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Mikail couldn’t look for work because he had with him his new-born brother. His mother had died at childbirth.

He was chased away by his fellow Armenians because they were unable to bear the continuous, disturbing cries of the new-born baby

The Chinaman and his wife are exemplary models for love and humanity. The Armenians and Anatolians have so many imaginary stories showing the Orientals as cruel and brutal. But here we see them to be much more empathetic towards the suffering Mikali and his new-born brother. Mikali and brother were driven out both from the Armenian and Anatolian camps because of the constant cries of the starving newborn baby. As its mother had died in childbirth he never got any milk. By sucking its thumb all the time, it had swollen. Its body was frail and head had grown to enormous size.

All these did riot make the refugees from both the camps to help the baby. The Armenians wanted it to die so that they are not disturbed by the cries of the baby. But the Chinaman and his wife proved to be a real savior as the wife breastfed the baby without worrying how horrible and dirty it looked. The Chinaman and his wife prove there are still good people on this earth.

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2. True 

3. False 

4. False 

5. True 

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Mikali experienced great indifference and neglect from both the Armenian and Anatolian camps. The refugees in both the camps behaved as if they had lost all their humanity. Not a single man or woman from both the camps felt pity on the newborn babe or. Mikali. I do not notice any difference between the two camps – both were miserable.

1. Prepare posters 

2. Conduct awareness programmes 

3. Make the people hygiene conscience 

4. Make the people to keep their premises and environment clean

• Give early warnings to people. 
• Evacuate people to safer places. 
• Ensure that there is enough food supplies. 
• Ensure that the hospitals are ready to look after the sick. 
• Take all the possible steps to prevent such calamities. Prevention is better than cure.

• Conduct awareness programmes. 
• Drink only clean water, preferably boiled and cooled. 
• Eat only healthy diet. 
• Take preventive vaccinations. 
• Avoid contact with the sick people.

Mikali’s newborn brother.

At first she cried and then with immense pity she pressed the baby to her heart and gave it breast-milk.

No woman in the camp came forward to help and protect the child. It is very saddening and shameful of them to behave in that inhuman manner.

Mikali had been told that there was a nursing mother there who might take pity on his baby. So with full of hope there he went there.

No. Nobody helped Mikali.

He would have to go looking for some halfeaten roll left on a plate; or else, rake about in the garbage for what a dog would not have eaten. Suddenly, life 9. seemed to him so full of horrors that he covered his face with his hands and began to cry badly.

It was very difficult for Mikali to get food and shelter. He was helpless and his life was full of misery. Moreover, he was mercilessly turned away by people, g. There was nothing he could do to help the baby he carried along. So he felt immensely alone and lost.

1. diseases

2. deaths 

3. loss of property 

4. dislocations

1. Flood 

2. Drought

At Mikali’s appeal, a lovely, dark woman appeared. She held in her arms an infant blissfully sucking the maternal breast; its eyes were half-closed. She asked if she could see the kid and enquired whether it was a boy or a girl. On hearing this Mikali was happy.

The child had no longer anything human about it. The head had become enormous and the body was all shrivelled up. As until then it had sucked only its thumb, it was all swollen. So, the women give vent to cries of horror.

They settled down in any way they could: the richest under tents; the others in the ruined sheds; but the majority of the refugees were sheltered under carpets held up at the four corners by sticks.

The Armenians and Anatolians chased Mikali away from the camp. He couldn’t find food for his wailing newborn brother. This made him feel immensely alone and lost.

He was tired and he was carrying the baby on his back. He couldn’t find food for himself and his wailing brother.

The Anatolians were refugees who had fled from the Turkish massacres in Asia Minor.

She gave a cry of immense pity and then pressed the baby to her heart, giving it the breast. Then, with a gesture of modesty, she brought forward a flap of her robe over the milk-swollen breast and the poor, gluttonous infant suckling there.

Mikali silently admired the Chinaman’s baby.

The child became a problem to Mikali because the mother died at childbirth and Mikali had to take care of the newborn baby. The child became a problem for others in the refugee camp as it always cried. Since it did not get any milk to drink it was hungry and it went on crying disturbing the others in the camp. They had their own problems and they did not want to hear these constant cries.

Mikali is a loving boy. In spite of his hunger and tiredness he carried the baby on his back all the. time. Finally, he gets help from the Chinaman and his wife. His perseverance and brotherly love are quite impressive.