BEGE-105 Solved Assignment 2024-25

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BEGE-105 Solved Assignment 2024-25

BACHELORS DEGREE PROGRAMME (BDP)
ELECTIVE COURSE IN ENGLISH
ASSIGNMENT
(For July 2024 and January 2025 Sessions)
BEGE-105 UNDERSTANDING PROSE

Elective Course in English
UNDERSTANDING PROSE (BEGE – 105)
Based on Blocks 1-7
Programme: BDP
Course Code: BEGE-105/2024-25
Maximum Marks: 100
Answer All Questions
1. Comment on the dominant variety of prose (narrative, expository or descriptive) present in each of the following passages. Write a brief critical appreciation of each passage in about 250 words each:

a) My brother and I carried our father into the hospital, stamping on the goat turds which were spread all over the floor. There was no doctor in the hospital. The Ward boy, after we bribed him ten rupees, said that a doctor might come in the evening. The doors to the hospital’s rooms were wide open. A few men had spread a newspaper on the ground and were sitting on it. One of them had an open wound on his leg. He invited us to sit with him. My brother and I lowered our father onto the newspaper sheets. Two little girls came and sat beside us; both had yellow eyes and skin. Jaundice it seemed. We kept adding newspapers to the ground and the line of diseased eyes, raw wounds and delirious mouths kept growing.

b) It was perfectly true that the house was made out of trees. It was a fair-sized but elderly shack, made out of poplar poles and chinked with mud. There was an upstairs, which was not so usual around here, with three bedrooms, one of which I was to share with Chris’s sister, Jeannie, who was slightly younger than I , a pallid-eyed girl who was either too shy to talk or who had nothing to say. I never discovered which, because I was so reticent with her myself, wanting to push her away, not to recognize her, and at the same time experiencing a shocked remorse at my own unacceptable feelings.

c) Theologians don’t much like it when we attempt to peel away the accretions of myth, history, dogma, and sacrament that cloud the origins of their chosen faith. When we seek common threads among the world’s spiritual doctrines, we may be chided for taking a cafeteria approach to religion: a little from this one, a little from that one, as if we were downloading only our favorite songs from the Internet in order to make up our own “Best of” CD It is true enough that some New Age belief systems do little more than dabble in devotion, backing off quickly whenever spiritual discipline becomes too incompatible with one’s lifestyle. One cannot really be a part-time Buddhist any more than a self-described Christian can purchase salvation with one hour a week in church. But the irrefutable truth is that at the heart of each of the great religious traditions are three small words: God is one. (10×3=30)

2. The story ‘Misery’ by Chekhov deals with human insensitivity to other peoples’ grief. Do you agree? Give a reasoned answer. (10)
3. Write a detailed note on The Binding Vine as a Stream of Consciousness novel. (10)
4. Comment on how Lamb has used humour in his essay “ A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig”, to make the essay entertaining. Give examples from the text wherever necessary. (10)
5. How does Bill Aitkin comment upon the cultural divide between the North and South? Give a reasoned answer. (10)
6. Write a note on how Gandhi spent his days in Calcutta and his impression of Burma as seen in his autobiography. (10)
7. What do we get to know about the Holocaust from Anne Frank’s diary? (10)
8. Laurence was committed to social causes. Write a note on her commitment to nuclear disarmament as seen in her speech “My Final Hour.” (10)

Submission: The completed assignment should be sent to the Coordinator of the Study Centre allotted to you by 31st March 2024 (For July, 2023 Session) and 30th September, 2024 (For January, 2024 Session). Please read the instructions given in your Programme Guide.

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