The message of the story
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The theme of the story
Explain if you agree or disagree with the following observations of the author and why.
Explain what the writer means.
1. giving the name of "Good Hope Fort" to the place where Elizabeth and John went for their holiday. (29)
2. describing spring in the following way: "at length spring came and buds broke in the obscene wilderness round the house." (17) "They arrived on a gusty April afternoon after a train journey of normal discomfort." (30) What atmosphere or what mood do the attributive words create?
3. The irregular polyhedron of memory rolled uncertainly and came to rest. (33)
1. ... soldiers in far-distant camps think of their wives with a tenderness they seldom felt at home. (17)
2. ... in a few hours the whole tale had floated away in those lightless attics of the mind where films and dreams and funny stories lie spider-shrouded for a lifetime, unless, as sometimes happens, an intruder brings them to light. (28)
5. Explain which of the following phrases could be said to be:
Your home is what you make it.
The outgoing class is inherently incapable to come to grips with the changing world.
War and its effect on a man's mind.
Those who are unable to accommodate the change will be damned.
It's human to think other people responsible for the faults of our own.
War is a crime because it cripples people's minds.
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