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• A blurb is a description of a book on its back cover. It is brief summary of the book designed for marketing. It does not have any uniform pattern. Look at the sample blurb.Now prepare a blurb of’Pratham Pratishruti’ making use of the hints given on page 25.
• Imagine that Nomita’s mother visits Ajit’s household a few days after the quarrel between Nomita and Ajit. Nomita narrates the entire incident to her mother. She tries to console her daughter and promises that she won’t write letters to her. What would be the conversation between the mother and daughter? Draft the conversation.
• A person can react against injustice in different ways. Nomita reacted by quarrelling with her husband and setting fire to the anchol of her sari. What are the other possible ways in which Nomita could have reacted against her husband’s dirty habit? Suggest three other possible methods of response that could have been adopted by Nomita.
• Read the following excerpts from ‘Matchbox’ and ‘Horegallu’. ‘I can’t? I can’t do anything? You want to see if I can do anything?’, says Nomita ‘God has given me two ears to listen to others. I hear them out with sympathy and without any judgement’, says Ratna. What do you understand about the character of Nomita and Ratna? Compare and contrast the characters of Nomita and Ratna.
• After the panel presentation and discussion, the moderator synthesizes and summarizes the key points. Prepare a script of a speech summarizing the panel discussion.
• Given below is the blurb of a famous book. There are a few errors in it. Edit the passage. 1984 The year.1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell’s prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we was becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of ‘negative utopia’ – a startlingly original and haunting novel that create an imaginary world that is completely convincing, from the first sentence to the last four words. No one can deny that novels hold the imagination of whole generations.
• Why are women compared to matchboxes?
• What is the ‘poisoned knife’?
• How does Nomita frighten Ajit?
• What makes Nomita furious?