FINAL TOUCH : II PU ENGLISH

Instructions : Question Paper is reduced to 80 marks. 1 marks.      :  Be thorough with the text book. 4 / 6 marks : Read the summary of all the poems  Overall / important part of the lesson as mentioned  in the blog  notes . Grammar :     -Report/speech writing is deleted. +Letter Writing is an expected question so  be ready to attempt . +Linker/reported speech/passive voice - Refer blog for further notes. Better start now 🙂                    

 The poem, To The Foot From Its Child by Pablo Neruda , expresses the  realities of life imposed on human by the society. Through the image of  foot, being a metaphor for the child, describes the various stages of life ; infancy, childhood, adulthood, maturity and finally death. To begin, foot is unaware it's a foot and wishes to be a butterfly or an apple ; to fly high and to lead a fruitful life.  The innocent foot believes that its imagination will be turned into reality. But as time passes by it realises the harsh realities of life; stones ,bits of glasses , that it cannot be a butterfly or an apple. Here the foot feels defeated in the battle of life and made to lead a life of prisoner, within the boundaries posed by the society.  Being in the shoe, it grows in the darkness and the humdrum realities of life and acts as a blind man . Slowly the foot changes itself in to a hard substance which depicts the agony and hardships undergone by the foot.  The f...

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...