The Cop and the Anthem 4

The Cop and the Anthem

Extract No 04

Activities with expected answers

Page No. 30/31 [Lines, “Soapy walked  ……Next morning”]

Read the first activity, read the extract and do all the activities that follow.

A1. Flow chart :                         (02)

Complete the flow chart by writing down the atmosphere near the church.

(This is a practice activity)

Soapy walked eastward through a street damaged by improvements. He  Hurled the umbrella angrily into an excavation. He muttered against the men who wear helmets and carry clubs. Because he wanted to fall into their clutches, they seemed to regard him as a king who could do nothing wrong. 

At length,Soapy reached one of the avenues to the east where the glitter and turmoil was but faint. He dragged himself toward Madison Square, for the homing instinct survives even when the home is a park bench.

But, on an unusually quiet corner, Soapy came to a standstill. Here was an old church, quaint and rambling and gabled. Through one violet-stained window a soft light glowed, where, no doubts, the organist loitered over the keys, making sure of his mastery of the coming Sabbath anthem. For their drifted out to Soapy’s ears sweet music that caught and held him transfixed against the convolutions of the iron fence.

The moon was above, full and radiant; vehicles and pedestrians were few; sparrows twittered sleepily in the caves or a little while the scene might have been a country churchyard. And the anthem that the organist played cemented Soapy to the iron fence for he had known it well in the days when his life contained such things as mothers and roses and ambitions and friends and immaculate thoughts and collars.

The conjunction of Soapy’s receptive state of mind and the influences about the old church brought a sudden and wonderful change in his soul. He viewed with rising horror the pit into which he had tumbled, the degraded days, unworthy desires, dead hopes, wrecked faculties and base motivates that made up his existence.

And also in a moment his heart responded thrillingly to this strange mood. A strange impulse moved him to battle with this desperate fact. He would pull himself out of the mire and would make a man of himself again; he would conquer the evil that had enslaved him. There was time; he was young yet; he would resurrect his old eager ambitions and pursue them without faltering. Those solemn but sweet organ notes had set up a revolution in him. Tomorrow he would go into the roaring downtown district and find work. A fur importer had once offered him a place as driver. He would be somebody in the world. He would ----

Soapy felt a hand laid - on arm. He looked quickly around into the impassive face of a policeman.

“What are you doing’ here?” asked the officer.

“Nothing’, “said Soapy.

Then came along, “said the policeman.

“Three months on the island,” said the Magistrate in the Police Court the next morning. 

A2. Describe :                   (02)

Describe the wonderful change in soapy’s soul.

When soapy came near the place, he remembered his old days and his childhood life.  He recollect ed his worthless days, his wrong desires, his dead hopes, the lost power of his mind. These brought a sudden and wonderful change  in his soul. His heart answered. He decided that he would fight to change his life, pull himself up out of this situation and make a man of himself again.

A3. Interpret :                    (02)

Interpret the statement,” He would make a man of himself again…” The word,’Man” in the sentence implies.......

Soapy was an irresponsible person.He had never taken his life seriously.He used to enjoy his life.

He tried his best so that the police would arrest him and sent to Prison.When he came near the Church his heart answered that he would be a changed soul and he would fight back his life. Before this incident he never ever realised this.There was a sudden transformation in his soul.

A4. Personal Response :           (02)

“To err is human, to forgive is divine,” justify your answer with suitable examples in fifty words.

A5. Language study :           (02)

i) He muttered against the men.

 (Rewrite using past perfect tense)

He had muttered against the men.

ii) He dragged himself towards Madison square.

(Frame a,” wh question” to get the underlined part as an answer.)

Where did he drag himself?

iii) He viewed with rising horror, the pit into which he had tumbled.

(Identify the tenses used in the sentence) 

(Simple past and past perfect tense)

iv) Those solemn but sweet organ notes had set up a revolution in him.

( Rewrite the sentence beginning with,” A revolution…….”)

A revolution in him had been set up by those solemn but sweet organ notes.

v) “ what are you doing here?” asked the officer.  (Rewrite in Reported speech)

The officer asked/inquired what he/she was doing there.

A6. Vocabulary :.                   (02)

Find out words from the extract which mean the following.

a) Enthralled = transfixed

b) To speak quietly = muttered

c) Bright = radiant

d) Strong association = cemented.   

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The Cop and the Anthem 3

Prose section

The Cop and the Anthem

Extract No. 03

Activities with expected answers

Page No. 29/30 

[Lines, “Soapy was seized……blocks away”]

Read  the extract and do all the activities that follow.

A1. Flow chart :                     (02)

Complete the flow chart by writing down the actions made by soapy to show that he was in Intoxication.

