Class 9- English -Beehive – Chapter 9
Chapter-9
I. Answer these questions.
“At last a sympathetic audience.”
(i) Who says this?
(ii) Why does he say it?
(iii) Is he sarcastic or serious?
(i) The speaker of the given line is Gerrard.
(ii) He says it as he is asked by the intruder to speak about himself.
(iii) He speaks the given dialogue sarcastically.
Why does the intruder choose Gerrard as the man whose identity he wants to take on?
The intruder chose Gerrard as the man whose identity he wants to take on because he is a kind of a mystery man. He phones his orders and sometimes goes away suddenly and come back just the same.
“I said it with bullets.”
(i) Who says this?
(ii) What does it mean?
(iii) Is it the truth? What is the speaker’s reason for saying this?
(i) Gerrard says the given line.
(ii) It means that when things went wrong, he had used his gun to shoot someone for his escape.
(iii) No, it is not the truth. The speaker says this to save himself from getting shot by the intruder.
What is Gerrard’s profession? Quote the parts of the play that support your answer.
Gerrard is a young playright at theatre. The fact that support this statement is that Gerrard has a bag in which different props are kept. These props are the part of the any of his play.
You’ll soon stop being smart.”
(i) Who says this?
(ii) Why does the speaker say it?
(iii) What according to the speaker will stop Gerrard from being smart?
(i) The intruder says the line.
(ii) The speaker says it to frighten Gerrard.
(iii) According to the intruder, Gerrard would stop being smart once he knew what was going to happen to him. The intruder’s plan was to kill Gerard and take over his identity. He felt that when Gerrard would know this, he would stop being smart and start getting scared.
“They can’t hang me twice.”
(i) Who says this?
(ii) Why does the speaker say it?
(i) The speaker of the given line is the intruder.
(ii) Since he is already being hunted for having killed someone else, murdering Gerrard won’t make any difference. Hence, he says that he cannot be hanged twice.
“A mystery I propose to explain.” What is the mystery the speaker proposes to explain?
The mystery that Gerrard proposed to explain was the story he made up to dodge the intruder and save his own life. The story was that Gerrard himself was a criminal like the intruder.
“This is your big surprise.”
(i) Where has this been said in the play?
(ii) What is the surprise?
(i) This statement has been said twice in the play. Once when the intruder is trying to scare Gerrard and the second time when Gerrard is explaining him
why he won’t kill him for a good reason.
(ii) The surprise in the first utterance of the statement is that the intruder expresses his intention to kill Gerrard. The surprise in the second utterance of the statement is that Gerrard explains him that he himself is acriminal on the run, which is why it won’t do any good to the intruder to kill him and steal his identity.