The Nobody

a) Where does Mr Nobody do his mischief?

He has fought for independence.

b) According to the poem, who has seen Mr Nobody?

No one has seen Mr Nobody.

c) What does the word them in the last stanza refer to?
The papers

d) What lesson have you learnt from this poem? Give two lessons.
I have learnt that we must not blame others for our own faults or
mistake. I have also learnt that we are responsible for keeping our home
neat and dirty.
 How I Met Myself

The main theme of the novel How I Met Myself is on the idea of the
‘doppelganger’. It means ‘double walker’ or a ghostly double of a person. This
ghost or spirit looks exactly like its human friend. It appears to its friends in
real life or in dreams to warn him or her of danger.

John Taylor is a British computer specialist working in Hungary. He is married

to a Hungarian, Andrea, and they have a little baby daughter, Kati. One
evening, while John Taylor was walking home after work, a young man looking
exactly like him dashed out of a ground-floor room in the Felca utca flats. The
young man knocked into John Taylor, causing him to fall to the ground. This
incident occurs again and again in Taylor’s dreams. It makes him unable to
sleep well. His relationship with Andrea is strained as John Taylor is not able to
live a cheerful and normal family life.

John Taylor does some deep research on the topic and finds that his
doppelganger was a Hungarian man named Janos Szabo who lived during
World War II and died in the Hungarian rebellion of 1955. Janos had a wife and
child who were also named Andrea and Kati. John Taylor was convinced that
his doppelganger, Szabo was warning him about some danger to his wufe and
child. Finally, it is the doppelganger who saves Andrea and Kati from being
killed in a terriable gas explosion.