(This is a Practice Activity)

Soapy was seized with a sudden fear that some dreadful enchanted had rendered him immune to arrest. He was in a state of panic, and, when he came upon another policeman lounging grandly in front of a  glittering theatre, he caught at the immediate straw of ‘disorderly conduct’.

On the sidewalk Soapy began  to yell drunken gibberish at the top of his harsh voice.  He danced, howled, raved and otherwise disturbed the skies.

The policeman merely twirled his club, turned his back to Soapy and Hartford and remarked to a citizen.

“Tis one of them Yale lads celebrating the goose egg they give to the Hartford College. Noisy; but no harm. We’ve instructions to let them be.

Disconsolate, Soapy stopped his unavailing racket. Would never policemen lay hands on him? In his fancy, the island seemed an unattainable Arcadia. He buttoned his thin coat against the chilling wind.

In the cigar store he saw a well-dressed man lighting a cigar at the swinging light. He had set his silk umbrella by the door entering. Soapy stepped inside, grabbed the umbrella and sauntered off with it slowly. The man at the cigar light followed hastily.

“My umbrella,” he said sternly.

“OH, is it?” sneered Soapy, adding insult to petty larceny. “Well, why don’t you call a policeman? I took it Your umbrella! Why don’t you call a cop? There stands one on the corner.

The Umbrella owner slowed his steps. Soapy did likewise, with a premonition that lucky would again run against him the policeman eyed at the two curiously.

“Of course,” said the umbrella man “ Well, you know how these mistakes occur  if it’s your umbrella. I hope you ‘ll excuse me - I picked it up this morning in a restaurant if you recognise it as yours, why I hope you’ll”.

“Of course it’s mine, “said Soapy savagely.

The ex-umbrella man retreated. The policeman hurried to assist a tall blonde in an  opera across the street in front of a street car that was approaching two blocks away.

A2. Give reasons :                   (02)

The policeman did not arrest soapy even though he had troubled the public because ……………………

According to the police, it was instructed to them that the youngsters  are celebrating as (the Yales) have defeated  Hartford College. Let them celebrate. Although they are noisy but not harmful. There was clear instructions from the authorities not to take action against them. The police thought soapy was one of them.

A3. Conclusion :                     (02)

Find out the conclusion from the statement,” I picked it up this morning in a Restaurant if you recognise it as yours, why I hope you’’ll in context with the above text.

When soapy saw a well-dressed man lighting a cigar at the swinging light, he saw the man with a silk Umbrella. Soapy grabbed the umbrella. When soapy asked him to call a policeman the man was scared because he might have stolen it from a shop in the morning in a Restaurant. The man thought it might belonged to soapy as soapy was very confident.

A3. Infer and Interpret:.            (02)

Interpret the following statement

 "Soapy was seized with a sudden fear that some dreadful enchanted had rendered him immune to arrest."

Practice Activity

A4. Personal Response :           (02)

  Write down your reaction, if you pick somebody else's belongings or possession by mistake. Narrate it in about fifty words.

A5. Language study                     (02)

i) He was in a state of panic.  (Frame a Rhetorical Question)

  Wasn’t he in a state of panic?

ii)Soapy was seized with a sudden fear that some dreadful enchanted had rendered him.

 Identify the tenses used in the above sentence.

(This is a Practice Activity)

iii) Soapy stepped inside, grabbed the umbrella.

(Make a simple sentence / compound  Sentence)

Stepping/by/After Stepping inside, soapy grabbed the umbrella.( Simple)

Soapy stepped inside and grabbed the umbrella.( Compound)

Iv) He saw a well dressed man.

(Frame a "Wh-Question" to get the underlined part as an answer)

Select your answer from the given options.

a) When did he saw a well dressed man?

b) Wasn't he well dressed?

c) What did he see?

d) How was the man?

Practice Activity for students

A6. Vocabulary :                  ( 02)

Find out words from the extract which mean the following.

e) Grabbed = seized

f) Standing comfortably= lounging

g) Senseless talk = gibberish

h) Loud wild sound = howled and raved

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The cop and the Anthem 2

Prose section

The Cop and the Anthem

Extract No 02

Activities with Expected answers

Page No.  29/30

  [Lines, “where’s the man……down the streets”]

Read the first activity, read the extract and do all the activities that follow:

A1. Who said to whom.             (02)

Write down who said to whom and rewrite the sentences.

a) “Where’s the man that done that?” ………The police officer said to the nearby people.

b) “Don’t you think that I might have had something to do with it?” Soapy said to the police officer.

c) “And don’t keep a gentleman waiting,” ……soapy said to the waiters

d) “No cop for you,”………………The waiters said to soapy.

