NCERT Solution For Chapter 4 Telephone Conversation

NCERT Solutions for Class 11 English Woven Words Poetry Chapter 4 Telephone Conversation is provided in this article. Telephone Conversation is written by a renowned African writer Wole Soyinka. The poem shows light on current racial discrimination even after the passing of a law against it.

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NCERT Solutions For Class 11 English Poetry Chapter 4

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Telephone Conversation Summary

• An African man is looking for a rental room. He finds an advertisement in a newspaper. In the ad, it is written that there is no problem with race. 
• Man previously had bitter experiences with such ads, so he decides to make a telephone call to the landlady from a public telephone booth.
• He tells the lady that he is a black man and asks her if it is acceptable. The lady hesitates in asking if he is completely black or half black.
• When the man responded to her by saying that he is not completely black because his palms and soles are white, the lady goes silent. 
• She hangs the phone even though the man pleads for her to at least meet him once in person and check if he is totally black.

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