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Teddy Hefley looked forward to meet the new guests of the Hall’s when he entered the parlour to repair the clock. However, the strange man responded in a cold manner watching the clock-jobber constantly and never opening his mouth once. Henfrey deliberately tried to work slowly and prolong his stay in the room hoping to get into some sort of conservation with the strange man. The stranger’s constant gaze and absolute silence started getting on Hefley nerves. Still he tried to initiate a formal conversation by commenting on the biting cold weather. The stranger snubbed him at once and asked him to finish his work fast without any ‘humbugging’ (cheating).Teddy henfrey was left with no choice but to finish his work immediately and leave. However, he was in very bad mood when he left the room. Sleep that night. Her sleep was interrupted by strange dreams of huge white turnip-like heads with enormous eyes at the end of interminable heads haunting her. She was a sensible woman and so she tried to regain peace of mind by making a conscious effort to keep such thoughts away.

No, one can’t define the themes explored in Tamil literature. There is not a facet of human experience that is not explored and illuminated by Tamil literature.

“Tirukkural” is the great Tamil work which speaks volumes on ethics.

Earliest Tamil inscriptions are the evidences which support the finding of the oldest Tamil work.

Tholkappiyam is the oldest work in Tamil. It dates back to 200 BCE.

The other classical languages mentioned by the author are viz. Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Chinese, Persian and Arabic.

Mahendra calls ghosts or spirits a figment of the imagination because Iswaran informed him that they were living on a burial site and kept narrating to him stories of various ghosts he himself had encountered. On one full-moon night, Mahendra was woken up from his sleep by a low moan close to his window. At first, he thought that it was a cat prowling around for mice. But the sound was too deep and guttural for a cat.

He resisted looking outside as he did not want to witness a sight that might stop his heartbeat. But the crying became louder and less subtle. He could not resist the temptation anymore. Lowering himself to the level of the windowsill he looked out at the white sheet of moonlight outside. There, not too far away, was a dark cloudy form clutching a bundle. He broke into a cold sweat and fell back on the pillow, panting.

Driven by hunger, the stranger opened the door of his room at midday after staying inside for a good number of hours. He immediately asked for Mrs. Hall. The lady was in a fierce mood, not only because she found her mother’s favorite chair to be haunted but also because Hall had been asked by the unsettled bill. The stranger demanded an explanation for his missing breakfast and meal. Instead of replying, Mrs. Hall demanded that her bill be settled first. The stranger reasoned that he had already told her that he was without money and he would settle the bill three days later after he received a remittance. But when he found Mrs. Hall to be adamant, he told that he had found some money in his pocket. Mrs. Hall’s suspicion was aroused and she told him point-blank that she was well –aware of the source from which he had got the money. She also asked him to explain how he got into the house in the morning without using the door and what had he done to her furniture which seemed to be haunted. Totally cornered, the stranger had no choice but to reveal the secret of his invisibility. Acutely agitated, he simply plucked off his artificial nose, removed his whiskers. In the absence of disguise, he stood headless which left Mrs. Hall and others present absolutely dumbfounded.

Teddy Henfrey was received gladly by Mrs. Hall when he visited her bar. She was all the more happy to see him carrying his tool-bag. Actually, his arrival gave her the brilliant idea of entering the guest’s room on the pretext of getting the parlour clock repaired. Hence the clock-jobber was very well welcomed by the lady.

However, when he visited the guest’s room, he missed the warmth that he had experienced earlier in the bar. After a cold ‘good morning ‘the stranger silently started at Teddy working at the clock. In an attempt to break the silence of the room Teddy tried to get into some sort of conservation with the guest. The Strange man however snubbed him curtly. Rather, he rebuked Teddy for prolonging the job that needed just fixing of the hour hand on the axel. Embarrassed by the snubbing, Henfrey finished the work quickly and left the room.