“Where’s the man that done that?” inquired the officer agitatedly.

“Don’t you think that I might have had something to do it?” said Soapy, with a friendly tone, as one greets good fortune. 

The policeman refused to accept Soapy even as a clue. Men who smash windows do not remain to chat with police. They take to their heels. The policeman saw a man half-way down the block running to catch a car. With drawn Club he joined in the pursuit. Soapy, with disgust in his heart, drifted along, twice unsuccessful.

On the  opposite side of the street was a restaurant of no great pretensions. It catered to large appetites and modest purses. Its crockery and atmosphere were thick; its soup and napery thin. Into this place Soapy betook himself without challenge. At a table he sat and consumed beefsteak, flack jacks, doughnuts and pie. And then he told the waiter the fact that the minutes coin and himself were total stranger.

“Now, get busy and call a cop”, said Soapy. “And don’t keep a gentleman waiting.

“No cop for you,” said the waiter, with a voice like butter cakes and an eye like in the Manhattan cocktail. “Hey, Con!”

Neatly upon his left ear on the callous pavement two waiter pitched Soapy. He arose, joint by joint, as Carpenter’s rule opens, and dusted his clothes. Arrest seemed now but an elusive dream. The Island seemed very far away. A policeman who stood before a drugstore two doors away laughed and walked down the street.

A1.True or False:.                       (02)

a) The policeman arrested Soapy.

b) Soapy told the waiter the fact that he didn't have a penny.

c) The waiter called the cop to arrest Soapy.

d) Soapy thought that getting arrested seems to be very easy.

Practice Activity for students

A2. Describe :                     (02)

Describe the features of the Restaurant as mentioned in the extract in the light of the statement, “It Catered to large appetites and modest purses.”

The Restaurant was a restaurant of no great pretension. The crockery and the table clothes and Napkins seem to be ordinary. It serves in quantity and not in quality still it is affordable to common And poor people because they can get unlimited food in limited/reasonable amount or money.

A2. Give reasons :                     (02)

The policeman did not arrest soapy because ………

The PoliceMan thought that Men who smash windows do not remain to chat with police. They take to their Heels.They disappear from the place.At the same time, the policeman saw a man half-way down the block running to catch a car. With drawn Club he joined in the pursuit. 

A2 Infer/Interpret:

Infer and interpret the statement,"Don't you think that I might have had something to do about it? 

Write in your own words.

A3. Conclusion :            (02)

Find out the conclusion from the statement,” I picked it up this morning in a Restaurant if you recognise yours, why I hope you will,” in context with the above extract.

Practice Activity for students.

A4. Personal Response :             (02)

  Share  your and the owner’s reaction when you/ other person pick somebody else's/your belongings by mistake in about Fifty words.

A5. Language study :           (02)

i) ‘where’s the man that done that?’ inquired the officer.

(Rewrite in Reported speech)

The officer asked/inquired where the man was that done that.

ii) The police man saw a man half way down.

( Frame a wh question)

What did the police man see?

iii) Men who smash windows do not remain to chat with the police.

( Make a Simple Sentence)

Men smashing windows do not remain to chat with the police.

A6. Vocabulary :                    (02)

Find out words from the extract which mean the following.

a) Table clothes/Napkins = Napery

b) To cause to go = Betook

c) Ate = consumed

d) policeman = cop

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The cop and the Anthem 1

Prose Section

Lesson No 3.

The cop and the Anthem

 Extract No . 01 

Activities with expected answers

Page No. 28/29  [Lines, “ Soapy left……brass buttons”]

Read the extract and do all the activities that follow:

A1. Web                     (02)

Complete the web by writing down what soapy had planned to order in Cafe. 

1	2	3
4	5	6

Note:This is a practice Activity for students.

Soapy left his bench and strolled out of the square and across the level sea of asphalt, where Broadway and Fifth Avenue flow together. Up Broadway he turned, and stopped at a luxurious cafe.

Soapy had confidence in himself From the lowest button of his vest upward. He was shaven, and his coat was trim and his neat, black bow had been presented to him by a lady missionary on Thanksgiving Day. If only he could reach a table restaurant unsuspected, Success would be this. The portion of him that would raise no doubts in the waiter’s mind. A roasted mallard duck, thought, Soapy, would be about the thing with a bottle of wine and then some cheese, a cup of coffee and a cigar. One dollar for the cigar would be enough. The total would not be so high as to call forth ant extreme of revenge from the cafe management; and yet the meat would leave him filled and happy for the journey to his winter Island.

But as Soapy set foot inside the restaurant door, the head-waiter’s eye fell upon his tattered trousers and Decadent shoes. Strong and ready hands turned him about and conveyed him in silence and haste of the menaced Mallard.

