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| THE MIDNIGHT VISITOR |
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| ROBERT ARTHUR |
CHARACTERS:
Ausable - Ausable is a secret agent who does not look like one at all, but shows the great presence of mind to outwit another secret agent.
Fowler - Fowler is a young and romantic writer who is looking for some excitement in the company of a secret agent like Ausable.
Max - Max is a rival secret agent who is fooled by Ausable and falls to his death.
English Class 10 Solution
Ausable was a smart secret agent, yet he didn't seem
as though one by any means, being short and fat. Fowler was a young writer who
wanted to write about Ausable and so spent an evening with him. Fowler was
feeling disillusioned so far, as he was unable to locate any characteristic of
a secret agent in Ausable.
At the point when both Ausable and Fowler entered
Ausable’s hotel room, another secret agent named Max was holding up in the room
with an automatic pistol pointed at them. Max was there because he had come to
realize that Ausable would get a significant report about some new missiles
that night. Max threatened to shoot if Ausable tried to act smart.
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| MAX POINTING PISTOL AT AUSABLE AND FOWLER |
To guarantee the report's security just as his own and the writer's wellbeing,
Ausable invented a tale about anyone going into his room easily through a balcony
just below the window in his room. in reality, there was no balcony – in the
event that anyone moved out from the window, he would tumble to his demise, as
the room was on the sixth floor. However, Max revealed to them that he had
entered the room through the door using a passkey.
Suddenly, there was a knocking on the door and
Ausable pretended that it was the neighborhood police, who had been approached
to give him additional security for the significant record he was going to get.
When the knocking was repeated Max Max lost control with Ausable and decided to
wait in the balcony (which he thought existed) until the police left. He
stepped out of the window and fell to his death.
When the door opened, a waiter came in with drinks
which Ausable had ordered to be delivered to his room when he had returned to
the hotel.
1. How is Ausable different from other secret
agents?
Or
What great qualities made Ausable a successful
secret agent?
Or
How was Ausable different from other secret agents?
How does he deal with Max?
Answer: Ausable was different from other secret
agents in more ways than one. He had a small room in the musty corridor of a
gloomy French hotel. It was on the sixth floor and was scarcely the setting for
a romantic adventure. He was extremely fat. In spite of living in Paris for
over twenty years, he spoke French and German with difficulty and had an
American accent. Instead of getting messages passed secretly to him by
beautiful girls, he got only a routine telephone call making an appointment. In
these ways, he was different from the conventional notion of a secret agent.
He dealt with Max to by inventing some stories and
convincing Max to act on them, so that he could get rid of Max permanently.
2. Who is Fowler and what is his first authentic
thrill of the day?
Answer: Fowler was a writer and had come to meet
Ausable. His first authentic thrill of the day came when he saw a man in
Ausable’s room pointing a pistol towards Ausable and himself.
3. How has Max got in?
Answer: Max has got into the room using a passkey.
4. How does Ausable say he got in?
Answer: Ausable says that max got into the room
through the balcony. he says that it is the second time in a month that
somebody has got into his room this way.
5. "Ausable did not
fit any description of a secret agent Fowler had ever read." What do
secret agents in books and films look like, in your opinion? Discuss in groups
or in class some stories or movies featuring spies, detectives, and secret
agents, and compare their appearance with that of Ausable in this story.
Answer: Secret agents in fiction are
anticipated like perfect men, ''mysterious yet attractive''. They are normally
well-built and stay with beautiful women. they would smoke a pipe or a cigar
and execute death-defying stunts. Movies based on James Bond show hi-tech
gadgets that assist the detective in countering villains. However, there are
some exceptions to this appearance of a secret agent also. A character named
Feluda was made by Satyajit Ray, the acclaimed Bangla producer. Feluda was a
tall athletic figure who depended on his heavenly scientific capacity and
perception aptitude.
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| FELUDA |
6. How does Ausable manage to make Max believe that
there is a balcony attached to his room? look back at his detailed description
of it. What makes it a convincing story?