The halls were extremely scared, the sight of different objects flying all over the guest parlour. Uncertain about what to do under the circumstances, they sent for Mr. Sandy wadgers, the blacksmith, who had the reputation of being knowledgeable and resourceful. The halls badly needed some moral support at this point of time. Moreover, they looked forward to get some sane advice from this man in whose wisdom they had a lot of faith. In addition to this, Mr. Wager lived just across the lane, so it was easy to approach him. He could have reached them the earliest. Hence they sent Millie to call him. Mr. wager reached the inn at once and listened carefully to the whole story as expected from a good neighbor who had been approached for help. Employing all his wisdom and knowledge in this regard, he concluded for the welfare of halls, he suggested that the evil should be warded off at once. This, he said, could be done effectively by using a horseshoe. As a blacksmith, this was perhaps the best he could think of.

However, he did not go to the parlour to check things for himself even when the halls wanted him to and he preferred to talk in the passage itself.

On their way to the stranger’s room from the cellar, both Mr. and Mrs. Hall vaguely heard the front door open and shut. However, they didn’t mention the fact to each other. They did hear someone sneeze on the staircase but Mr. and Mrs. Hall both thought that the other was sneezing; hence both of them ignored it.

In the room, feeling the pillow and the bed clothes, Mrs. Hall declared confidently that bed must have been left about an hour ago. As the couple was discussing the matter, the bed clothes suddenly gathered themselves together and moved over the bottom rail of the bed. Immediately after, the stranger’s hat flung itself against Mrs. Hall’s face. The sponge from the washstand followed the hat. Then the chair went up in the air and came charging at Mrs. Hall

The poor lady screamed and turned her back towards the chair. Immediately after, she and hall were pushed out of the room. While the objects were flinging themselves, a vicious laughter, resembling that of the stranger, was heard. The shock was so violent that Mrs. Hall fell fainting into her husband’s arms.

Mrs. Hall’s eccentric guest did not leave his room all day long. He also discourages Mrs Hall’s entry into his room. The lady was. Finding it to be very odd.Curiostiy was killing her and she was looking for some valid excuse to enter her guest’s room. Hence when Teddy henfrey, the clock –jobber, visited her bar, Mrs. Hall Thought it to be a good opportunity to visit the guest’s room on the pretext of getting the parlour clock repaired.

Her guest permitted this interference because it was going to be of some advantage to him, too. Although he did not hesitate to express his displeasure at the intrusion still he allowed Teddy to mend the clock.Thus, Mrs.Hall was successful in entering the strange man’s room with assistance from teddy Henfrey and without facing any objection from her guest.

Over breakfast, Griffin begins to tell Kemp at length how he became invisible. He had been a medical student, but had dropped medicine and taken up physics. Griffin was a medical student at the same time as Kemp, but Griffin switched to physics because he was interested in light. We also learn that, after leaving London seven years previously, he earned a living and had access to experimental resources as a demonstrator in a college in Chesilstowe. He came up with a loose theory for how to make objects invisible, but needed to figure out a method to actually do it.

He discovered a formula of pigments that lowers the refractive index of a substance, allowing light to pass through it rather than being reflected or refracted. After experimenting with pigments for three years, he came upon the secret whereby animal tissue could be rendered transparent. He was continuously trying to hide his work from another professor. He thought that his professor Mr. Oliver might take the credit for Griffin's published theory.

Many people had come to the Tap to enjoy drinks on whit Monday when they heard Huxter’s cry to stop the thief. Driven by curiosity, everybody came out to the street to help Huxter catch the culprit. People already down the street stood astonished and some of them came running to join the group that was chasing the thief. A terrible commotion was created and there was utter disorder. Amidst a hullabaloo, people tumbled, tripped and fell over each other. Most of them were obstructed by some invisible force. They ran helter-skelter in confusion. It was clear that the thief had to be overpowered but in absence of a clear chase-plan things went haywire. This commotion proved to be advantageous for Marvel who found enough time to escape while the mob following him jostled each other. As the people tried to comprehend the invisible hands hitting them, Marvel moved very fast through the lenes going as far as possible from capture. The internal maze of the villagers thus helped him to dodge those who were chasing him.

