CLASS 12 · KALIEDOSCOPE · CHAPTER 2

Eveline

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Eveline

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Question Stop and Think 1

Why does Eveline look carefully at the familiar objects in her home?

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Connect her inspection of the room with her coming departure.

Answer

She may never see these familiar objects again, and they remind her of home.

Question Stop and Think 2

Where does Eveline plan to go with Frank?

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Name the destination and means of travel.

Answer

She plans to sail with Frank to Buenos Aires.

Question Stop and Think 3.1

Who was Frank, and why did Eveline’s father quarrel with him?

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Identify Frank and state the father’s reason for objecting.

Answer

Frank is Eveline’s sailor boyfriend; her father distrusts him and forbids the relationship.

Question Stop and Think 3.2

Why is the organ-player’s appearance important to Eveline on the day she plans to leave?

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Link the music to her mother’s death and her promise.

Answer

It recalls her mother’s last night and the promise to keep the home together, deepening Eveline’s conflict.

Question Understanding the Text 1

Name two people Eveline loved or liked and two she disliked. Explain her feelings toward them.

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Name two people she cares for and two connected with fear or resentment.

Answer

She loved her mother and cared for Harry; she disliked Miss Gavan’s treatment and feared her father’s threats.

Question Understanding the Text 2

Describe the conflicting emotions Eveline feels on the day she plans to leave with Frank.

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Contrast the hopes that pull her away with the duties and fears that hold her back.

Answer

She hopes for safety and happiness with Frank but feels bound by home, family duty, and fear of the unknown.

Question Understanding the Text 3

Why does Eveline give up the chance to escape?

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Explain how fear, memory, and duty affect her at the station.

Answer

Fear of the unknown and her promise to her mother overwhelm her, so she freezes instead of leaving.

Question Understanding the Text 4

What signs show Eveline’s indecision as her departure with Frank approaches?

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Use her hesitation, silence, prayer, and grip on the railing as evidence.

Answer

She keeps reconsidering, delays, prays, and finally grips the railing instead of following Frank.

Question Talking about the Text 1

Why can choosing between family duty and personal happiness be difficult?

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Explain the needs that pull in opposite directions.

Answer

Family care can conflict with safety and independence; a fair choice should consider both without unfairly sacrificing one person.

Question Talking about the Text 2

Describe a difficult choice you or someone you know had to make and how it was handled.

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Name the conflict, the decision, and how it was managed.

Answer

Sample: Someone balanced a family event and a school commitment by planning ahead and discussing a compromise.

Question Appreciation 1

What might the window, gathering dusk, and dusty cretonne symbolise?

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Connect each object or image to Eveline’s choices and feelings.

Answer

The window separates home from escape; dusk suggests uncertainty; dusty cretonne evokes stale routine.

Question Appreciation 2

How does the story’s narration follow Eveline’s consciousness?

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Explain how present details trigger memories and thoughts.

Answer

The story moves through Eveline’s memories and feelings, letting readers experience her indecision from within.

Question Appreciation 3

What emotions do the bell, the seas, Eveline’s grip on the railing, and her helpless-animal expression evoke?

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Match each image to alarm, fear, resistance, or helplessness.

Answer

The images evoke alarm, overwhelming fear, desperate resistance, and finally helpless paralysis.

Question Appreciation 4

Does the author indicate a judgement of Eveline? Explain your view.

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Use the close point of view and non-judgemental ending as evidence.

Answer

The author shows her fear and paralysis but does not directly condemn her; readers may decide how to judge her.

Question Language Work A: Parallelism 1

Identify the parallel parts in “She had consented to go away, to leave her home.”

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Look for matching infinitive phrases.

Answer

“To go away” and “to leave her home.”

Question Language Work A: Parallelism 2

Identify the parallel parts in the sentence about the organ reminding Eveline of her promise.

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Find the repeated reference to the promise.

Answer

“The promise to her mother” and “her promise to keep the home together.”

Question Language Work A: Parallelism 3

Identify the parallel parts in “She prayed to God to direct her, to show her what was her duty.”

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Find the two matching infinitive phrases.

Answer

“To direct her” and “to show her what was her duty.”

Question Language Work A: Parallelism 4

Identify the parallel parts in “Frank would take her in his arms, fold her in his arms.”

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Compare the matching verb phrases.

Answer

“Take her in his arms” and “fold her in his arms.”

Question Language Work A: Parallelism 5

Identify the parallel parts in the sentence describing Eveline sitting by the window.

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Find the two matching “-ing” phrases.

Answer

“Leaning her head against the window curtain” and “inhaling the odour of dusty cretonne.”

Question Language Work A: Parallelism 6

Identify the parallel actions in the sentence about Eveline’s father caring for her when she was ill.

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Name the two past-tense actions.

Answer

He “read her out a ghost story” and “made toast for her at the fire.”

Question Language Work B: Pronunciation

Mark the stressed syllable in each word: photograph, escape, changes, threaten, excitement, farewell, illumined, sailor, sacrifice, invariable.

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Pronounce each word and stress the capitalised syllable.

Answer

PHO-to-graph; es-CAPE; CHANG-es; THREAT-en; ex-CITE-ment; fare-WELL; il-LU-mined; SAIL-or; SAC-ri-fice; in-VAR-i-a-ble.