Answer: Ausable makes a point by point
depiction of how his room was part of a big apartment and how the following
room has an immediate connection with a balcony. His explanation that
another person also broke into his room through that balcony earlier makes it a
persuading story. Ausable's ability to think quickly and calmly in a situation
of panic makes it convincing.
7. Looking back at the story, when do you think
Ausable thought up his plan for getting rid of Max? Do you think he had worked
out his plan in detail right from the beginning? Or did he make up a plan
taking advantage of events as they happened?
Answer: No, I don't think that he had worked
out his plan in detail earlier. He exploited occasions as they occurred.
Ausable made up an account of the balcony outside the room and as there was a
knock at the door, he said that it would be the police. All these made Max
desperate. He got anxious and without seeing underneath, leaped out of the
window.
8. Why had Fowler wanted to meet Ausable?
Answer: Fowler was an author and he had to know
how Ausable tackled dangerous circumstances.
9. Describe Ausable's reaction after entering
Ausable's hotel room.
Answer: Initially, Ausable got a shock to see
Max in his room. but he remained calm. Max had a pistol with him, so Ausable
didn't try anything fishy. he just kept himself cool and calm, fooled Max by
using his brain to invent stories.
10. 'Ausable shows great presence of mind in a
situation of danger and surprise.' Do you agree with this statement? If yes,
why?
Answer: Truly, I agree with the statement, as
Ausable demonstrated incredible common sense when Max pointed a gun at him when
he went into the hotel room with Fowler, which astounded and endangered them.
He stayed calm and cool, creating stories as required to trick Max into jumping
to his demise.
11. Ausable was a successful secret agent. What
qualities can be attributed to him? give some examples.
Answer: Ausable is an unordinary sort of secret
agent. Generally, secret agents that are depicted in detective books and
appeared in films, are very smart and firearm-friendly. Nonetheless, Ausable
doesn't present such an image. He is exceptionally fat and sloppy. Physically,
he might be fat yet intellectually he is very agile and quick-witted. He knows all
the tricks of his trade. He is very quick to react and can cook up stories that
may fit in all kinds of situations. He convinces even the tricky Max that there
is a balcony underneath the window of his room. This is a well thought out trap
and Max accidentally falls into it. At that point, he cooks up the story of the
police. He again succeeds in convincing Max that the loud knocking at the door
is that of the police. He reveals to Max that he himself has sought the
protection of the police as he has a significant report concerning some new
missiles with him. In this way, he gets rid of his rival and enemy Max who
leaps out of the window only to cry for the last time in his life.
Q: Why did
Max’s face turn black with anger? What did he want Ausable to do?
Answer: Max’s
face turned black with anger as he realised that his plan to extract the
important document from Ausable was in danger of failing due to the knocking on
the door, which Ausable identified as the police. He wanted Ausable to send the
police away.
Q: Why did
Ausable frame the story of the balcony?
Answer:
Ausable framed the story of the balcony to counter the use of the pistol by the
rival secret agent max to threaten him. The rival would have been able to get
the important paper about the new missiles if Ausable had not concocted
(created) this story.
Q: How does
Ausable manage to make max believe that there is a balcony attached to his
room?
Answer:
Ausable describes in detail how his room was a part of a larger apartment and
how the next-door room had a direct link to the balcony. His statement that
someone else had also broken into his room through that balcony made it a
convincing story.
Q: Who actually
gad knocked at the door of Ausable’s room? Why did he come there?
Answer: The waiter in the hotel where Ausable was staying knocked at the door of Ausable’s
room. He had brought the drinks which Ausable had ordered when he arrived at the
hotel with Fowler.
Q: What was Auable's profession
or
What was Ausable?
Answer: Ausable was a secret agent.
Q: Where was Ausable staying?
Answer: Ausable was staying at a French hotel.
Q: Where was Ausable from?
Answer: Ausable was from Boston.
Q: Who came to meet Ausable?
Answer: Fowler, a young romantic writer, came to meet Ausable.
Q: What was Fowler's profession
or
What was Fowler?
Answer: Fowler was a writer.
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