Fireside was quite perplexed regarding the strange guest of the Halls. He met teddy Henry at the little beer-shop of Aping Hanger Late in the afternoon of the day when his when his dog had bitten the stranger. He told Henry that the man whom his dog had bitten was black. At least his legs seemed so because he saw nothing but blackness through the trouserpiece and glove torn by his dog. He expected to see a sort of pink skin to show but there was nothing except blackness which was as black as his hat. At this Henry remarked that it was altogether a ‘rummy case’ because his nose after all was pink as paint. Fearenside speculated that the man must be a piebald with black and white patches like a half-bred horse. Perhaps the two colors, instead of mixing evenly, had come off patchy. Such a thing had never been heard of before and was thus termed as a ‘rummy case’.

Makar’s disclosure would have given the police the chance to arrest him and convict him. So, he did not disclose his guilt.

Tamil Constitutes only literary tradition indigenous to India that is not derived from Sanskrit. Indeed, its literature arose before the influence of Sanskrit become strong in the south. So it is qualitatively different from anything we have in Sanskrit or other Indian languages.

Aksionov’s wife came to visit him. She informed that her petition for clemency had been turned down. She asked him if he had done it. Realizing that his wife also suspected him, Aksionov gave up sending petitions to the Tsar.

Mrs. Hall was a meticulous person who killed to keep her inn neat and oerderly.Her guest, on the other hand, was diagonally opposite. He was clumsy and careless. Hence there were a number of’skirmishes’between her and the guest over the mess that he had been piling up in the parlour. Whether he made a stain on the table cloth or he littered her carpet with straw or he messed up to the room with broken glass, he wouldn’t listen to the hostess’ complaint. Every time he silenced her by asking her to put the damage in the bill.

He found it convenient to make liberal monetary offers because it satisfied his hostless’bussiness interests and it also suited his easy –going habits. His mind was always preoccupied with better things than the idea of cleanliness. Hence, he wanted to avoid being worried by the lady over trifles. Thus the arrangements suited both Mrs. Hall who didn’t mind any mess as long as she was being compensated for it and also the stranger who could do as he pleased without being bothered.

It being a whit Monday, the village was in a festive mood. Mrs. Hall expected a brisk business when both she and her husband were required to put in a lot of time to attend to the customers at the bar. However, when she saw Henfrey and Hall close to the guest parlour trying to overhear what was going inside, she got annoyed. She went up to the two men and chided her husband for such an irresponsible behaviour. Hall tried his best to make her understand the urgency of situation but his efforts proved futile. Crest-fallen, both the gentlemen had to withdraw to the bar. The episode reveals Mrs. Hall’s dominating nature. She had little faith in the capabilities of her husband and she considered her own business sense and efficiency to be superior to that of Hall’s. Not only that, she trusted Henry’s intelligence much more than that of her husband because she listened to the entire account from Hefley instead of Hall. One also feels that there is an element of over-confidence in the lady.

H.G.wells is absolutely justified in calling Mrs. Hall’s guest’ A strange man’ in the first chapter. The things that made him strange included his appearance which was far from that of a normal person. his big blue spectacles with sidelights, head swathed in bandages and his thick black hair peeing from there made him peculiar .shiny pink nose stood out as a prominent feature of his otherwise nondescript fac. His body from behind a language too, was unusual for he spoke from behind a table napkin. He smoked a pipe with the lower part of his jaw securely wrapped with a silk muffler. All this definitely made him strange and abnormal. His insistence on not allowing Mrs. Hall to take away his wet coat and hat for drying also made his behaviour questionable. In addition, his disinclination to get also to get into any sort of conservation with his inn-keeper also lent an air of eccentricity of his personality. His curt and concise remarks to cut short Mrs. Hall’s narration of the story about her sister’s son’s accident sounded equally strange. Hence, H.G.Wells has appropriately termed Mrs. Hall’s guest as’ A strange man’.

