The Neighbours Question Answer Class 12 By-Tom Winton

 

The Neighbours Question Answer Class 12 By-Tom Winton 

The Neighbours   

Answer the following questions.

a. Describe how the young couple's nouse looked like.

Ans= The couple is the main characters of this story "The Neighbours" written by Tom Winton. Even though their home was tiny, it had the appearance of a beautiful cottage due to the high ceilings and paned windows that were on the walls. Their house was not that luxurious or of High-standard but was perfectly comfortable to live a life as a normal person.

b. How did the young couple recognize their neighbours in the beginning of their arrival? 

The young couple recognized their neighbours as uncivilized and annoying people in the beginn of their arrival from various odd activities that they witnessed. People in their surrounding used scream, quarrel, make unnecessary noises. They also lack proper sanitation. They used to c about their dog. They used to interfere with their household activities. All these things made the have a negative impression about their neighbourhood in the beginning of their arrival. 

c. How did the neighbours assist the young couple in the kitchen garden? 

Neighbours helped them both orally and physically in their kitchen garden. Orally, they gave the some advice that was required to have proper benefits from gardening. They approached the we area and offered and advised them the ideas for spacing, hilling and covering the vegetables they h planted. They provided them with some seeds and plants of vegetables as well. Thus, they helped young couple in the kitchen garden.

d. Why were the people in the neighbourhood shocked at the role of the young man and wife in their family?

The people in the neighbours were shocked by the actions of a young couple which was new them. They were surprised to see that the young couple stayed at home and took care of domes works, while his wife worked at a hospital. It was frowned upon in the neighbourhood for men to at home wild women worked outside.

e. How did the neighbours respond when they learned about the woman's pregnancy? 

= The neighbour's reacted to the woman's pregnancy with grace and politeness. They began smiling at the young couple all the time and showing a lot of concern for the young lady. They did all the could to help her in different ways. They gave her numerous presents, counsel, and attention connection with her pregnancy. Neighbours showed their joy and happiness through variou activities. Some people started offering them presents, hand-knitted sweaters, gloves, caps, some women started advising them baby names, some started guessing the child whether it will be a boy or a girl. From all these, we can conclude that the people in the neighbourhood were very happy learn about the woman's pregnancy.

f. Why did the young man begin to cry at the end of the story? 

= At the end of the story, the young man cried, realizing his neighbour's concern, care, and affection When he found people clapping hands for his newly born kid, he couldn't conceal his feelings. H cried with joy at his neighbours' happiness. His view of his neighbours changed. He was able understand the concept of interpersonal interactions.

g. Why did the author not characterize the persons in the story with proper names? 

The author did not give the characters a proper name or identity because he wanted to represen individuals from various cultures and languages living together in peace. The author wants the reader to get influenced or inspired from the story by characterizing the persons of the story withou finite names. Second reason could be, Tim may not want his readers to get too involved in the characters, rather feel the way people interact with each other in a diversified community.