Section - Ill :
Rapid Reading and Composition
'Q.5 (A) Read the following extract and do the activities that follow : 4
My brother' and I were transported in a cattle car to Germany..We arrived at the Buchenwald concentration camp one night weeks later and were led into a crowded barrack. The next day, we were issued uniforms and identification
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"Don't call me Herman anymore." I said to my brother. "Call mé 94983."
I was put to work in the cmnp's crematorium, loading the dead into a hand-cranked elevator.
I, too, felt dead. Hardened, I had become å,number.
Soon my brothers and I were sent to Schlieben, one of Buchenwald's sub-camps near Berlin.
One morning I thought I heard my mother's voice. "Son", she said softly but clearly, "I am going to send you an angel." Then I woke up. Justa dream. A beautiful dream.
But in this place there could be no angels. There was only work. And hunger. And fear. A couple of days later, I was walking around the gamp, around the barracks, near the barbed-wire fence where the guards could not easily see. I was alone.
Al) Global understanding. 2
The plot of the extract deals with the suffering of the narrator. Write two statements from the extract that justifies it.
1)
2)
Answer-
1)I was put to work in the cmnp's crematorium, loading the dead into a hand-cranked elevator.
2) But in this place there could be no angels. There was only work. And hunger. And fear.
A2) Converting the extract into dialogue. 2
Convert the above extract into imaginary dialogue between Harman and his bother.
Answer-
Harman : Brother tomorrow we were transported in the cattle car to Germany.
Brother : Oh! It means we can ready to suffer more.
Harman : Don't afraid
my brother every thing will ok soon.
Brother :But how we feel happiness place like this,here only are hunger and fear.
Harman : Angel will come and solve our problems. Yesterday mother told me in my dream ," I will send you Angel"
Brother : Oh really!
Harman : yes!
Brother : Thanks God.
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