Mrs. Hall was indeed happy to have a guest for her inn during the business period of winter time. She considered it to be an unheard of piece of luck. On top of it ,the guest came to stay there did not handle the peak season price quoted by her. hence ,the lady was very keen to prove that good fortune favour was not ill placed. Therefore, he tried to make her guest very comfortable right from the beginning exhibiting her excellent hospitality skill; she first lit him a nice fire to relieve him of the biting cold of the wintry February. She then processed to prepare him a meal with her own hands. She offered to take away his wet clothes for drying, but when the gentleman refused to part with them, she didn’t pester him later on, when the stranger removed the clothes she took them to dry expect for the hat as was commanded by him.

Now and then, to enter into polite conversation with him but when he respectively showed his reluctance, Miss Hall did not give expression to her irritation, although she felt snubbed. When stranger expressed eagerness to get his luggage from Bramblehurst station at the earliest, she assured him politely that it could not to be got earlier than the following day.

She fulfilled promptly even his small requirements like matches to light his pipe. Thus, Mrs. Hall’s excellent hospitality skills helped her to prove herself worthy of her good fortune.

I ping was a very small village which hardly even saw any visitors during the winter. It was a very lean period for business. Mrs. Hall, the inn keeper of the “coach and Horses”, was therefore elated to have a guest at her inn. His arrival was a pleasant surprise. However, she quoted the peak season prise for boarding and lodging because as a shrewd business woman she expected the man to haggle surprisingly, he agreed to her term at once and placed a couple of sovereigns as advance . This was indeed Mrs. Hall’s good fortune. But, apart from being a shrewd business woman, She was also conscientious and efficient. She did not let any expression of delight surface and proceeded promptly to give her guest a perfect service and a very comfortable stay in her inn. She was keen to deliver full worth of the money that the stranger he was spending. The episode reveals the lady’s professionalism and her will to carry out the responsibility as a good hostess.

Mrs. Hall, who was apparently the closest to the stranger, defended him while other people in the village had a negative attitude towards him. However, she too got often into an argument with him on account of domestic indiscipline. Her husband Hall had already a strong dislike for the guest and he wanted to get rid him as early as possible. Despite his dislike, Hall did not have any say in the matter because Mrs. Hall wanted to retain the guest for his punctuality in settling bills. The weird appearance and eccentric behaviour of this man earned him the displeasure of everyone. Almost all the villagers had a story behind their dislike for him. Many thought that he was a criminal trying to conceal himself behind bandages to escape justice. Others thought him to be an Anarchist busy preparing explosives. Some took him to be a freak who could make a lot of money by showing himself at the village fair. Some brushed him aside as a lunatic. The woman folk believed that there was something supernatural about him. People made fun of him and the children teased him as ‘Bogey Man’ Thus, with the exception of Mrs. Hall No one in the village had any sympathy for the strange man. Their inability to discover the truth about him led to speculation and rumors.

There were several reasons that resulted in Cuss’s keenness to see the stranger. Firstly, the stranger’s reputation of being an ‘experimental investigator’ aroused Cuss’s curiosity. As the general practitioner of Iping, he felt there must be something akin between the of them. Secondly, when people all over Iping had nothing but the stranger to talk about, Cuss felt lift out because seeing hin, Therefore, he wished to accomplish this task at the earliest.

Apart from all these reasons, Cuss had heard about the countless bottles in the stranger’s room. He wondered whether these bottles outnumbered the stranger’s that he possessed at his clinic.the description of the stranger’s bandaged head also aroused his professional interest. Hence, Cuss Eagerly awaited the opportunity of seeing him and he started looking some valid excuse that would lead to this meeting.

Customer : Good evening sir.

Salesman : Good evening. What shall I do for you?

Customer : We bought a Smart TV last week. It is not working properly.

Salesman : May be the problem is with your dish antenna or cable connection.

Customer : No, the fault is only with the TV.

Salesman : Please leave your address and phone number. I will send the TV mechanic in half an hour. 

Customer : Thanks.

The Governor of the Siberian jail believed that Aksionov was a truthful old man.

