The Hack Driver
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Harry Sinclair Lewis
About the lesson
हिंदी सारांश
कहानी का वर्णनकर्ता एक कानून संबंधी फर्म में एक कनिष्ठ सहायक लिपिक है| उसे लुटकिंस नामक एक आदमी को सामान पहुंचाने के लिए एक कस्बे में भेजा जाता है| उस कस्बे में पहुंचने पर उसकी भेंट एक कोचवान से होती है| वह कोचवान उसे लुटकिंस की खोज में पूरे कस्बे में घूमाता है| लेकिन लुटकिंस कहीं नहीं मिलता है| वर्णनकर्ता शहर लौट जाता है| अगले दिन उसे फिर से उस कस्बे में एक ऐसे आदमी के साथ भेजा जाता है जो लुटकिंस को पहचानता है| उससे वह कोचवान प्लेटफार्म पर ही दिखाई देता है| उसके साथ वाला आदमी उसे बताता है कि वह कोचवान स्वयं लुटकिंस ही है| वर्णनकर्ता स्वयं को मूर्ख बनाया हुआ महसूस करता है|
Word Meaning
Summons - call for Court कचहरी के सम्मन | Magnificent - Grand, splendidशानदार, भव्य | Victims - prey शिकार | Briefs - summary of cases मुकदमे | Unpleasant - vulgar भद्दा | Fleeing - running away like coward कायरों की तरह भागना | rejoice - Made merry आनंदित हुआ | Witness - evidence गवाह | Eager - curious उत्सुक, उत्कंठा पूर्ण | Bare - naked out नंगी | Hack - carriage, a coach kept for hire किराए की गाड़ी | Glowed - Shone चमक उठा Warmed - heat गर्मी | Interfere - meddle विघ्न डालना | Fancy - fine सुंदर | Earnestly - Seriously, honestly इमानदारी से | Proceed - to go ahead आगे बढ़ना | Poker - a card game ताशों का एक खेल | Deceiving - cheating धोखा देना | Admire - praise सराहना करना | Cheerily - Merrily खुशी से | Hesitated - was held back हिचक गया | A little while - short time थोड़ा समय | Lingered - stay back पीछे ठहरना | pool room - a gambling den जुआ खेलने का अड्डा | Persuaded - chaste पीछा करना | Scarcely - hardly मुश्किल से | Greasy - oily चिपकना | Wisdom - wit बुद्धिमानी | Pastures - grazing ground, meadows चारागाह | Creek - a narrow inlet on sea coast छोटी खाड़ी | खयियाई Forgive - excuse क्षमा करना | Strengthened - made strong सशक्त बनाया | Terror - a source of fright आतंकित करने वाली | Swearing - to say firmly, recording दृढ़ता से कहना, | Enormous - huge in size भारी भरकम | Carter - one who drives the cart कोचवान | Retreat - receding, getting backपीछे हटना | Barn - granary भंडार गृह | Peering - lookingझांकना | Shameful - disgraceful शर्मनाक | Ditches - motes खाई |
Read and find out
Q1. Why is the lawyer sent to a new mullion? what does he think about the place?
Ans. The lawyer sent to a new mullion to serve summons to a man named Lutkins. The first thing that the place must be a sweet and simple village.
Q2. Who befriends him? where does he take him?
Ans. hack driver befriends him. he takes him almost all the places of the village in search of Lutkins. He takes him to fritz shop, gustaff Barbershop, To grey barbershop, schoolroom, and to the farm of Lutkins mother, three miles away from the village.
Q3. What does he said about Lutkins?
Ans. He described as a man who is always up to something or the other. He owes money too many people and never repays his debt. he plays a lot of Poker. he is good at deceiving people. he does not call him a bad man.
Read and find about
Q1. What more does Bill say about Bill and his family?
Ans. Bill says that Lutkins must have gone to his mother’s farm. He describes Lutkins’ mother as a very quarrelsome and short-tempered woman.
Q2. Does the narrator serve the summons on that day?
Ans. No, the narrator cannot derve the summons on that day. He comes the next day to serve the summons to Lutkins.
Q3. Who is Lutkins?
Ans. The hack driver who introduces himself as Bill is none other than Lutkins himself. He is a jolly fellow who befools the narrator.
Ans. The hack driver who introduces himself as Bill is none other than Lutkins himself. He is a jolly fellow who befools the narrator.
Think about it
Q1. When the lawyer reached a new mullion, did ‘Bill’ know that he was looking for Lutkins? When do you think Bill came up with this plan for fooling lawyers?
Ans. When the lawyer reached a new mullion, ‘Bill’ did not know that he was looking for Lutkins. I think Bill came up with his plan for fooling the lawyer when he came to know that the lawyer did not recognize Lutkins.
Q2. Lutkins openly takes the lawyer all over the village. How is it that no one lets out the secret? Can you find other subtle ways in which Lutkins manipulates the tour?
