Question

They said that they would create a desk job for Hooper at headquarters.

(i) Who are 'they'?

(ii) Why did they decide to do this?

Answer 1

(i) The above sentence has been extracted from the story and “they” is referred to the personnel from Hooper’s office that visited him in the hospital.

(ii) Hooper was hospitalised after he had subdural haemorrhage as he met with an accident. After the first critical month had passed, in the fifth week, few men from his company came to visit and told him to take a year off, after seeing his condition. They said they would create a desk job for Hooper at the company’s headquarters.

They told Charles to take a year off and decided to assign him a desk job as his body’s left portion was paralysed.