TUTORIALEvolurion

OUR RUN AWAY KITE

1. Who are ‘We’ here?

2. What is the full name of the narrator?

The full name of the narrator is PhilippaLeete.

3. Who were in the family earlier?

4. Who are the new additions to the family?

5. How old are the siblings?

6. What happens to the harbour in winter?

In winter the harbour turns frozen in extreme cold.

7. Why does the narrator with her family come to the main land?

In winter the harbour turns frozen in extreme cold and so the family left the island and started to live in the main land till summer.

8. Why did the mainland people pity the narrator’s family?

The people of the main land pitied the narrator’s family as they had to spend a very lonesome life with no one else there.

9. Why was the pity of the mainland people funny to the narrator?

People of the mainland considered their life very lonesome and desolate. But interestingly the narrator found herself to be lucky as they would have none to argue with. So, their perception seemed funny to her.

10. What seemed ‘funny’ to the narrator? Why were they not unhappy for that?

That the people of mainland pitied the narrator’s family for their lonesome state in the island seemed funny to the narrator./…

11. What and with whom did the narrator play in the island?

The narrator her brother played different things with each-other in the island as they used to change their sports every year.

12. What puzzled the narrator and Claude? Why?

13. What did they wish to have? What probable reason did they guess behind this? What did they ask their father regarding this? What was the reply of their father? What was his (father’s) feeling then?

14. Describe the look of the harbour in summer. What did they do then?

In summer the harbour turns blue,calm and quiet with the succession of ripples rarely noticed then.

15. What was the hobby of the narrator and Claude before their cousins came?

16. How did the narrator and Claude use their kites while playing?

Claude and the narrator used to signal to each-other while playing ship-wrecked mariners.

17. How did they design the big kite?

18. What address did they write on their kite?

19. How was the big kite damaged? Why? What happened to the kite then?

One day while bringing the big kite, the narrator tripped and fell down. Her elbow went through the kite, creating a big hole. Thus the big kite damaged./…

20. What did they do to mend the kite? With what did they do so and how?

21. Where did they find it (paper to mend the kite)?

22. Why were they in a hurry to mend the kite?

23. How did the kite fly? Then what happened? What was Claude’s condition then?

24. How did the kite reach the mainland?

25. When did father receive a letter? What was his feeling after going through the letter?

26. When did the narrator’s father came back home?

27. How were the narrator and her brother christened?

28. Where did Aunt Esther live?

29. What happened when Aunt Esther saw the kite? Why?

30. Why did Aunt Esther write to the narrator?

Aunt Esther inferred the identity and location of the narrator from her old dated letter as their name and address were written on it. So, she wrote to her brother about her existence.

31. What step did the narrator’s father finally take to get the family together?

32. How does the narrator describe her Aunt and her cousins?

33. What does the narrator consider to be the best thing happened in her life?

In narrator’s view ‘the best thing’ is that they have relations now besides his father and brother.

WORD MEANINGS

On account of – Sorrowful-

Is frozen over- The harbour -

Mainland- Ripples-

Sail back- Plenty-

Pitied- Mariners-

Lonesome- Tinsel-

Perhaps- Patched up-