Class 11 Eglish Notes Chapter 14

Class 11 Eglish Notes Chapter 14Overcoat for Punjab and Rawalpindi board, MCQs, True / False, Match the Columns, Grammar, Questions Answers, and 1st Year FSc Part-1 notes.

Class 11 Eglish Notes Chapter 14 Overcoat

i. What was the colour of the overcoat of the young man?

Answer:
The colour of the overcoat of the young man was brown.

ii. How did he look like?

Answer:
He looked like a gentleman who had soft, shiny hair and wore sideburns with a thin moustache. He wore a brown overcoat with a cream coloured half-opened rose in its buttonhole, white silk scarf, a flat green hat and carried a stick.

iii. Why did the people come out on the Mall?

Answer:
The people came out on the Mall in order to seek comfort in pleasure. They could enjoy the scene on the road, walk, and keep themselves warm in the cold weather.

iv. Who were the people wearing such dress and had come on the Mall?

Answer:
Every type of people, including the fun lovers, wanderers and the lonely ones had come on Mall to join the cheerfulness of the streets.

v. Why was the cat shivering?

Answer:
The cat was shivering because it was a very cold night.

vi. Why did the driver of the truck speed away after the accident?

Answer:
The driver of the truck sped away after the accident because he feared that he would be caught and arrested if he stopped.

vii. Who took the young man to the hospital?

Answer:
A crowd of people gathered at the sight of the accident. A police inspector also came there. They stopped a car and the young man was loaded into it and taken to the hospital.

viii. What kind of music was played in one of the restaurants?

Answer:
An orchestra was played in one of the restaurants.

Q 3. Answer the following questions in not less than 100 words.
i. Give the list of articles, which were found in the coat of the young man.

Answer:
The list of articles which were found in the coat of the young man included a small black comb, a handkerchief, six annas and a few pies. A half smoked cigarette, a little diary with names and addresses of a few people written on it, a list of gramophone records and some advertisements that the distributors had given him were also recovered from the coat of the young man.

ii. What is the moral of the story?

Answer:
The story teaches us the lesson that a person should be judged by his character, not by his appearance. He should remain content in whatever he has. It can be related to the Finnish proverb, “You can disguise wealth, but you can’t hide poverty.” Although the young man gave the impression of a well-to-do man as he strolled about the mall, but his real status was revealed when he was knocked down by a truck and taken to the hospital. When his clothes were taken off in the operation theatre, the doctors and nurses found out that he was only wearing a torn sweater and vest under his overcoat and layers of dirt covered his body.

iii. Write a gist of the story in ten lines.

Answer:
The story ‘Overcoat’ by Ghulam Abbas revolves around the idea of the helplessness of a poor man in the face of the competitive society. The young man, who is the protagonist of the story, disguised his financial status by wearing an overcoat. Under his sophisticated attire was hidden his poverty. His true financial status was revealed once he was knocked down by a truck and taken to the hospital. The doctors and nurses found out that he was wearing a torn sweater and vest under his coat and it seemed that he had not bathed for at least two months. Therefore, the poverty of a person cannot be concealed.

iv. What is the theme of the story?

Answer:
The theme of the story is appearance versus deception. It is about a young man who conceals his poverty by the dint of his overcoat. By wearing his overcoat, he seems to be a respectable man going out on the Mall on Saturday evening but when he’s crushed by a truck and dies in the hospital the doctors and nurses came to know what a destitute he was.