Question 1
In the story, ‘The Letter’ the postmaster called Ali ‘a pest’. Do you find his comment, justified? Explain.
Solution
Ali was very familiar figure for post office because he used to go to there daily. He would go and sit at a particular bench every day, waiting for his name to be called out. On one day, he had come to the post office after several days as he had fallen ill. He enquired for his letter from the postmaster. The postmaster, who was in a hurry to leave, lost his temper on Ali and called him a pest. Ali was not at all a pest; it was just that he came after many days so he was curious to know whether a letter had come for him.