Soapy turned off Broadway. It seemed that his route to the covered island was not to be an easy one. Some other way of entering the limbo must be devised.

At a corner of Sixth Avenue electric lights and cunningly displayed wares behind plate-glass made a shop window attractive. Soapy took a stone and dashed it through the glass. People came running round the corner, a policeman in the lead. Soapy stood still with his hands in his Pockets, and smiled at the sight of brass buttons.

 A2. Give reasons :                     (02)

Soapy failed in his first attempt in the cafe because ……………………

  Soapy set foot inside the restaurant door, the head-waiter’s eye fell upon his tattered trousers

and Decadent shoes. The waiters conveyed him that he won’t be allowed to enter into the cafe due to his financial condition as well as his appearance.

A3. Find out :                     (02)

Find out the attempts made by soapy with a desire that he would be caught by police and sent to Prison.

Firstly soapy tried to enter into a cafe even if he had no money. Secondly, when he came at the corner of the sixth avenue electric lights and beautifully decorated shop, he took a stone and smashed and Dashed  it through the glass with an intention that the nearby police would catch him.

A4. Personal Response :             (02)

Imagine you are a manager of hotel,a poor hungry boy come in

the hotel,consume the food and he isunable to pay the Bill.

Share your Views how, you will handle the

situation in fifty words.

A5. Language study :.                 (02)

i) He stopped at a luxurious cafe.

(Frame a “wh question” to get the underlined part as an Answer)

Where did he stop?

ii) As soapy set foot inside the restaurant door, the head-waiter’s eye fell upon his tattered Trousers and decadent shoes.

( Rewrite using ,’ As soon as”/No sooner. Than”)

As soon as soapy set foot inside the Restaurant door, the head-waiter’s eye fell upon his Tattered  trousers and decadent shoes.

No sooner did soapy set foot inside the Restaurant door than the head-waiter’s eye fell upon his  tattered trousers and decadent shoes.

A6. Vocabulary :.                      ( 02)

Find out words from the extract which mean the following :

a) Notice = eyes fell upon

b) Hurriedly = haste to

c) Menaced = troubled

d) Cunningly = very wisely.

A6. Vocabulary:.                           (02)

Find out words from the Extract which means Jail or Prison.

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On saying please 6

Prose Section

On saying please

Activities with Expected answers

Extract No. 06 

Page no. 18/19 

  [ Lines,” I have missed……………to the mind”]

Read the first activity, read the extract and do all the activities that follow:

A1. Summarise :                  ( 02)

Select two most appropriate sentences that summarise the extract.

a) Civility cannot be enforced by law.

b) Polite behaviour can be a better revenge in day to day life.

c) The extract deals with the humorous incidents in public.

d) Post war situations are mentioned in the extract.

I have missed him from my bus route of late; but I hope that only means that he has carried his Sunshine on to another road. It cannot be too widely diffused in a rather drab world. And I make no apologies for writing a panegyric on an unknown bus conductor. If Wordsworth could gather  Lessons of wisdom from the poor leech gatherer ‘on the lonely moor,’ I see no reason why lesser  people should not take lessons in conduct from one who shows how a very modest calling may be dignified by good temper and kindly feeling. 

It is a matter of general agreement that he war has had a chilling effects upon those little every day civilities of behaviour that sweeten the general air We must get those civilities back if we are to make life kindly and tolerable for each other. We cannot get them back by invoking the law. The policeman is a necessary symbol and the law is a  necessary institution for a society that is still somewhat lower than the angels. But the law can only protect us against material attack. Nor will the lift man’s way of meeting moral affront by physical violence help us to restore the civilities. I suggest to him, that he would have had a more subtle and effective revenge if he had treated the gentleman who would not say ‘Please’ with elaborate politeness. He would have had the victory, not only over the boor, but over himself, and that is the victory that counts. The polite man may lose the material advantage, but he always has the spiritual victory. I commend to the lift-man a story of Chesterfield. In his time the London streets were without the pavements of today and the man who ‘took the wall’ had the driest footing. ‘I never give the wall to a scoundrel,’ said a man who met Chesterfield one day in the street. ‘I always do’, said Chesterfield, Stepping  with a bow into the road. I hope the lift man will agree that his revenge was much sweeter than if he  had flung the fellow into the mud.

A2. Give reasons :                     (02)

According to the Narrator the victory over himself is more important in the case of the lift man Because…………………….

A3. Interpret :                     (02)

Interpret the statement,” Restoring the civilities is very effective than imposing law.”

A4. Personal Response :            (02)

“Manners maketh man,” Elaborate the idea in your own words in about fifty words.

A5. Language study :             (02)

i) We must get these civilities back.