Ans. Wherever they go, Lutkins asked the lawyer to keep behind him. this gives him a chance to signal the people to share his plan. He manipulates the lowest tour in other ways too. he takes him to a hilltop and spends an hour there. then he takes him to his mother's farm. 3 miles away. he makes his mother frighten the lawyer. he makes him pass time away from the crowd of the village. all these places, there is no danger of his identity been disclosed. does he keep him away from the village where his secret might be disclosed?
Q3. Why do you think Lutkins’ neighbors were anxious to meet the lawyers?
Ans. Lutkins had befooled the lawyer in the whole village. almost all people had enjoyed this joke of Lutkins. these neighbors were the only paper who had missed seeing the lawyer. so they were anxious to meet him.
Q4. After his first-day experience with the hack driver, the lawyer thinks of returning to new million to practice law? do you think he would have considered this idea after his second visit?
Ans. Thought of returning to a new Mullian because he found the people there very simple. but his second visit discloses to him that they were really very clever people. so he must have considered his idea of returning to a new mullion.
Q5. Do you think the lawyer was gullible? how could he have avoided being taken for a ride?
Ans. I do think that the lawyer was gullible.had he been worldly-wise, he would have avoided being taken for a ride. he should not have trusted by stranger blindly. he should have been first enquiring about Lutkins, not bill.
Talk about it
Q1. Do we come across persons like Lutkins only in fiction or do we encounter them in real life as well? you can give example from fiction or narrate an accident that you have read a newspaper or an accident from real life?
Ans. The word abounds in cunning people. these people enjoy being fooling others and take advantage of their being simplistic. we encounter people like Lutkin’s real life as well. I read about one such incident in the newspaper. the two people came to our house. they told me that they would clean old jewelry. the woman of the house brought her jewelry out. the man mixes the powder with a little water and dips the jewelry in it. a few minutes later they handed over dazzling jewelry to the women. the men have gone, the jewelry was found to be fake. the man had played with the original jewelry.
Q2. Who is A ‘Con man’ or confidence trickster?
Q1. When the lawyer reached a new mullion, did ‘Bill’ know that he was looking for Lutkins? When do you think Bill came up with this plan for fooling lawyers?
Ans. When the lawyer reached a new mullion, ‘Bill’ did not know that he was looking for Lutkins. I think Bill came up with his plan for fooling the lawyer when he came to know that the lawyer did not recognize Lutkins.
Q2. Lutkins openly takes the lawyer all over the village. How is it that no one lets out the secret? Can you find other subtle ways in which Lutkins manipulates the tour?
Ans. Wherever they go, Lutkins asked the lawyer to keep behind him. this gives him a chance to signal the people to share his plan. He manipulates the lowest tour in other ways too. he takes him to a hilltop and spends an hour there. then he takes him to his mother's farm. 3 miles away. he makes his mother frighten the lawyer. he makes him pass time away from the crowd of the village. all these places, there is no danger of his identity been disclosed. does he keep him away from the village where his secret might be disclosed?
Q3. Why do you think Lutkins’ neighbors were anxious to meet the lawyers?
Ans. Lutkins had befooled the lawyer in the whole village. almost all people had enjoyed this joke of Lutkins. these neighbors were the only paper who had missed seeing the lawyer. so they were anxious to meet him.
Q4. After his first-day experience with the hack driver, the lawyer thinks of returning to new million to practice law? do you think he would have considered this idea after his second visit?
Ans. Thought of returning to a new Mullian because he found the people there very simple. but his second visit discloses to him that they were really very clever people. so he must have considered his idea of returning to a new mullion.
Q5. Do you think the lawyer was gullible? how could he have avoided being taken for a ride?
Ans. I do think that the lawyer was gullible.had he been worldly-wise, he would have avoided being taken for a ride. he should not have trusted by stranger blindly. he should have been first enquiring about Lutkins, not bill.
Talk about it
Q1. Do we come across persons like Lutkins only in fiction or do we encounter them in real life as well? you can give example from fiction or narrate an accident that you have read a newspaper or an accident from real life?
Ans. The word abounds in cunning people. these people enjoy being fooling others and take advantage of their being simplistic. we encounter people like Lutkin’s real life as well. I read about one such incident in the newspaper. the two people came to our house. they told me that they would clean old jewelry. the woman of the house brought her jewelry out. the man mixes the powder with a little water and dips the jewelry in it. a few minutes later they handed over dazzling jewelry to the women. the men have gone, the jewelry was found to be fake. the man had played with the original jewelry.
Q2. Who is A ‘Con man’ or confidence trickster?
Ans. A con man or a confidence trickster is the person who first wins our confidence then it fools us. we begin to trust him so much that we easily fall prey to his tricks. He is an expert at deceiving people.
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