DU SOL Question Paper 2018 BA English - Post Colonial Literature

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Your Roll.No

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ENGLISH DTSCTPLINE-Paper III

(Post-Colonial Literature : C- I 89)

Time : 3 Hours Maximum Marks : 75

(rUrite your Roll No. on the top imnediate$' on receipt oJ lhis queslion paryr.)

Note '.- The maximum marks printed on the question paper are
applicable for the students of Category 'A'. These
marks will, however, be scaled up proportionately in
r€spect of the students of SOL, at the time of posting

of awards for compilation of results.
This paper contains three Sections A, B and C.

All the three Sections are compulsory.
Section A

It. Answer both Part (a) and Part (b). Each part carries
l0 marks. 2xlgt2g

(a) Place these lines in their context, explain them and add

critical comments : l0

(2) 4247

Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.

I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.
She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.

How could one not have loved her great still eyes.

Or

I looked and there was mv friend......
his face was formed in stone,

his profile defied the wild weather,

in his nose the wind was muffling

the moaning of the persecuted.

There the exile came to ground.

Changed into stone, he lives in his own couniry.

(b) Place these lines in their context, explain them and add

critical comments : l0

The spring festival fires are scattered in distance. Mary
is not afraid, she fears no animal as she walks, watching
the railway line in the dark, by the starlight. Today all
the mundane blood ............ conditioned fears of the wild

quadrupled are gone because she has killed the biggest

beast.

(3) 4247

Or

Our hero was a poor illiterate cook, not particularly known

for his intelligence. His kitchen was his world. He was
not bothered by anything that happened outside it. And

why should he be ? His routine consisted of cooking, '

eating heartily, taking a good pinch of snuff, sleeping,

waking up and busying himself with his cooking again.

Section B

Discuss 'Such a Long Journey' as a realistic representation

of the Parsi community. l0

Or

Write a character sketch of Gustad Noble.

Why does Ngugi's choose Gikuyu language for his creative

writing ?

0
Comment critically on the view that colonialism distorted the

African realities.

Critically analyse Anna's reaction to the blind man in
'Love'. t0

4) 4247

Or

and man on the
Describe the encounter between the narrator

street in 'The Blue Bouquet''

Section C

as a rigid
lit 'Things Fall Apart'. Achebe portrays Okonkwo

manwhorefusestochangewiththechangingtimes'Doyou
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agree ? Give a reasoned answer' '

Or

Okonkwo's downfall in 'Things Fall
Apart' is reflected as the

downfall of a great community' Discuss'

role in'silence! The Court
Discuss the significance of Samant's
t5
is in Session' .

Or

speech in'silence! The
Critically analyse Leela Benare's final

Court is in Session''

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