(Replace the Modal auxiliary by another showing,” Advice/suggestion”)

We should get these civilities back.

ii) We cannot get them back by invoking the law.

(Rewrite the sentence using,” be able to”)

We are not able to/are unable to get them back by invoking the law.

iii) The polite man may lose the material advantage, but he always has the spiritual Victory.

( Rewrite using ,” Though/Although….”)

Though/ Although The polite man may lose the material advantage he always has the Spiritual  victory.

A6 Vocabulary:.                            (02)

Find out words from the extract which mean the following.

a) To spread =     diffused               

b) Dull or not attractive = drab

c) Very clever = subtle

d) praised or appreciated= commend. 

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On saying please 5

Prose Section

On saying please

 Extract No. 05

Activities with expected answers

Page no 16/17   [ Lines,” A few days……………sound investment”]

Read  the extract and do all the activities that follow:

A1. True or false :                    (2)

i) The writer’s toe was crushed under the feet of a traveller in train.  (F)

ii) The polite manner of the traveller made the writer feel comfortable. (T)

iii) The writer always used to follow him due to his courteous behaviour. (T)

iv) The writer believed that the journey with the person was a lesson of discourtesy. (F)

A few days after, my most sensitive toe was trampled on rather heavily as I sat reading on the top of a bus. I looked up with some anger and more agony, and saw my friend of the cheerful countenance. ‘Sorry, sir’, he said. ‘I know these are heavy boots. Got’em because  my own feet get trod on so much, and now I’m treading on other people’s. Hope I didn’t hurt you, sir,’ He had hurt me but he was so nice about it that I assured him he hadn’t. After this I began to observe him whenever I boarded his bus, and found a curious pleasure in the constant good nature of his bearing. He seemed to have an inexhaustible fund of patience and a gift for making his passengers comfortable. I noticed that if it was raining he would run up the stairs to give someone the tip that there was ‘room inside’. With old people he was as considerate as a son, and with children as solicitous as a father. He had evidently a peculiarly warm place in his heart for young people, and always indulged in some merry jest with them. If he had a blind man on board it wasn’t enough to set him down safely on the pavement. He would call to Bill in front to wait while he took him across the road or round the corner or otherwise safely on his way. In short, I found that he irradiated such an atmosphere of good temper and kindliness that a journey with him was a lesson in natural courtesy and good manners.

What struck me particularly was the ease with which he got through his work. If bad manners are infectious, so also are good manners. If we encounter incivility most of us are apt to become uncivil, but it is an unusually uncouth person who can be disagreeable with sunny people. It is with manners as with the weather. ‘Nothing clears up my spirits like a fine day’, said Keats, and a cheerful person descends on even the gloomiest of us with something of the benediction of a fine day. And so it was always fine weather on the polite conductor’s bus, and his own civility, his conciliatory address and good humoured bearing infected his passengers. In lightening their spirits he lightened his own task. His gaiety was not a wasteful luxury, but a sound investment.

A2. Find out :                   (02)

Find out the expressions that create a sense of humour in the extract.

He said. ‘I know these are heavy boots. Got’em because my own feet get trod on so much, and now I’m treading on other people’s. Hope I didn’t hurt you, sir,’ He had hurt me but he was so nice about it that I assured him he hadn’t.

A3. Complete :                  (02)

Complete the table by writing down situations and behaviour of the person in various Situations.

No situations(S)          behaviour( b)

1

Writers toe was crushed down under feet(s)

The traveller behaved very politely and apologised.(b)

2

On the staircases(s)

The man used to run on staircases and give them tip that there is Room inside (b)

3

With old people(s).

He was as considerate as a son(b)

4

With children(S).

He was as solicitous as a father (b)

5

With young people (S)

He used to behave warmly always indulged in some merry jest.(b)

6

With blind people (s)

Take care to help them cross the road safely.(b)

A4. Personal Response :            (02)

“ Good manners are infectious,” share your views on the opinion expressed by the writer .  Justify your answer with suitable examples

In Fifty words.

A5. Language study :.          (02)

i) He had hurt me but he was so nice about it.

(Rewrite the sentence beginning with,” Though…”)

Though he had hurt me he was so nice about it.

ii) He would run up the stairs.

(Rewrite the sentence using “used to”)

He used to run up the stairs

A6. Vocabulary :                   ( 02)

Find out words from the extract which mean the following.

a) Expression = countenance

b) Put down = treading

c) Caring and loving = solicitous 

d) Involved in = indulged in

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Poem 2.4 Have you Earned your tomorrow

Unit 2.4  Have you Earned your Tomorrow         

By Edgar Guest

 

Is anybody happier because you passed his way?

