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The Letter
How do you know Ali was a familiar figure at the Post Office?
Ali had been visiting the Post Office everyday for five years to ask for his daughter's letter. Everyone knew him. The Post Office had become a place of pilgrimage for him as he used to wait there for long, pray and hope to receive his daughter's letter.
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'Tortured by doubt and remorse, he sat down in the glow of the charcoal sigri to wait.' The Post Master was waiting for ____.
Who was Ali? Where did he go daily?
'Ali displays qualities of love and patience.' Give evidence from the story to support the statement.
How do you know Ali was a familiar figure at the Post Office?
Why did Ali give up hunting?
What impression do you form of the postmaster after reading the story, 'The Letter'?
The postmaster says to Ali, 'What a pest you are, brother!' Do you agree with the statement? Give reasons for your answer.
'Ali came out very slowly, turning after every few steps to gaze at the post office. His eyes were filled with tears of helplessness, for his patience was exhausted, even though he still had faith.' Why were Ali's eyes filled with tears of helplessness? What had exhausted his patience but not his faith?
'Tortured by doubt and remorse, he sat down in the glow of the charcoal sigri to wait.' Who is tortured by doubt and remorse? Why? What is he waiting for?
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