Can you think of some other ending for the story?
The story could have ended on the more positive note. Instead of resigning from his job, Mahendra could have shown more audacity and proved the ghost theory wrong. Another ending can be of both by showing Mahendra and Iswaran continuing their bond and leaving the place together .
How does Iswaran describe the uprooted tree on the highway? What effect does he want to create in his listeners?
In what way is Iswaran an asset to Mahendra?
How does he narrate the story of the tusker? Does it appear to be plausible?
Mahendra calls ghosts or spirits a figment of the imagination. What happens to him on a full-moon night?
Why does the author say that Iswaran seemed to more than make up for the absence of a TV in Mahendra’s living quarters?
What are the things the child sees on his way to the fair? Why does he lag behind?
How does Toto come to grandfather’s private zoo?
What are the two strange things the guru and his disciple find in the Kingdom of Fools?
Why do the courtiers call the prince ‘the Happy Prince’? Is he really happy? What does he see all around him?
What havoc has the super cyclone wreaked in the life of the people of Orissa?
What is Johnsy’s illness? What can cure her, the medicine or the willingness to live?
What does the author notice one Sunday afternoon? What is his mother’s reaction? What does she do?
Bill Bryson says, “I am, in short, easily confused.” What examples has he given to justify this?
Has Lushkoff become a beggar by circumstance or by choice?
In the fair he wants many things. What are they? Why does he move on without waiting for an answer?
Is Lushkoff a willing worker? Why, then, does he agree to chop wood for Sergei?
What are the Guru’s words of wisdom? When does the disciple remember them?
When does he realise that he has lost his way? How have his anxiety and insecurity been described?
What does the swallow see when it flies over the city?
Why does the lost child lose interest in the things that he had wanted earlier?
What are the precious things mentioned in the story? Why are they precious?
Why do you think Bill Bryson’s wife says to the children, “Take the lids off the food for Daddy”?
Sergei says, “I am happy that my words have taken effect.” 5Why does he say so? Is he right in saying this?
How does Toto come to grandfather’s private zoo?
What havoc has the super cyclone wreaked in the life of the people of Orissa?