FINAL TOUCH : II PU ENGLISH

THE VOTER 1. Change in the attitude of the villagers In this story , Achebe makes an attempt to give the reader a glimpse in to the life of Igbo people and offers a satirical remarks of how politics generally works. The people of Umuofia were very ignorant and naive and voted Marcus. He won the election and became the minister of culture. Igbo people witnessed Marcus’s growth and development as a wealthy powerful Politian. Marcus builds a huge mansion in his native and names it ‘Umuofia Mansions.’ He hosts a grand dinner to all the people of his village. Now people realized how ‘politics’ can make people rich and powerful. By observing all these changes, they realized that they had underrated the power of ballot paper. So in the second election they demanded money for their votes. 3.Roof is an intelligent manipulator :  Roof was a very strong and intelligent person of Umuofia, a village in Nigeria. Roof worked as a bicycle repairer’s apprentice for two year i...

  WHERE THERE IS WHEEL                                                                                                               P.Sainath                                                                      1. Role of Arivoli Iyakkam: The cycling movement was started by Arivoli. N.Kannammal one of the pioneer and central co-ordinator of the cycling movement. Pudukottai’s vigorous literacy drive led by Arivoli Iyakkam (light of knowledge Movement) created a good number of the neo-literates and neo-cyclist. N.Kanna...

WATER The poem water by CHALAPALLI Swaroopa Rani presents the struggle, humiliation, anguish and sufferings undergone by the dalits to obtain their rightful share of water. It describes problems faced in the rural areas of Andra Pradesh. Dalits were considered as untouchable by upper caste people. They had to face many difficulties as they were prohibited from the basic necessities of life, the water. Water acts as a silent spectator for the ‘Generations- old strife.’  It knows that untouchability will never disappear like the dampness on the well’s edge. Dalits live outside the village and their colony is called ‘Wada’. They had no right to draw water from the well because water becomes impure. The poet cites biblical incident in which Jesus, the Jew, goes to Samarian woman and asks her for water, who belongs to an inferior race. The speaker says whether one is a cobbler or a weaver, water is essential to all. The speaker presents the instances of panchama who is forced ...

JAPAN AND BRAZIL THROUGH A TRAVELER’S EYE Introduction: Travel writing is about writing ones experience of travelling and visiting alien places. The writer, George Mikes, writes about his travelling experiences of Japan and Brazil in his work ‘The Rising of the Yen’ and ‘How To Tango’. Japanese Manner : The writer is impressed by exquisitely well – mannered people of Japan. Though they live in a small over crowded Island, they respect others’ privacy. They don’t over hear the others conversation. So courtesy has a double function as it is courtesy and it is substitute for privacy. They conduct their confidential business transactions, intimate love quarrels in public in perfect privacy. A man’s telephone – receiver is his castle. Bowing : Japanese bow to each other with a ceremonious and dignified way, yet with a great deal of natural grace. Bowing is a mania. Bowing is quainter, formal and oriental and infectious too. Japanese have a complicated hierarchy in bowing: who bows t...