UP Board Master Chapter 2 Class 12 Explanation

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Board	UP Board
Text book	NCERT
Class	12th
Subject	English
Chapter	Chapter 2
Chapter name	A FELLOW TRAVELLER
Chapter Number	Number 3 Explanation
Category	English PROSE Class 12th

UP board Chapter 2 Class 12 English

1. UP Board Master Chapter 2 Class 12th A FELLOW TRAVELLER
2. UP Board Master Chapter 2 Class 12th Summary of the Lesson
3. UP Board Master Chapter 2 Class 12 Explanation
4. UP Board Master chapter 2 Class 12 Comprehension Questions on Paras
5. UP board Master chapter 2 Class 12 Short Questions Answer
6. UP board chapter 2 Class 12 Long Questions Answer
7. UP board chapter 2 Class 12 FILL IN THE BLANKS

• There is a pleasant sense of freedom about being alone in a car age that is, jolting noisily through the night. It is liberty and unrestraint in a very agreeablebform. You can do anything you like.

Reference

Reference : These lines have been taken from the lesson A Fellow Traveller written by A.G.Gardiner.

Context

Context: The author of this lesson was travelling ina train. He was all alone in the compartment. In these lines he describes his loneliness in a pleasant manner.

Explanation

Explanation : The author writes that travelling all alone in a compartment gives him pleasure and sense of freedom.The train is running with noise and is jerking with speed, It is a summer night. The writer is free to do anything in the compartment. He can talk loudly without disturbing anyone. Nobody is there to hear him. He can begin an argument with an imaginary person Jones and defeat him in the argument. He can throw that imaginary person on the floor without any
fear of revenge from him.

• flicked him off my nose,andhe madea tourofthe compartment, investigated its three dimensions, visited each window, fluttered round the light, decided that there was nothing so interesting as that large animal in the corner, came and hada lookat my neck.

Reference

Reference : These lines have been taken from the lesson ‘A Fellow Traveller written by A.G.Gardiner.

Context

Context: The writer was travelling all alone in train. He had none else in the | compartment except the mosquito. In these lines he narrates the actions of the mosquito.

Explanation

Explanation: The mosquito came and sat on the writer’s nose. He waved his hand and drove him away. He saw him flying around the compartment. He flew
along the length of the compartment, then along its width, and finally along its height. Having completed this tour, the mosquito went to the windows one by one.
His next flight was around the glowing lamp. But nothing interested him so much as the big body of the writer himself who sat in a corner of the compartment. From
the lamp the mosquito came direct to the writer and had a good look at his neck Perhaps he wanted to sit and bite the writer on his neck.

• I flicked him off again. He skipped away, took another jaunt round the compartment, returned and seated himself impudently on the back of my hand. It
  is enough, I said: magnanimity has its limits.

Reference

Reference: These lines have been taken from the humorous essay A Fellow Traveller’ written by A. G. Gardiner.

Context

Context: The writer was travelling by a train. Passengers got down at every station. At last the writer was left alone. Then he found that he was not alone. He
had a fellow passenger also there. His fellow passenger was a mosquito. The mosquito was disturbing the writer again and again..

Explanation

Explanation: The writer flew away the mosquito. It flew away and took a short journey round the compartment. It again came and this time it sat on the back of the writer’s hand. The writer got angry. He said that he would not tolerate it any more. There is limit to one’s generosity.

• It is enough. I said: magnanimity has its límits. Twice you have been warned that I am someone in particular, that my august person resents the tickling Impertinence ofstrangers. I assume the black cap. I condemn you to death. Justice demands it, and the court awards it. The counts against you are many. You are a vagrant; you are a public nuisance; you are travelling without a ticket, you have no meat coupon

Reference

Reference: These lines have been taken from the lesson ‘A Fellow Traveller’ written by A. G. Gardiner. . .

Context

Context: The mosquito constantly disturbed the writer. Every time he flicked it off; it came back to him. This time it came and sat on the back of his hand.

Explanation

Explanation : The writer got angry. He said that he would not tolerate itbanymore. There is a limit to his generosity. He gave warning to the mosquito twobtimes. After all, the writer was not an ordinary person. He was someone special. Hebwas respectable. He felt insulted by the uneasy sensation caused by a stranger likebthe mosquito. Now he was not prepared to tolerate this disrespect and rudenessbanymore. So he took upon himself the role of a judge. Becoming a judge, he
sentenced the mosquito to death. Justice demanded that it should be put to death

• It was all in vain. He played with me, openly and ostentatiously, like a skilfulbmatador finessing round an infuriated bull. It was obvious that he was enjoying himself, that it was for this that he had disturbed my repose. He wanted a littlebsport, and what sport, like being chased by this huge. lumbering windmill of a creature, who tasted so good and seemed so helpless and so stupid?

Reference

Reference : These lines have been taken from the lesson ‘A Fellow Traveler written by A. G. Gardiner.

Context

Context: The writer tried his best to kill the mosquito but every time it escaped and all his efforts failed.

