Chapter – 1

My Lost Dollar

1.The narrator hoped that Todd would

remember that he owed the narrator a dollar.

2.The narrator felt that Todd had forgotten

that he had borrowed anything from him
because he never reacted when the narrator
tried to remind him about it in different ways,
also he met him in the same friendly and
frank manner as always.

3.Todd wrote that the temperature was

nearly up to a hundred .

****4. The narrator suggested that they

take a taxi, hoping that Todd would
remember that he had borrowed money
from the narrator when he fell short of
money to pay for a taxi.

5.The narrator hoped that Todd would

remember that he was in debt to the
narrator just as Poland was in debt. The
narrator hoped Todd would remember
the fact that he owned the narrator a
dollar.

6.The narrator feels that he would not bother to pay back anything less
than a dollar that he might have ever borrowed to take a taxi to Bermuda.
****7. He asked him that because he thought that it would remind him that he
owed him a dollar.

8.He would like to start a movement called Back to honesty. It would start
to pay all the odd dollars that are borrowed in moments of expansion.

B. Reference to context

1.a. Him refers to Todd here.

b. He never mentions it and he is as warm and friendly as he
always was.
C. He had borrowed it when he was about to board a taxi on his
way to Bermuda. It was on the 8th of April.

2. a. He is Todd here.
b. This shows that the narrator feels that it was very easy for Todd to ask
for the money as though it was of no great consequence .
c. It shows that he was quite willing to give the dollar and was polite.
d. Yes, he did not think that he would get it back.

a. He was Todd. He mentioned that the temperature in Bermuda was

nearly a hundred degrees.
B. He was referring to the temperature in Bermuda.
c. The figure' hundred 'misled him.
d. He thought Todd was referring to the dollar.

C. Answer these questions

1.Now that he hasn't got his money back from Todd he is apprehension
about lending money. He feels he can never forget it if someone borrows
money from him. He wonders how people must be feeling in case he has
forgotten to return money he might borrowed from them. He says he
would like to return all the money he has borrowed.

2.The pain he feels due to the fact that Todd doesn't return his dollar makes
him feel like returning any money he might have borrowed.

***3. Todd was a casual man who did not worry about little things. He
borrowed money from the narrator without a thought and never thought of
returning it to him. He was forgetful. He was also quite dense as he didn't take
the hint each time the narrator tried to draw his attention to the fact that he
had borrowed a dollar from him. He was too caught up within himself to worry
about other people.

*****4. It is justified because the story is about the dollar that was lent and not
returned.(Based on this point write your own answers)

5.He went to pick him up from the station and also suggested that they take a

Taxi. He did this to remind Todd about the dollar he had borrowed when he
left for Bermuda and how he had borrowed it for a taxi.

6.The thought that pained him was he too might have borrowed money from
people and might have forgotten to return it. It pained him because he was
upset as Todd had not returned his dollar to him.

7.First of all, the narrator went to the railway station to receive Todd when he
returned from Bermuda. Todd had borrowed money when he had to take a taxi
when he left for Bermuda. The narrator suggested that they take a taxi once
Todd came back. He hoped the taxi would remind him about the borrowed
money. Then the narrator broached the subject of the American dollar by
asking if it is the circulation in Bermuda too. When Todd mentioned
disapprovingly how
Poland had defaulted in its debts, the narrator tried to remind him about
his dollar by asking Todd about the currency and whether the American
dollar was at par.

*****8. (Answers may vary)All logical responses are accepted.

Hints. The techniques the narrator uses to create humour in the story ●
the technique of word play for example:' My dollar has clean gone out
of his mind'. ● He merely said that the temperature was up to nearly a
hundred. The figure misled me for a moment.
● The technique of moralizing, for example I want to start a general
movement, Back to Honesty movement, for paying all these odd
dollars that are borrowed in moments of expansion.
● The technique of irony, for example: 'May I say that I do particularly
ask that no reader of this story will be careless enough to leave this
copy round where it might be seen by Major Todd.
****9. (Answers may vary)All appropriate answers are accepted.
Yes, the narrator was upset about the dollar. The narrator said that he would
remember all his life that Todd owed him a dollar. The pain he feels due to the
fact that Todd doesn't return his dollar makes him feel like returning any
money he might have borrowed.

****10. (All appropriate answers are accepted)

Describe what you would do if someone owes you something.
Describe how you would try to get back what they owed you.

Personal Narrative