typical of Skaz , an omniscient narrator begins the story as a peasant named Pahom eavesdropping on an argument between his wife and her elder sister. Married to a merchant, the elder sister proclaims city life as superior to country life.
This story expresses Tolstoy’s contempt for economic systems that equate material wealth with fulfillment as well as cyclically disadvantage and marginalize the poor.
The result is an incisive social critique revered by notable figures.
Tolstoy’s writing style as conveyed through bold diction details, imaginary , direct and reflective language , and varied syntax , is not only fully representative of his distinctive voice, but also extremely effective in helping him achieve his dual purpose of expressing his criticism.
Leo Tolstoy's goal was to construct a new style, prosaic matter of fact, but sharp and full of contrast, like life itself. To depict all in motion , the inner world of people and the life surrounding them , is the basic creative method of leo tolstoy used in the ‘ How Much Land Does A Man Need’ . He sought to reveal the reality underneath by removing the veneer custom precisely for that reason . Tolstoy was able to write such a different story .
Tolstoy never abandoned his way of looking at reality throughout the story. He portrayed cause and effect in the sequence. At the start of the story he selected the facts to be destroyed ; Then he arranged them. But at the end of the story , Tolstoy’s
method was reverse, to show that the cause and effect and the final result.
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