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ICSE · Class 12 · English- Short Stories : Perspectives and Reflections
Lawley Road revision notes for ICSE Class 12 English- Short Stories : Perspectives and Reflections: 4 topics in quick points.
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Key Topics to Revise
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1. Story Overview
- The story is set after Indian independence on 15 August 1947.
- The Municipal Council becomes eager to show patriotic action by changing street and park names.
- Coronation Park is renamed Hamara Hindustan Park.
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2. Characters and Their Roles
- Talkative Man is the first-person narrator and a recurring character in Narayan's works.
- He earns two rupees per inch of published news from an upcountry paper.
- He becomes involved in the statue affair and later tries to keep the statue as an investment.
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3. Major Events in Sequence
- The Municipal Council celebrates independence and wants to do something grand.
- The Council nationalises street and park names.
- Confusion follows because several roads get the same new name.
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4. Themes and Ideas
- Patriotism in the story is shown as hurried and sometimes shallow.
- Bureaucracy becomes comic when officials act without proper thought.
- History is shown as something that can be misunderstood if people do not check facts.
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Key topics in Lawley Road include Story Overview, Characters and Their Roles, Major Events in Sequence, Themes and Ideas. Study these first, then practise questions on each for the ICSE Class 12 board exam.
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