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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 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 Mrs. Packletide had offered a thousand rupees for the opportunity of shooting a tiger without over-much risk or exertion, _____________ 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 "If it's an old tiger I think you ought to get it cheaper. A thousand rupees is a lot of money." _____________ Louisa Mebbin adopted a protective elder-sister attitude towards money in general, irrespective of nationality or denomination _____________ "How amused everyone would be if they knew what really happened," said Louisa Mebbin a few days after the ball. _____________ 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 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 _____________ there are limits beyond which repressed emotions become dangerous. _______________

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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




  1. 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






  1. Mrs.
    Packletide had offered a thousand rupees for the opportunity of
    shooting a tiger without over-much risk or exertion,





_____________






  1. 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




  1. "If
    it's an old tiger I think you ought to get it cheaper. A thousand
    rupees is a lot of money."





_____________






  1. Louisa
    Mebbin adopted a protective elder-sister attitude towards money
    in general, irrespective of nationality or denomination





_____________






  1. "How
    amused everyone would be if they knew what really happened,"
    said Louisa Mebbin a few days after the ball.





_____________






  1. 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




  1. 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




_____________






  1. there are
    limits beyond which repressed emotions become dangerous.




_______________




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