Explanation

Explanation : The writer was very much disturbed by the mosquito. He failedbin his attempt to kill the mosquito. It seemed that the mosquito enjoyed the night. It looked like an angry bull. The mosquito avoided all his attacks cunningly. It had disturbed his peace only for his joyful sport. The author thought that it was just abgame for the mosquito who was enjoying it. The author also began to enjoy it like a game. The mosquito liked that a heavy and awkward windmill like animal should chase it. It liked the tasty blood of him.

• Magnanimity and mercy were the noblest attributes of man. In the exercise of these high qualities I could recover my prestige. At present I was ridiculous
  figure, a thing for laughter and derision. By being merciful I could reassert the moral dignity of man and go back to my corner with honour

Reference

Reference: These lines have been taken from the lesson ‘A Fellow Traveller written by A. G. Gardiner.

Context

Context: The writer was travelling in a lonely compartment with a mosquito. The mosquito troubled him a lot. Therefore the writer made serveral attempts to
kill it but his efforts were in vain. Then he gave up anger and became merciful towards the fellow-traveller, mosquito.

Explanation

Explanation : The author says that generosity and kindness are the highestbqualities of man. If we can be liberal and kind to the mosquito, he will become a
very noble man in the eyes of the mosquito. The writer feels that his defeats haveb made him a funny person. The mosquito must be laughing at him. He, therefore,
thinks be kind to it to regain his lost honour. So he goes back to his seat and gives up the idea of killing the mosquito.

• At present, I was ridiculos figure, a thing for laughter and derision. By being merciful I could reassert the moral dignity of man and go back to my corner with honour. I withdraw the sentence of death, I said, returning to my seat. I cannot kill you, but I can reprieve you. I do it.

Reference

Reference : These lines have been taken from the lesson ‘A Fellow Traveller written by A. G. Gardiner.

Context

Context: Here the author describes the manner in which the mosquito wasb troubling him in the train. He wanted to kill the mosquito, but he was helpless.

Explanation

Explanation : The author says that now he is an absurd fellow and by being kind hearted he could make a demand again to gain the moral respect of man. He
could take his seat in a corner of the compartment respectfully. He could postpone or delay the execution of the mosquito condemned to death. He told that he wanted to postpone the death punishment. He could not kill it, but could delay its punishment. And he did so.

• Fortune has made us fellow travellers on this summer night. I have interested you and you have entertained me. The obligation is mutual and it is founded on the fundamental fact that we are fellow-mortals. The miracle of life is ours in common and its nivstery too. I suppose you dont know anything about your Journey I am not sure that I know much about mine. We are really, when you come to think of it a good deal alike-just apparitions that are and then are not coming out of the night into the lighted carriage, fluttering about the lamp for a while and
  going out into the night again perhaps………….

Reference

Reference: These lines have been taken from the lesson ‘A Fellow Traveller written by A. G. Gardiner.

Context

Context: The writer compares life to a journey. We do not know from where we come and where we shall go. In this para the writer gives a spiritual touch to his
thoughts. He speaks over the secret of life.

Explanation

Explanation: The writer tells about the mosquito that luckily they have met in the compartment on this summer night. Both of them have entertained each other.
Therefore the obligation is mutual. This meeting is founded on the basic fact that they were fellow mortals. This was the relation between them. As fellow mortals
they were much nearer to each other. Life is a remarkable event. It is full of secret which nobody can know. Both of them were equally ignorant about the end of life,
which is like a journey. If they seriously thought about it they would find that they were very much similar. Their life is short. They disappear into the darkness.

• The miracle of life is ours in common and its mystery too. I suppose you don’t know anything about your journey. I am not sure that I know much about
  mine. We are really, when you come to think of it, a good deal alike just apparitionsbthat are and then are not coming out of the night into the lighted carriage, fluttering about the lamp for a while and going out into the night again.

Reference

Reference: These lines have been taken from the lesson ‘A Fellow Traveller, written by A. G. Gardiner.

Context

Context: In this paragraph the author has presented his philosophical thought. Here the secrets of life have been described.

Explanation

Explanation: The author realises that the mosquito and the author himself were fellow-travellers. Again, the author said that they were fellow-mortals also.
Both of them were mortal creatures. This was the relation between them. As fellow- mortals they were much nearer to each other. Life is a remarkable event. It is full of secrets which nobody can know. Both of them were equally ignorant about the end of life, which is like a journey. If they seriously thought about it they would find that they were very much similar. They were like ghosts that appear for a short time only. There is darkness from outside. They run around the light for some time. They disappear into the darkness again

UP Board Chapter 2 Class 12 English

1. UP Board Master Chapter 2 Class 12th A FELLOW TRAVELLER
2. UP Board Master Chapter 2 Class 12th Summary of the Lesson
3. UP Board Master Chapter 2 Class 12 Explanation
4. UP Board Master chapter 2 Class 12 Comprehension Questions on Paras
5. UP board Master chapter 2 Class 12 Short Questions Answer
6. UP board chapter 2 Class 12 Long Questions Answer
7. UP board chapter 2 Class 12 FILL IN THE BLANKS