Does anyone remember that you spoke to him today?

This day is almost over, and its toiling time is through;

Is there anyone to utter now a kindly word of you?

Did you give a cheerful greeting to the friend who came along?

Or a churlish sort of “Howdy” and then vanish in the throng?

Were you selfish pure and simple as you rushed along the way,

Or is someone mighty grateful for a deed you did today?

Can you say tonight, in parting with the days that’s slipping fast,

That you helped a single brother of the many that you passed?

Is a single heart rejoicing over what you did or said

Does a man whose hopes were fading now with courage look ahead?

Did you waste the day, or lose it, was it well or sorely spent?

Did you leave a trail of kindness or a scar of discontent?

As you close your eyes in slumber do you think that God would say,

You have earned one more tomorrow by the work you did today?

- Edgar Guest

Toiling Time- time spent in hard physical work.

Churlish - rude

Howdy - an informal friendly greeting

throng - crowd,large number of people

Sorely - uselessly

Slumber - sleep

PARAPHRASE OF THE POEM

Have you earned your tomorrow by Edgar Guest is a four stanza poem that is separated into sets of four lines, or quatrains. Guest chose to confirm these quatrains to a consistent rhyme scheme. The lines follow the pattern of a a, b b, c c, d d, e e, f f. Immediately noteworthy is the repetition of the –ay’ sound that appears in the first, second and fourth stanzas. It has been used repetitively in order to make a new impact. Both elements of the poem constantly press on the reader’s mind.

As a reader will immediately notice upon beginning,” Have you earned your tomorrow” that the text is marked by questions directed at the reader. Each stanza contains at least two, sometimes three questions which probe at a one’s treatment of others. For example, the second stanza inquires into friendly greetings and kind actions while the third is concerned with helping others and giving hope. The speaker’s words are piercing, leaving no room for interpretation. Any reader who considers them even briefly, will be challenged to analyse their own goodness.

“Have you earned your tomorrow”, by Edgar Guest presents a number of probing questions to a reader about how they spend their days.

The poem begins with the speaker asking a reader if they did everything to improve the day of another human being. He continues on to ask if the reader greeted their friends cheerfully or if Instead they passed them by,” churlish(ly).It is the end of the day and time is running out to guarantee one’s actions are approved by God.

In the second half of the poem the speaker enquires into the reader’s actions further.

He hopes that everyone does what they can to bring hope and courage to those who do not

Have it in the poem concludes with the speaker reminding the reader that it is up to God whether or not, you have a tomorrow. Therefore, one should consider their actions care for if they want the next day.

Stanza One :

In the first stanza, the speaker begins with a question of all the questions to come this one is the most direct. It gets off to the heart of what Guest’s speaker is concerned with. He asks if today, ‘Your’ referring to the reader, made anyone’s day better. He speaks abstractly about ‘him’ the reader might have passed and helped or made happier. The speaker purposely does not define what this means. It is up for interpretation as it could mean any number of things.

This question is followed by a second then later a third. The second asks the reader if there was anyone, “You spoke to” today who remembers,” you” Again this question could mean anything.

The most important parts of these two questions are the emphasis on unprompted kindness and the fact that it is now the end of the day. The hours are running out for,’ You” to make a positive impact .The speaker emphasises this by asking if there is “anyone’ to utter now a kindly word of you? 

Stanza Two :

The second stanza begins with another question. Here, the speaker asks if anytime during the day” you” greeted a friend “cheerfully”. Now the kindness is moving inward. The speaker is also concerned with how” you” Treat those known to “you” as well.

In the next lines he presents the opposite, and pushes the reader on their own selfish tendencies rather than a cheerful, heartfelt, “hello” the speaker asks if “you’ were,” churlish’ or rude. This would Also be marked by one’s quick disappearance into the, ‘crowd” and a rushing off to another task. It is clear the speaker feels distaste at the idea of treating a friend in this way. He says very clearly that it is a “Pure(ly)’ “selfish’ way to be. As if he is hoping for the opposite response, he asks, “or” did “you’ act .

Stanza Three :

The third stanza begins with a longer question, probing into any help the reader might have given to a “single brother”. It is enough for the speaker if” you’ were kind to one person out of many “that you pass” An action like this would be sufficient to have “earned your tomorrow”

It is important to note how this way of thinking is connected to a number of different religions and their dependence on “good deeds”. This is backed up by Guest’s tendency to connect his themes to Christianity. In fact, God comes into a play in the fourth stanza as one is forced to contend with how they lived.

In the second half of the third stanza, the speaker uses courage and cowardice as tools to improve or worsen someone’s life. He asks if there is one “single heart” that is now “rejoicing’ due to “your’ actions. Ideally, he would like there to be” a man’ with improved hopes and reinvigorated courage to look ahead.

