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The Little Match Girl, Hans Christian Andersen

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The story is about a little girl’s dream and hope. On a cold New Year’s Eve, a poor, young girl tries to sell matches in the street. She is already shivering from cold and starvation, and she is walking barefoot having lost her two large slippers. She is too afraid to go home, because her father will beat her for not selling any matches, and also as the many cracks in their shack can’t keep out the cold wind. The girl takes shelter in an alley. The girl lights the matches to warm herself. In their glow she sees several lovely visions, starting with a warm stove, then a luxurious holiday feast where the goose almost jumps out at her, and then a magnificent Christmas tree and thereafter she happened to see her deceased grandmother. Extract I “It was bitterly cold, snow was … but what good were they?” Question (i): What was special about the particular evening in the story? What kind of weather was there in the evening? Answer (i):  It was New Year’s Eve, the last evening of the year....
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A Face in the Dark, Ruskin Bond

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“A Face in the Dark” by Ruskin Bond narrates an incident that revolves around Mr. Oliver, an Anglo-Indian teacher who taught in an English school in Shimla. It describes strange and frightening encounter of Mr. Oliver who spots a faceless boy in the eerie forest in the dark of the night. Panicked, he drops his torch and in the dark starts running and bumps into the night watchman who too is faceless. Extract I “From before Kipling’s time, the school had been run……..the school for several years.” Question (i):   Who was Mr Oliver? What was his usual leisure activity? Answer (i):  Mr Oliver was an Anglo-Indian teacher, who was teaching in a school, located on the outskirts of the hill-station of Simla. He was a bachelor and would usually stroll into the Simla Bazaar town located three miles from the school, and would return after dark by taking a shortcut through the pine forest. Question (ii):   What was called ‘Eton of the East’? Why? Answer (ii):  The all-boys schoo...
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