Oru Manushyan

 Question 1. 

Describe the people and the place where the incident took place.

Answer:
The incident took place in quite a big city in the valley of a mountain, some thousand five hundred miles away from the narrator’s home. The inhabitants of the city had never been known for the quality of mercy. People there were cruel and murder, robbery, and pick-pocketing were their daily habits. Traditionally, they were professional soldiers. Some of them lent out money on interest, some were watchmen in banks, mills and in industries. They would do anything for money, even commit murder.

Question 2.
What was the routine of the narrator in the city?
Answer:
The narrator would wake up daily at 4 pm to save on the expense of drinking his morning tea or eating the noon meal. He used to go on the streets to eat something in restaurants and wander around until 9.00 pm. He would return to his room and conduct tuitions for migrant labourers from 9.30 pm to 11.00 pm. He taught English to them not to a great extent, but only sufficient to write addresses in English. This was the narrator’s daily routine.

Question 3.
Give an account of the embarrassing experience of the narrator at the restaurant.
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Question 4.
A stranger saved the day for the narrator. How?
Answer:
Once, the narrator went to a restaurant with fourteen rupees in his wallet kept in the pocket and ate a full meal consisting of chapatis and meat curry. He drank tea. The bill was eleven annas. He searched his pocket to pay the bill, but was shocked that his wallet was not in his pocket and some one had stolen it.

When he said the same to the owner, the owner caught him by the lapels and ordered him to pay up. But as he did not have any money , he offered to keep his coat there and later would bring some money and claim the coat. But the owner asked him to take off all his clothes. When he was removing them with great humiliation, a stranger came and helped the narrator by paying his bill.