UNIT 1

UNIT 1

A visit of charity BY EUDORA WELLY

“A visit of Charity” is a short story by American author Eudora Welty. It centers on a fourteen -
year old Campfire Girl named Marian, who has to perform social service to earn points towards
her badges. She plan pay a short visit to local Nursing Home, not much about the people who
leave there, she intend leave quickly.

However, she soon gets pullet into a conversation with to embittered, Sarcastic old women
residents. Exploring the themes of aging, bitterness, the treatment of elderly, and the true
meaning of charity.

As Marian enters the home the smell in building is like the interior of a clock. When the nurse
tells Marian, that there are two in each room, Mariyan asks, "Two what? " The garrulaux old
woman is described here birdlike creature who plucks Marian's hat off with like a claw, while
old Addie has a " bunchy white forehead and red eyes like a Sheep", She even "bleats " when she
says, "Who -are -you? Marian feels as if she has been caught in a roffer's Cave, she cannot even
remember he own name.

The climax of the story occurs when it is discovered that it is old Addie's birthday. When the
roommate tells Marian that when she was a child she went to school. Addie lashes out in the
single long speech in the story.

When Marian gives over to Addie, she looks at her very closely from all sides. "as in dreams",
and she wonders about her as if "there was nothing else in the world to wonder about. It was the
first time that a thing had happened to Marian. When she has close the old woman how old she
is, Addie says "I won't tell and Whimpers like a sheep, like a little lamb.

In the last paragraph of the story, Marian has escaped a terrifying experience; when she jumps on
the bus, she takes a big bite out of the apple that she did, seemingly unaffected by her
nightmarish experience with the old woman.
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ANSWERS THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN ABOUT 50 TO 100 WORDS EACH

1 Why does Marian bring a potted plant with her to

the old ladies 'Home?
- Marian runs out of the Old Ladies' Home because she was scared and
felt that the old ladies were creepy. When she entered the room, they
already began to fight between each other, and she didn't know what to
do, so she ran out of the Old Ladies' Home, "She's crying!" she turned a
bright, burning face up to the first old woman."... "Marian jumped up and
moved toward the door. For the second time, the claw almost touched her
hair, but it was not quick enough."

2 Describe the character of the nurse

The theme of this story is that people's selfishness can blind them to the
needs of others. Within the short story of A Visit of Charity, Marian, a
young Campfire Girl, chooses to go visit and old woman at an elderly
home.
In the story, the nurse is cold, detached, and apathetic. She is not
especially friendly to visitors. It is clear that her indifference allows her
to maintain her emotional equilibrium in her line.

3 Describe the two old ladies Marian meets

Marian, a young Campfire Girl, reluctantly visits an “Old Ladies’ Home” to
gain points for her charity work. While there, she meets two old women, one
who chatters on in an obsequious way and another, old Addie, who, confined
to bed, resents the little girl’s visit as well as her own babbling roommate.
When Marian leaves the home, she retrieves an apple that she hid before
entering and takes a big bite out of it.

When Marian enters the room she is greeted by the old woman who has a
square smile, a bony face and a cough like a sheep's bleating.
Marian then notices Addie who is lying flat in her bed with a cap on, has a
bunchy white face and red eyes, and seems to be the older of the two women.
The personalities of the two are very different in that the old woman is very
polite and talkative, and Addie say minimal, but when she does speak, she
speaks with a distaste for everything.
The two seemed to have lived together for a long time as they know much
about each other. Addie seems to be sick on the day that Marian visits, and
the old woman states that it is Addie's birthday, though she will not admit it.

4 Describe the condition of their room

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ANSWERS THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN ABOUT 250 WORDS
EACH
1. Why does Marian hide the Apple?
Marian hides the apple because she wants to give the bare minimum in order to fulfill her
group’s charity requirement. She only brings a potted plant in order to increase her charity
points, and even thin, she seems to regret giving the flowers away.

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1.1.2 GRAMMAR - Non-finite Verb

Non-finite verbs do not work as the actual verbs in the formation of the sentence.
They have the forms of verbs but they do not work as them. They work as adjectives,
gerunds, and adverbs in the sentence.

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1.1.3 VOCABULARY
Simile AND metaphor
A simile (SIM-uh-lee) is a type of figurative language that describes something by comparing it
to something else with the words like or as.

A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn't literally
true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison.

The main difference between a simile and metaphor is that a simile uses the words "like" or
"as" to draw a comparison and a metaphor simply states the comparison without using "like" or
"as". An example of a simile is: She is as innocent as an angel. An example of a metaphor is:
She is an angel

1.1.4 SPELLING
USE OF ie AND el
Spelling is a set of conventions that regulate the way of using graphemes (writing system) to
represent a language in its written form

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1.1.5 PUNCHVATION
SEMICOLON

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1.1.6 CONVERSATION
ASK FOR INFORMATION

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1.1.7 Reading passage

Hyderabad city- The heart of Telangana

WORD
1.1.8 Writing –Note Making and Note
Taking
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1.1.9 SOFT SKILLS –TIME MANAGEMENT

WORD

1.1.10 VALU ORIENTATION

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UNIT 2
2.1 BENARES - ALDOUS HUXLEY

Aldous Huxley was a modern writer who was born in the year 1894 and died in the year 1963. He is a well-
known thinker and writer of modern times. He was a rationalist. He has how concern for the moral values
and the dread of the top sided development of science.  The present essay ‘Benares’ shows his rationalistic
approach in life.