Stanza Four :

In the fourth stanza, the speaker states that any day not spent, at least in part, improving the lives of others is wasted. It is “lost’ if it was “sorely’ or ‘ badly’ spent on the other hand, if it was well….spent’ there will be a trail of kindness making one’s  path through the day. The last lines tells the reader(if they are unsure how their day was spent)that they can’ lose’ their “eyes’ in slumber’ and think about what God would have to say to them.

If after considering the response of God,  a reader feels as if they’ve done well, then tomorrow is assured, otherwise, God might look kindly on the actions or inactions of the day and tomorrow might not come.

Read the given extract and do all the activities that follow it:

A1. True or False :                 (02)

State whether the following statements are true or false.

a) The poet asks the reader whether he/she is kind to others or not. (T)

b) The poet expects that we should be rude and ungrateful to the people around us. (F)

c) The Poet believes that one should always help others and bring a smile on their

faces. (T)

d) If you are good to others ,God will be angry with you that you earned your day by being good the people. (F)

A1. Complete :                             (02)

Complete the sentences by choosing the information given in the extract.

1) The toiling time is over in the stanza means………….

a) Time spent in hard physical work

b) Happy and prosperous time ends.

c) Cooking time is over.

d) The time to party  its over

2) The poet expects the readers to be …………… with the people around them.

a) Cheerful and not rude.

b) Funny and humorous.

c) Rude and arrogant

d) Angry and upset.

3) The poet expects the reader to be …………………………. to one and all.

a) Helpful         b)    jealous      c)    arrogant       d)    irritating.

4) If you are good to others, God would surely say ……………………..

a) You have earned one more tomorrow.

b) You have wasted your life.

c) You are hopeless and useless.

d) You have no right to live in this world.

A2. Elaborate :                             (02)

“As you close your eyes in slumber do you think that God would say, you have earned one more tomorrow by the work you did today. 

Elaborate the idea expressed in these lines.

The speaker states that if you do not want to help others or being rude to people the day is “Lost” or badly spent. On the other hand it was “well spent” if there will be a trail of kindness “Making one’s path through the day. The lines tell the reader that they can close their eyes in slumber and think about what and God would have to say them.

If after considering the response of God, a reader feels as if they’ve done well, then tomorrow is assured.

A2. Find out :                             (02)

Find out the expressions/phrases which denote,” going away” from the extract.

The expressions are

“time is through”,  “vanish in the throng’,  “slipping fast”,  “many that you have passed”,  “Hopes were fading”,  ‘sorely spent” etc.

A3. Personal Response :             (02)

“Courtesy costs nothing but pays everything’ Share your views with suitable examples in Fifty words.

A3. Personal Response :             (02)

“Goodness always wins” share your views on this with suitable examples in about Fifty words.

A3. Personal Response :            (02)

 Moral and ethical virtues are the most preferred values in life.Justify your answer with suitable examples in Fifty words.

A3. Personal Response :            (02)

God help those who help themselves as well as others share your views on this in about Fifty words.

A4. Poetic Devices :                   (02)

“Is anybody happier because you passed his way?

Name and explain the figure of speech used in the above line.

The figure of speech used here is an example of an interrogation because the poet is asking the question to the readers.

A4. Poetic Devices :                     (02)

This day is almost over and its toiling time is through.

Identify the figure of speech used in the above line.

The figure of speech used here is called as an ALLITERATION because the initial sound / letter “t’’ is repeated in a pleasant manner.

A4. Poetic Devices:.                    (02)

Identify an example of Synecdoche from the poem.

The example of Synecdoche is

1." Is a single heart rejoicing over what you did or said

( The word heart which is a part of human body represents the whole i.e person)

A4. Poetic Devices :                   (02)

Complete the table

Complete the table by writing down the examples/lines of the figure of speech mentioned in the extract.

NO

            POETIC DEVICE

                                                   LINES

   01    ALLITERATION.      ............

1)This day is almost over,and it's toiling time is through (The initial sound/ Letter 't' is repeated)

2) Or a Churlish sort of " Howdy"and then vanish in the throng.

3) Does a man whose hopes were fading now with courage look ahead?

    02   INTERROGATION. ..............

The examples of interrogation are

there in first second and fourth stanzas line numbers 1,2 and 4

In the  third Stanza  second and fourth line.

A4. Poetic Devices :                     (02)

Complete the table.

Note down the Rhyme scheme used in the poem and also note down the Rhyming pair of words and complete the activity.