Miss Sullivan comes across as a brilliant teacher, who had immense patience and compassion to touch the heart of the wild, young girl imprisoned in a world that was dark and silent. It was her expertise, patience and love that helped Helen learn everything she knew and understood about the world. She was not only Helen’s teacher but also a friend for nearly fifty years. Helen calls it her ‘soul’s birthday’, the day Anne Sullivan came to her. Initially, Helen hit, pinched and kicked her teacher, even knocking out one of her teeth. But through patience and firm consistency, Anne finally won the child’s heart. She seemed to have dedicated her life to Helen’s well-being and never got distracted from the purpose of making Helen see the world through her eyes. Anne remained with Helen until her death. She came across as an exceptional individual, selflessly dedicated towards the education of her ward.

The weird appearance and eccentric behavior of Mrs. Hall’s guest earned him the displeasure of everyone. Mystery shrouded his background, his profession and his purpose of coming to Iping. People went around trying to gather information about this mysterious stranger.

Mrs. Hall, who was apparently closest to him, was least interested in getting rid of such a well-paying guest. So, she spoke in his defense and told people that by profession he was an ‘experimental investigator’ who kept himself occupied in conducting scientific experiments. She also stood up for him when people questioned regarding his weird appearance, she explained that the poor man had gone through a nasty accident that had temporarily discolored his face and hands. This, she explained, necessitated the constant use of gloves, bandages and enormous goggles. She added that being a sensitive person, he tried to avoid the scrutinizing looks of the people around him and did not venture outdoors without concealing his face.

The strong support of Mrs. Hall for the stranger showed that she was earnestly performing her duty as his hostess. Although her decision to retain him as her guest was influenced by the good

Aksionov’s fellow prisoners respected him and called him “grandfather” and “The saint”. When they wanted to petition to the prison authorities about anything, Aksionov was their spokesman. He settled their quarrels too in a just manner.

He wanted Hallock to write a supernatural story filled with horror, and something which the public wanted.

Value Points :

Write’s inspiration bureau was formed by Helen and other ghosts to help the writers by giving them plot to write stories. They would inspire writers whose mind was soft enough to accept ideas.

Detailed Answer :

The Writer’s Inspiration Bureau’ was formed by Helen and other ghosts. It was an organization which helped people who used Ouija Boards to write ghost stories. It is used to help the writers by giving them plot to write stories. The members of the Bureau would inspire writer whose mind was soft enough to accept ideas.

An Ouija Board is a board on which are marked letters of the Alphabet. Answers to questions are spelt out by a pointer or by a glass held by the finger-tips of the participants. An Ouija board is supposedly worked by spiritual forces who come out with the solutions of a problem.  

Value Points : 

To warn him, would discontinue help; to tell him that they were going on strike, troubled by Ouija Board users; to tell him to stop his friends and family from using the Ouija Boards.

Detailed Answer 

The ghost of Helen came to warn John Hallock that they would discontinue all the help in writing stories as all the ghosts were going on a strike. They were troubled by Ouija board users who called upon ghosts all the time to answer their question. She needed rest and asked John Hallock to stop his friends and family from using the Ouija Boards by exerting his influence.

Value Points : 

To tell him about the strike and to tell him to discourage the use of Ouija boards disappointment on knowing that the stories were not his original ideas.

Detailed Answer :

The ghost of Helen came to warn John Hallock that they would discontinue all the help in writing stories as all the ghosts were going on strike. They were troubled by Ouija Board users who called upon ghosts all the time to answer their questions. She needed rest and asked John Hallock to stop his friends and family from using the Ouija Board by exerting his influence. John Hallock was disappointed as he realized that the stories written by him were not his original idea. He had been helped by Helen in writing those stories.

Value Points :

Scared of ‘woodoo’ - did not like Ouija boards - Lavinia and her husband said that they would burn the boards themselves. promised they would not use Ouija boards

Detailed Answer :

Gladolia was narrator’s cook. She decided to leave her job at the Hallocks. She was fed up and scared of Ouija boards and woodoo. She was scared of ghosts and spirits in the house. She changed her mind because they promised that they would not use Ouija boards.

