UNIT – 8 (HUMAN RIGHTS)
Reading – A
(Jamaican Fragment)
1. Why was the narrator sure that the bigger boy was a Jamaican?
- The bigger of the two boys was a sturdy
youngster. He was very dark with a mat of coarse hair on his head and
coal-black eyes. All these qualities made the narrator believe the bigger was
surely a Jamaican.
2. "I
was amazed." Who was amazed and why was he amazed?
- The narrator was amazed. The little white
boy was imposing his will upon a little black boy and the little black boy
submitted meekly. This made the narrator amazed.
3. “The
game, if it could be called a game, was not elaborate." From this
sentence, we can understand that the writer knows it is a game, but then why
was he puzzled?
- On seeing the black boy's object
submission to the white boy, the narrator's thoughts went to his past days. The
blacks suffered a lot at the hands of the whites. His emotions ran very high.
Though he knew it was a game, he was unable to control his excitement. He
forgot that it was a game, and he was puzzled to see a little black boy being
treated as a slave.
4. If the
writer had seen the second day's game on the first day, what would he have
thought about it?
- The narrator's general conviction was that
in his country Jamaica, all the people, blacks and whites, live in harmony. If
the narrator had seen the game on the first day, he wouldn't have been so
excited. He would have taken that game as a mere game.
5. For a
whole day I puzzled over this problem. What was the problem?
- One morning, the narrator noticed two
little boys playing in the garden. One of them was a black boy and the other
was a white boy. He saw the black boy obeying the white one's orders very
faithfully, and so he was amazed. This was the problem which he puzzled over
for a whole day.
6. What made
the writer astonished the next morning?
- On the previous day, the writer saw the
black boy taking orders from the white boy. The next day, the writer noticed
the little dark boy striding imperiously and giving orders to the white boy.
This made the writer astonished.
7. What game
was being played by the boys? How did the writer react?
- The boys were playing a game in which one
played the role of a boss and the other as a servant. The writer smiled as he
remembered. It had been great fun to him as a youngster.
8. What did
the writer want to explain to the white man at the gate?
- The writer wanted to explain to the white
man that it was just a game. The black boy was not ruling over the white boy.
All their deeds were just a part of the game.
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