NCERT Solutions for Class 11 English (Woven Words) Essays 6 The Story

Class : 11th

Subject : English

Chapter : 6(Essays)

Chapter Name : The Story

Q1 What do you understand of the three voices in response to the question ‘What does a novel
do’?

Answer. In response to the question of ‘What does a novel do’, the first person gives a quick
reply without giving a deep thought about it and looks at a novel as leisure, not as literature. The
second response is aggressive and considers it inferior because it tells a story even though he
enjoys it. The third response is mixed with regret and sadness because he knows the narration
is made through a low level.

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Q2 What would you say are ‘the finer growths’ that the story supports in a novel?

Answer. ‘The Finer Growth” of the novel is the minute details that are added in the story to give
a new dimension to it. The author introduces a subplot or a character to make it different from
the rest and add a twist.

Q3 How does Forster trace the human interest in the story to primitive times?

Answer. Forster believed story-telling was an old thing and is dated back to the Neolithic or
maybe even Paleolithic Age. He is of the opinion that one judge from the skull of the
Neanderthal that it heard stories. He believes that it was just an idle time and way to relax for