The sun eclipse was about to take place on 14 th of January 1926. It was not to be seen by naked eyes. It was
visible from Benares. So Aldous Huxley came to observe it.

On that particular day the city of Benares, a pilgrim place, was crowded with a big populace. Millions of
people from all over the country come there to save the sun from being eaten up by a serpent. Huxley
observed the orthodox Brahmins with their chants and deeds on the crowded banks of the Ganges, the
sacred river of the dirty water. Men, women and children from all walks of life with utensils and new
clothes to be touched after the holy dip were carried in on head loads. Huxley observed the ocean of
ignorant mankind on the banks of the Ganga, the mother of civilization.

In the mid-noon six persons carried the princess in a palanquin.  A carpet was spread to the barge. The
princess in mask went to the river and got into a boat, which was decorated like Noah’s ark.  The boat
went into the middle of the stream. The curtains were opened and the princess was to bath away from her
poor sisters clamouring on the banks in the crowd.

Later the author, Aldous Huxley, came to the ghats on which he observed three dead bodies were
cremating on the pyres of wood. Their feet were stretched out of pyre like the poor man’s out of his little
bed.  The body was seen like in the torn out blanket.

The time of climax came in at last. The eclipse was to take place. Suddenly the Brahmins started sitting in
a line like cormorants chanting and singing. They were gazing tip of their nose to concentrate their
meditative sleep.  Huxley who was an unorthodox and a non-conformist western man clicked his camera.

Later the author felt extremely sorry for poor India when he came into the city of Benares packed with
beggars. He saw a sacred bull eating away the rice from one of the sleepy beggar. He was of the opinion
that animals are not intelligent and have no imagination but they are very happy. When the whole
mankind was engaged to influence gods for their benefit the bull came with timely care and ate away the
rice given to a beggar in charity.

Aldous Huxley regrets the religious ignorance of the Indians. He asks the Indians who were trying to save
the sun. Who will save India? Much of their energy is wasted in imbecile superstitions. He says India will
not be free unless they give up all their superstitions and try to realize their own state of life

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2.1.1 PRONUNCIATION
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2.1.2 GRAMMAR
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2.1.4 SPELLING
WORD
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2.1.5 PUNCTUATION
WORD
2.1.6 CONVERSATION –REQUEST
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2.1.7READING PASSAGE –BURRAKATHA
WORD
2.1.8 WRITING
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2.1.9 SOFT SKILLS – LEADERSHIP SKILLS
 WORD
2.1.10 VALUES ORIENTATION
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UNIT 3
POETRY

Stanza's Written in Dejection, Near Naples. - Perey Bysshe Shelley .

Analysis of Stanzas Written in Dejection,

near Naples
Stanza One 
The sun is warm, the sky is clear, 
The waves are dancing fast and bright, 
Blue isles and snowy mountains wear 
The purple noon’s transparent might, 
The breath of the moist earth is light, 
Around its unexpanded buds; 
Like many a voice of one delight, 
The winds, the birds, the ocean floods, 
The City’s voice itself, is soft like Solitude’s. 

Stanza Two
         I see the Deep’s untrampled floor 
With green and purple seaweeds strown; 
I see the waves upon the shore, 
Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown: 
I sit upon the sands alone,— 
The lightning of the noontide ocean 
Is flashing round me, and a tone 
Arises from its measured motion, 
How sweet! did any heart now share in my emotion. 

Stanza Three 
         Alas! I have nor hope nor health, 
Nor peace within nor calm around, 
Nor that content surpassing wealth 
The sage in meditation found, 
And walked with inward glory crowned— 
Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. 
Others I see whom these surround— 
Smiling they live, and call life pleasure; 
To me that cup has been dealt in another measure. 

Stanza Four
         Yet now despair itself is mild, 
Even as the winds and waters are; 
I could lie down like a tired child, 
And weep away the life of care 
Which I have borne and yet must bear, 
Till death like sleep might steal on me, 
And I might feel in the warm air 
My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea 
Breathe o’er my dying brain its last monotony. 

Stanza Five
         Some might lament that I were cold, 
As I, when this sweet day is gone, 
Which my lost heart, too soon grown old, 
Insults with this untimely moan; 
They might lament—for I am one 
Whom men love not,—and yet regret, 
Unlike this day, which, when the sun 
Shall on its stainless glory set, 
Will linger, though enjoyed, like joy in memory yet. 

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3.1.2 Grammar
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SPECTRUM PAGE NO 37

3.1.3 VOCAULARY

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3.1.4 PUCCTUATION
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3.1.5 READING PASSAGE- CULTURAL IDENTITY OF TELANGANA

WORD
3.1.5 WRITING
MADE EASY 135 TO 136
MADE EASY 138 TO 139
VGS 116 TO 118
3.1.6 SOFT SKILLS –STRESS MANAGEMENT
WORD
3.1.7 VALUE ORIENTATION

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PUNCTUATION
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3.4.1 READING PASSAGE

WORD

3.4.2 WRITING
MADE EASY 155 TO 157
3.4.3 SOFT SKILLS
WORD
3.4.5 VALUE ORIENTATION
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