Lavinia bought an Ouija board because it was at a bargain sale. She found it to be the duckiest and darlingest thing and couldn’t resist to buy it. Hallock asked her to exchange it for something else. He got scared of the upcoming danger, of the anger of the ghost, Helen. Secondly John was protective of Lavinia and did not want her to get into any kind of trouble.

Nobody else dared to expose him. Aksionov found no point in doing so. As there was no evidence’to nail him, Semyonich went unpunished.

Aksionov knew if he tells the authorities, they would probably flog the life out of Semyonich. Besides what good will come out of getting him punished. Let him pay for his sins himself.

The rider was mortally wounded. He kept his lips tight to prevent blood from flowing out.

Napoleon’s eyes softened like a mother eagle who has mixed feelings about the bravery of the eaglet and grief on the mortal injuries sustained by it during the fight with a tougher foe. He became sad because the boy-soldier was mortally wounded.

Soon after the boy disclosed the conquest of Ratisbon and his glorious role in perching the French flag, Napoleon found that the boy was wounded.

Napoleon’s emotions started soaring up again on hearing the news of victory.

The rider had planted the French flag at the Market place in Ratisbon.

Value Points :

Lavinia faced the ghost bravely. She thought that Hallock was hiding some woman in the room. On realizing that it was only the ghost of a woman, she felt great relief. She gave a broad, satisfied smile. She fell forgivingly into Hallock’s arms.

Detailed Answer :

Lavinia suspected that her husband having an affair with a woman named Helen. When she came to see him for the last time, she thought that he was hiding some woman in the room. Prepared for the worst she felt relieved on realizing that it was only the ghost. She gave a broad satisfied smile and then she fell forgivingly into Hallock’s arms.

Lavinia faced the ghost bravely. She thought that Hallock was hiding some woman in the room. On realizing that it was only the ghost of a woman, she felt great relief. She gave a broad smile. She fell forgivingly into Hallock’s arm.

Lavinia, Mrs. John, suspected her husband of affair with a lady called Helen. He received calls from Helen frequently. This aroused her suspicions and she decided to leave the house and go to her grandmother’s house.

Value Points :

Lavinia hosted an Ouija Board party, all the boards spelt out ‘traitor’ pointing towards Hallock by indicating ‘Ask Him’, suspected him of infidelity, marriage on the verge of a break-up, realized Helen was not a real person, only a spirit, Hallock could not be having an affair with a ghost.

Detailed Answer :

Lavinia hosted an Ouija Board party to which she invited all the members of her book club. Since one of the members was absent she called John Hallock to be the partner of Laura Hinkle. The moment Laura Hinkle started asking the Ouija Board some questions, all the boards spelt out ‘traitor’ pointing towards Hallock by indicating ‘Ask him’. Lavinia was informed of this by Laura and she suspected her husband of infidelity. After the party she went to his room and informed him that she was leaving the house and that her lawyer would talk to him later. Their marriage was on the verge of a break-up. At that moment, she noticed Helen’s presence in the room. She realized that Helen was not a real person. It was only a spirit and immediately concluded to herself that Hallock could not be having an affair with a ghost. Thus, she got rid of her superstitious belief in Ouija Boards and told her cook to throw them in fire.

One day Mrs. Lavinia Hallock went to the market and bought an Ouija Board which she got cheap because it was in the bargain sale. She was going to keep it for a theme party with her guests, without considering the consequences of troubling the ghosts and the spirits. She did this to impress her friends. But nowadays people consider fashion as an important fancy in their lives. They use fashion to express their feelings by what they wear. Fashion is considered as a form of recognition in society for keeping pace with the latest trends. Fashion has also become a means of superiority over others. Fashion has changed societies, rich people are wasting lot of money to buy new clothes everyday. They keep on dumping clothes without donating to the poor. Now-a-days not only clothes but people also maintain new cars, new gadgets, new mobiles etc. to show their status in the society.

Gladiola was the narrator’s cook. She decided to leave her job at the Hallocks because she was fed up and scared of Ouija boards and voodoo. She was scared of ghosts and spirits in the house. Lavinia, hence asked her to burn the Ouija board.