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The strange-Looking Man

 

 

The story ‘The storage Looking Man’ reveals the dreadful picture of the war its effect in the community.

In the story, there was a beautiful and peaceful village before the war. Many villagers including the children died in the First World War. And, few of them only lived. Those lived people also suffered later. Some of them did not have eyes, some of them didn’t have their legs and some of them had severe wounds in their body. Nothing in the village was running properly, such as- the windmill, the smith, the public house, the village church and so on.

There were not many children in the village because the women refused to give birth to the children being afraid of the war. Some women gave birth to the children but they became rascals because of the no rule in the village.

Once a boy who had effect of the war had only seen disfigured man in his life. One day he was swimming in the pool although he saw a physically complete man. The boy weeps but the man tries to give some money to him and the boy was afraid and runs towards his mother. The mother says that he didn’t scare the boy but the boy was afraid because he had not seen a whole man in his age. Therefore the whole man was strange looking man to the boy.

Thus the writer has presented the clear picture of the war and its impact in the child psychology.

Answer the following Questions.

1.Write the dreadful picture of the war and its effects the writer tried to show in this story.

In this story, the writer tries to show a dreadful and inhuman picture of the war and its effect. The writer pictures the terror and suffering of the people during the war and post-war time. He is totally negative about the war because in the story the government was compelled to send the people in the war. The writer creates an image of a village after the war where a few people remain living. They are only very aged and incapacitated who are also dying of slow starvation. The people return from the war who are crippled and disfigured in various ways. Nobody can be seen as a whole with all the organs of the body . Some of them have two legs but no arms, some others with arms but no legs and some with neither arms nor legs. The village has been disfigured and they are looked after like babies in cradle. The women in the village deny to give birth to children anymore because the fear of the war. The children are likely to be born with mental or psychological problems. There couldn’t be seen a whole man in the village. So, in this story the writer shows the inhuman effects of the war in the village.

2. How did the village look before and after the war?

The village before the war was completely healthy in every aspect. There were full of people with children, youth and old people. There was normal condition and good qualities in all human. But after the war young and capacitated males couldn’t be seen. If they were seen, they were crippled and disfigured. Nobody could be seen a whole man because some of them lost their arms, limbs, faces and other parts of the body. Some properties of the village such as: windmill, public houses, cottages, church, domestic animals and birds etc. couldn’t be seen after the war. There are no women who want to give birth to the children because of the fear of the war. The children are being born abnormal and mentally incomplete. A normal-looking man without any physical or mental damage or loss before the war became the strange looking man after the war.

3. Why did the writer endeavor to picture out the man as a whole man?

The writer endeavored (attempted) to picture out the man as a whole man to indicate that a very much things or objects in the world remained unbroken or undamaged. A very few things remained as a whole in a time of war. The man had too everything to be in a normal human being. The writer may be trying to differentiate him from other people of the village who were crippled and disfigured after the result of the terrific war.

4. Describe the strange looking man as Johnson would do it.

Johnson would describe the strange looking man with a whole body. He had two arms, two legs, a whole face with eyes, nose, mouth, chin and ears. He could see, speak and hear easily as a normal human being. He was mentally and physically capacitated and no one could be seen in that village like him. Therefore, it was a strange looking man for him.