RISING ABOVE TERROR

RISING ABOVE TERROR

(Author - Shabnam Banerjee Wahi)

DIFFICULT WORDS :-

1. Hues - colours

2. Silhouette-The dark shape or shadow of

something.

3. Regal- royal

4. Tranquillity - the quality or state of being calm.

5. Foreboding- A strong unpleasant feeling that

something very bad is going to happen soon.

6. Pent up - Strong feeling that is not expressed.

7. Transpired -happened

8. Transcend - Go beyond,Surpass.

9.Vivid - Splendour.

10. Splendour - Magnificent.

11. Meadows - A piece of grassland near river.

12.Paradise-Heaven.

13.Refugee - A person seeking

14. Attic- Party inside the roof of building.

15. Majestic - Showing impressive beauty.

16. Divine -Delightful

17. Creed -a set of beliefs or principles (religious)

that strongly influence somebody's life.

Complete the sentences :-

1. Children of service officers learn to stay with

their mothers as their father often had to stay in

sensitive areas leaving behind their family .

2. Two very strong antonyms with which the

narrator contrast the words peace and

tranquillity are doom and terror.

3. The atmosphere that the terrible gloom,the

spine-chilling silence and a deep sense of fear

is that of schools closing for days at a

stretch ,offices and market places being shut

down without any warnings and the curfew

would be declared making life difficult .

4.The families of service officers also suffer from becoming

soft targets for unleashing the pent up rage.

5.The narrator's mother showed great presence of mind by

showing her strength to pick the children up and taking

them towards the only link between the ground floor and

the first floor to seek shelter in the land lord's roof.

6. The narrator's prayer was answered because within

minutes the elderly couple come down the stairs to open

the door.

7.The metaphor in the phrases vultures hunting for prey

compares the disruptive forces to preying vultures .

8.We understand the narrator’s family belongs to a different

caste and creed from Shahina’s as in the end , the narrator

says that acts of kindness never to transcend

caste,creeds,religion and borders .

QUESTION and ANSWERS :-

Q1. What image do you form of the

narrator from the first paragraph of the

story ?

Ans.Adventurous

Q2. Pick two phrases from the second

paragraph which tell us that Kashmir is a

beautiful place.

Ans. Phrases ‘Paradise on Earth’ and the

‘the unusual hues of the sky and dusk’ tell

us that Kashmir is a beautiful place.

Q3. Which aspects of Kashmir does the narrator

appreciate in the third paragraph ?

Ans. Srinagar turned out to be far more beautiful than

the narrator had imagined it to be.The aspect that the

narrator appreciates in the third paragraph is the

beauty of Srinagar. She describes the sky at dusk

complementing the colours of the leaves ,the lanes

dotted with Chinar trees and the golden silhouette of

the shikara at dawn on the Dal,against the majestic

beauty of the snow capped Himalayas.

Q4.The narrator uses several adjectives to

describe the bungalow.What are they ?

Ans. The narrator uses several adjectives like ‘dreamy’,

‘sprawling’ , and ‘regal’ to describe the bungalow.

Q5. How would the narrator and her sister entertain

themselves ?

Ans. The narrator and her sister’s entertained themselves in

their garden by munching or delicious green apples and

clowning around.

Q6. Why does the narrator say that the elderly couple

was no less than divine help for her family ? Do you

think that there was a possibility of the couple not

helping the narrator’s family in the circumstances

described ?

Ans. The narrator says that the elderly couple was a divine

help for her and her family because they came in time and

helped them hide in their house before the men came in.

Yes,there was a possibility of the couple not helping the

narrator’s family in the circumstances.They could have been

sleeping and not heard them from the other side.They could

not have wanted to get involved in any trouble too.