  Stanza

Rhyme scheme

Rhyming pair of words

Stanza one

a    a   b      b

Way-today, through-you

Stanza two

C     c      d     d

Along-throng, way-today

Stanza three

e      e     f      f

Fast-passed, said-

Stanza four

g     g      h     h

Spent-content, say-today

A5. Poetic creativity :             (02)

Compose two to four lines on your own on , "Good deeds”

( This is a practice Activity )

A5. Poetic Creativity:.                (02)

Is anything happier because you passed his way?

Does anyone remember that you spoke to him today?

This day is almost over, and is toiling time is through

Is there  anyone to utter now a kindly word of you?

Replace the underlined (second and fourth)lines by composing your own.

A5. Poetic Creativity :            (02)

Can you say tonight, in parting with the day that slipping fast

That you helped a single brother of the many that you passed,

Replace the underlined words/phrases and make use of your own words/phrases and create new lines.

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On saying please 4

Prose Section

On saying please

Extract No. 04

Activities with expected answers

Page no. 16/17  

 [ Lines, “It is ……………given me.”]

Read  the extract and do all the activities that follow:

A1. Rearrange :                            (02)

Following sentences are jumbled up rearrange them as per their occurrence in the extract.

a) The account was settled by the narrator

b) The narrator found a shilling in the corner of his pocket.

c) The narrator had left home without money.

d) The narrator told the conductor honestly that he did not have a penny

(Correct order is ....... c),  d),  b),  a) )

It is not, therefore, with any feeling of unfriendliness to conductors as a class that I pay a tribute to a particular member of that class. I first became conscious of his existence one day when I jumped on to a bus and found that I had left home without any money in my pocket. Everyone has had the experience and knows the feeling, the mixed feeling, which the discovery arouses. You are annoyed because you look like a fool at the best and like a knave at the worst. You would not be at all surprised if the conductor eyed you coldly as much as to say, ‘Yes I know that stale old trick. Now then, off you get.’ And even if the conductor is a good fellow and lets you down easily, you are faced with the necessity of going back and the inconvenience, perhaps, of missing your train or your engagement.

Having searched my pockets in vain for stray coppers, and having found I was utterly penniless, I told the conductor with as honest a face as I could assume that I couldn’t pay the fare, and must go back for money. ‘Oh, you needn’t get off: that’s all right’, said he. ‘All right’, said I, ‘but I haven’t a copper on me.’ ‘Oh I’ll book you through, he replied. ‘Where d’ye want to go ?’ and he handled his bundle of tickets with the air of a man who was prepared to give me a ticket for anywhere from the Bank to Hong Kong. I said it was very kind of him, and told him where I wanted to go, and as he gave me the ticket I said, ‘But where shall I send the fare?’ ‘Oh, you’ll see me some day all right’, he said cheerfully, as he turned to go. And then, luckily, my fingers, still wandering in the corners of my pockets lighted on a shilling and the account was squared. But that fact did not lessen the glow of pleasure which so good-natured an action had given me.

A2. Describe :                    (02)

Describe the feelings of the narrator when he realised that he was travelling without money.

There was a mixed and awkward feeling. The writer felt angry as he looked like a fool. He thought

The conductor would humiliate him by saying that it was an old trick of the ticketless passenger.

A3. Find out and give reasons :(02)

“I pay tribute to a particular member of that class. Find out which particular member of class the writer is talking about with reasons.

The writer is talking about the conductor of the bus. Despite of the fact that the writer was travelling without money the conductor did not shout at him and didn’t tell the writer to get down from the bus. He was very polite with the writer and handled the situation very calmly and quietly.

A4. Personal Response :            (02)

Share if you have similar kind of experience like the narrator had as mentioned in the extract.

A5. Language study :.                 (02)

i) I pay tribute to a particular member of that class.

(Rewrite using,” Present perfect continuous Tense”).

(Choose the correct answer from the options and rewrite it.)

1)I have been paying tribute to a particular member of that class.

2) I have paid tribute to a particular member of that class.

3) I had paid to a particular member of that class.

4) I will pay tribute to a particular member of that class.

ii) I couldn’t pay the fare.  ( Use, “be able to”)

I was not able to pay the fare. OR I was unable to pay the fare.

iii) It was very kind of him.  (Make it Exclamatory)

How kind it was of him!

iv) He gave me the ticket.

( Frame a ,”wh- question” to get the underlined part as an answer)

(Write your answer using the given clue.)

What ....... he ......... me?

v) I said,” But where shall I send the fare?” (Rewrite in Reported speech)

I asked/inquired but where I would send the fare.

A6. Vocabulary :                    (02)                    

Find Antonyms of the following words from the extract.

a) Friendly x Unfriendly

b) unconscious   x conscious

c) Convenience x Inconvenience

d) unlucky x lucky

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