Choose extracts from the story that illustrate the characters of the four main people in the story, and say what those extracts tell you about them. (Copy and complete the following.)

Person

Extracts from the story

What this tells us about their characters

Babuli

(paragraph 2) I have thought of home not even once.

(35)

He had neglected his family, and was preoccupied with the job and his new life in the city.

Babuli’s wife

(9)

-

Elder brother

(4)

(30)

-

Second brother

(6)

-

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Person

Extracts from the story

What this tells us about their characters

Babuli

I have thought of home not even once. (paragraph 2)

He had neglected his family, and was preoccupied with the job and his new life in the city.

Accept this, please. If you deny, I shall never show my face to you again. (35)

He felt remorse for his past behaviour, and decided to show his love to his elder brother through this tribute.

Babuli’s wife

What would be our share and how much would it fetch us on selling it? (9)

She was insensitive towards Babuli’s feelings regarding the division of his family land, and ignored them. All she thought was how much they could gain from this division.

Elder brother

Even now, he is the same man with the same tone of love and compassion. (4)

He had not changed in the face of circumstances, and he still loved his family members.

Like a perfect gentleman he was looking at the proceedings dispassionately…attending sincerely to his duties. (30)

He believed that looking after the well being of his brothers was his duty. He provided for them, and prevented selfish thoughts and feelings from clouding his judgment.

Second brother

It was my second brother who was so particular and adamant about the division. He wanted it at any cost. (6)

He was insensitive towards his family, and only cared for what was good for him and his wife.

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Choose extracts from the story that illustrate the characters of these people in it.

Person	Extracts from the story	What this tells us about their characters
Mrs. Bramble	(Para 12) “Bill we must keep it from Harold”	She was not honest and open with her son; concerned mother
Mr. Bramble	(Para 33)	--
Percy	(Para 109)	-
Jerry Fisher	(Para 110)	-

Choose extracts from the story that illustrate the characters of these people in it.

Person	Extracts from the story	What this tells us about their characters
Mrs. Bramble	(Para 12) “Bill we must keep it from Harold”	She was not honest and open with her son; concerned mother
Mr. Bramble	(Para 33)
Percy	(Para 109)
Jerry Fisher	(Para 110)

Apart from the narrator, the other major character in the story is the grandmother. Choose five words that best sum up her character, and support your choice with relevant extracts from the story, i.e.,

The grandmother is…	Extracts that illustrate this…
(a)	-
(b)	-
(c)	-
(d)	-
(e)	-

Choose extracts from the story that illustrate the character of the people listed in the table given below. There are some words given to help you. You may add words of your own. One has been done as an example:

vain

jealous

competitive

shrewd

manipulative

stingy

materialistic

spiteful

Character	Extract from the story	What this tells us about the character
Mrs. Packletide	(i) The compelling motive for her sudden deviation towards the footsteps of Nimrod was the fact that Loona Bimberton had recently been carried eleven miles in an aeroplane by an Algerian aviator, and talked of nothing else; only a personally procured tiger-skin and a heavy harvest of Press photographs could successfully counter that sort of thing	Competitive
	(ii) Mrs. Packletide had offered a thousand rupees for the opportunity of shooting a tiger without over-much risk or exertion,	_____________
	(iii) Mrs. Packletide faced the cameras with a light heart, and her pictured fame reached from the pages of the Texas Weekly Snapshot to the illustrated Monday upplement of the Novoe Vremya.	_____________
Louisa Mebbin	(i) "If it's an old tiger I think you ought to get it cheaper. A thousand rupees is a lot of money."	_____________
	(ii) Louisa Mebbin adopted a protective elder-sister attitude towards money in general, irrespective of nationality or denomination	_____________
	(iii) "How amused everyone would be if they knew what really happened," said Louisa Mebbin a few days after the ball.	_____________
	(iv) Louisa Mebbin's pretty week-end cottage, christened by her "Les Fauves," and gay in summer-time with its garden borders of tiger-lilies, is the wonder and admiration of her friends	_____________
Loona Bimberton	(i) As for Loona Bimberton, she refused to look at an illustrated paper for weeks, and her letter of thanks for the gift of a tiger-claw brooch was a model of repressed emotions	_____________
	(ii) there are limits beyond which repressed emotions become dangerous.	_______________

Here are some direct quotations from the story. Note who (speaker) says them to whom (addressee), and what each quotation suggests about the speaker. Use one or more adjectives in the ‘character’ column. (Copy and complete the table in your notebook.) Work in groups of four.

Speaker	Addressee	Quotation	‘Character’ Adjectives
-	-	I have been watching you for some time, (paragraph 4)	-
-	-	Anyway, I can travel alone, (paragraph 5)	-
-	-	He was all right. (paragraph 15)	-
-	-	He is one of my friends, and the best bowler in the class, (paragraph 18)	-
-	-	It’s such a nuisance having to wait for the train … (paragraph 22)	-
-	-	And never talk to strangers! (paragraph 24)	-
-	-	I like strangers … (paragraph 24)	-

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Person	Extracts from the story	What this tells us about their characters
Babuli	I have thought of home not even once. (paragraph 2)	He had neglected his family, and was preoccupied with the job and his new life in the city.
Babuli		Accept this, please. If you deny, I shall never show my face to you again. (35)	He felt remorse for his past behaviour, and decided to show his love to his elder brother through this tribute.
Babuli’s wife	What would be our share and how much would it fetch us on selling it? (9)	She was insensitive towards Babuli’s feelings regarding the division of his family land, and ignored them. All she thought was how much they could gain from this division.
Elder brother	Even now, he is the same man with the same tone of love and compassion. (4)	He had not changed in the face of circumstances, and he still loved his family members.
Elder brother		Like a perfect gentleman he was looking at the proceedings dispassionately…attending sincerely to his duties. (30)	He believed that looking after the well being of his brothers was his duty. He provided for them, and prevented selfish thoughts and feelings from clouding his judgment.
Second brother	It was my second brother who was so particular and adamant about the division. He wanted it at any cost. (6)	He was insensitive towards his family, and only cared for what was good for him and his wife.