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FLAMINGO
PROSE
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Chapter 3: Deep Water
The excerpt reveals how as a young boy. the narrator (Willam Douglas), nearly drowned in a
swimming pool He talks about his fear of water and how he finally overcame it later with sheer
determination and will power.
Chapter 4: The Rattrap
The story is set amidst the Swedish iron mines and is based on the concept that goodness in any
human being can be awakened through the power of understanding and love. The author has
beautifullsbrought out loneliness and the need for human beings to bond with each other.
Characters
The Peddler is a pettyand poor thief who sold rattraps for a living.
The Crofter is a simple trusting person who is robbed by the peddler.
The Iron master is an ardent law-abiding person and a strict taskmaster, who trusts the peddler
due to his daughter's persuasion.
Edla is the ironmaster's daughter - a kind and fairly compassionate lady.
Chapter 5: Indigo
This is an excerpt from Fischer's book The Life of Mahatma Gandhi. In 1942, the author visited
Gondhi tonarrate the incident which prompted his fight against the British. Rajkumar Shuklacame
to Gandhi withthe problem of exploitation that was happening in his district. Gandhi visited the
place andfreed the people of Champaran from tyranny.
Characters
Gandhi(The Father of the Nation), helps the peasants of Champaran to become self-reliant.
Rajkumar Shukla is poor peasant with a fairly weak physique whose resoluteness impresses
Gonahito work for empowering Champaran's peasants.
Chapter 6: Poets and Pancakes
Poets and Pancakes' is a story by the Tamil writer, Asokamitran. The whole chapter is a series
of humorous episodes. It starts with an account of a makeup routine at Gemini Studios in the
days gone by that especially included abrand called 'pancake' It is applied to all actors making
thern look hideously ugly. The writer continues to give funny accounts of the time spent in Gemini
Studios.
Characters
The Narrator:
He is a witty gnd humnorous author.
He narrates his experiences vwhen working at Gemini Studios under the Boss, S.S. Vasan.
Kothamangalam Subbi:
He is a talented and cheerful person.
He is second-in-cormnand at Gemini Studios.
The Office Boy:
He is afrustrated and chatty man.
He applies make-up to crowd actors for a living.
The Legal Adviser:
He is a practical and pragmatic lawyer.
He accidentally ends the career of a promising actress.
Chapter 7: The Interview
The Interview' is a chapter divided into two parts. The first part is an article by the English writer,
Christopher Silvester. It deals with the origins of the interview as a form of journalism. The second
port is an extract from the interview conducted by an experienced editor of the Hindu, Mukund
Padmanabhan of the professor and novelist, Umberto Eco.
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Poem 4: A Roadside Stand
This is a deeply moving poem, as it vividls depicts
influence simple rural folk. It shows the sad conditiontheof plight and the complex dynamics that
often fooled bu the cunning people who are insufficiently fed poor people, who are
connot bear their sadness, so he såmpathizesresponsible
for their current pathetiC state. The poet
deepls with the rural people.
Poem 5: Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
The poem illustrotes the poet's feminist concerns and
O womon goes through in a male
presents the incessant conflictsand struggles
chauvinistic society.
Aunt Jennifer is sumbolicof womnen all over the world,
who are victims of oppression at the hands
of the
potriorchu-driven sustem.
VISTAS
SUPPLEMENTARY
Chapter 1: The Third Level
The storu tokes uouto amysterious world,
somewhere between our unfulfilled desires, expectations.
ono dreonms The storsdeals with the curious
experience of Charley. One day. Charley reaches the
throlevel while takingthe subway for his home, but in
of New York's reality, there are only two levels of stations
Grand Central Railway Station.
The third level is actualls an
intersection of time and space, a journey back in time,
o ne norrotors imagination. It is seen as Charley's medium of escape from the something akin
3Qiy pressures of Ufe. hardships and
Characters
Chareyso3-year-old male and a daily subway commuter.
Louisa s horiey's wife. who is worried about her husband coming late.
Som s oreys psychiatrist. He serves as proof of the existence of the Third
erro Soor level at the Grand
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