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BACHELOR'S DEGREE PROGRAMME


(BDP)

ASSIGNMENT (For Juty 2013 And January 2014)

ELECTIVE COURSE IN ENGLISH UNDERSTANDING PROSE


EEG-05

School of Humanities Indira Gandhi National Open University Maidan Garhi, New Delhi - 110 068

Blective Course in English -05 LINDERSTANDING PROSE (EEG _ 05) Programme : BDP Course Code: EEG-05/2013
Dear Students, You will have one assignment for the Elective Course in English-05, which will be a Tutor Marked Assignment (TMA) and will carry 100 marks" It will be based on blocks 1 to 8.

Aims: This assignment is concemed mainly with assessing your application and your understanding of the course material. You are not required to reproduce chunks of information from the course material but to use the skills of critical appreciation that you may have acquired during the course of study. This assignment aims to teach as well as to
assess

your performance.

Instructions: Before attempting the questions please read the following instructions
carefully.

1. 2. 3.

Read the detailed instructions about the assignments given in the Programme Guide for Elective Courses.

Write your Enrolment Number, Name, Full Address and Date on the top right corner of the first page of your response sheet(s).

Write the Course Title, Assignment Number and the Name of the Study Centre you attached to in the centre of the first page of your response sheet(s).
The top of the first page of your response sheet should look like this:

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ENROLMENT NO:

NAME:
ADDRESS
:

COURSE TITLE : ..... ASSIGNMENT NO: STUDY CENTRE ,,,.. DATE: 4. Use only foolscap size paper for your response and tag all the pagei carefully.

5. 6. 7.

Write the relevant question number with each answer. You should write in your own handwriting.

Submission: The completed assignment should be sent to the Coordinator of the Studv Centre allotted to you by 3L't March, 2014(For July,2013 session) and 30ft September,

2014 (For January, 2014 session). Please read the instructions given in your Programme Guide. Now read the following guidelines carefully before answering the questions.

GUIDELINES FOR TMAs


You will find it useful to keep the following points in mind:

1. Planning:
units.

Read the questions caretully. Go through the units on which they are based. Make some points regarding each question and then rearrange these in a logical order. And please write the answers in your own words. Do not reproduce passages from the

1. Organisation: Be a little more selective and analytic before drawing up a rough outline of your answer. [n an essay-type question, give adequate attention to your introduction and conclusion. The introduction must offer your brief interpretation of the question and how you propose to develop it. The conclusion must summarise your response to the question. ln the course of your answer, you may like to make references to other texts or critics as this will add some depth to your analysis.
Make sure that your answer:

a) b) c) d)

is logical and coherent; has clear connections between sentences and paragraphs; is written correctly giving adequate consideration to your expression. style and prelentation; does not exceed the number of words indicated in your question.

2. Presentation:

Once you are satisfied with your answers, you can write down the final version for submission, writing each answer neatly and underlining the points you wish to emphasise.

You may be aware that you need to submit your assignments before you can appear for the Term End Exams. Please remember to keep a copy of your completed assignment, just in case the one you submitted is lost in transit.
Good luck with your work!

Elective Course in English (EEG-05) Based on Blocks 1 to 8

Maximum Marks: L00 Programme: BDP


Answer all questions.

1.

Comment on the dominant variety of prose (narrative, expository or descriptive) present in each of the following passages. Write a brief critical appreciation of each passage in about 250 words each:
(a)

The Boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way towards the lagoon. Though he had taken off his school sweater and trailed it now from one hand, his grey shirt stuck to him and his hair was plastered to his forehead. All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat. He was clambering heavily among the creepers and broken trunks when a bird, a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witch-like cry; and this cry was echoed by another. Each one of us must find and work out for himself the ways in which he must modify his life, so as to achieve balance and self-direction, make the fullest use of his potentialities and so contribute to the general renewal of life. There is no single formula for achieving this transformation; for the intellectual, so far from needing a balanced diet of the 'hundred best books' often needs rather a stiff turn at manual toil' or the assumption of active political responsibilities in his community, or in thought itself intensive study in some neglected domain.
the Mesopotamia, might have been figures in a legend as far as Sriram was concerned. He had, however, concrete evidence of his mother in a framed photograph which for years hung too high on the wail for him to see. When he grew tall enough to study the dim picture, he didn't feel pleased with her appearance: he wished she looked like that portrait of a European queen with apple cheeks and wavy coiffure hanging in the little shop opposite his house, where he often went to buy peppermints with the daily money given him by his granny. Of his father, at least, there were recurring reminders. On the first of every month the postman brought a brown, oblong cover, addressed to his granny. Invariably Granny wept when the envelope came to her hand. It made his childish mind wonder what could be there in that envelope to sting the tears out of her eyes.

(b)

(c)

His mother, who died delivering him, and his father, who was killed in

(i0x3 =30)
2.

Do you think that "The Lost Child" is a simple story of a child's experience or does it have a symbolic meaning also. Give reasons for your answer. (10)

J.

Discuss the three armours that Stevenson considers essential for a meaningful, happy life in 'Aes Triplex'. (10)

4.

What is the message of A Tiger for MalgudlT Has Narayan been successful in conveying this message through the persona of Raja? Discuss. (10)

5.

How does Farfrae intrude on the traditional pattern of life in Casterbridge and make
himself indispensable?
(10)

6.

Examine Nehru's art and craft as a biographer. (10)

7.

Write short notes on the following: (D Simile and metaphor (ii) Development of the English essay.
(70x2=20)

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