Name: Dale Class: 10.

The Five Boons of Life

MEANINGS

Pleasure – He sought pleasures in the

delights of youth. Pleasure was short-lived
and disappointing, vain and empty; and
each, departing.

Love - The man considered long, then

chose Love; tears that rose in the fairy's

eyes. Love, as sold he have paid a thousand

hours of grief. Out of my heart of hearts I

curse him.

Fame - The man reflected long,

then chose Fame; and the fairy,

sighing, went her way.

Wealth - which is power! How

blind he was! Curse all the
world's gifts, for mockeries and
gilded lies! And miscalled,
everyone. They are not gifts,

Death - He only can choose older and

dead.
Name: Dale Class: 10.3

6. What does the fairy represent in the beginning of the story?

Fairy means we will do in our life, It represents our original consciousness.
7. What does the fairy represent at the ending of the story?
On behalf of humanity and consciousness at the last moment.
8. What does the man represent in the entire story?
Like everybody, we birth on this world, Through self-selection to determine their own
direction, but some people in this process is bound to make mistakes, be eliminated from
society, like the men in the story
9. Which ‘boons’ do all people experience? What ‘boons’ do few people experience in life?
I don't think there's an answer to that question because Good things are not defined,
anything happens in your life, nobody decides, you have to have your own judgment about
what is good or bad
10. What is the difference between the word “chose” and “choose”? *Why does Mark
Twain interchangeably use these two words? (Literary Analysis of the author)
‘Chose’ means some thing was gone, but ‘Choose’ means somethings doing now.