NCERT Solutions for Class 12 English Kaleidoscope Chapter 2 Eveline

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NCERT Solutions for Class 12 English Kaleidoscope Chapter 2 Eveline are provided in this article with the pdf link for download. The story is about a young lady named Eveline who belongs to a poor family. The family always kept on fighting over money because the family is not earning enough to survive. James Joyce is known for his bold experiments in narrative techniques in fiction. Eveline is one of the fifteen stories of Dublin life. The story is a sympathetic portrayal of Eveline, who has within her reach, escaped from the drudgery of her life but cannot gather enough courage to seize it.

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Eveline Summary

The central character of this story is a girl named Eveline who is in two minds and can not decide between living in the past to take care of her family or going out to the future and living her own life.

  • The story begins with the character Evelyn, who is sitting in the window of her house and thinking about her childhood days.
  • She lives in Dublin with her abusive father though she is planning to run away with her lover Frank to live a peaceful life in the future.
  • In this part of the story the readers get to know that Eveline has lost her mother and has been taking care of her family since then. The readers also get to know that Eveline’s father is an abusive person who does not approve of her relationship with her lover.
  • We can understand that Eveline is tired of dealing with her abusive father and does not want to repeat her mother’s mistake.
  • Ultimately Eveline decides to leave her past behind and elope with her lover to start a new life. 
  • But to her surprise when she was about to board the ship with Frank, she froze and could not take her step forward to the future. The story ends at this point.

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CBSE CLASS XII Related Questions

  • 1.
    In the poem 'A Lecture Upon the Shadow', what does the metaphor 'shadow' represent?


      • 2.
        Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
        What needs my Shakespear for his honour’d Bones,
        The labour of an age in piled Stones,
        Or that his hallow’d reliques should be hid
        Under a Star-ypointing Pyramid?
        Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame,
        What need’st thou such weak witness of thy name?
        Thou in our wonder and astonishment
        Hast built thy self a live-long Monument.
        (On Shakespear. 1630)


          • 3.
            Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
            ‘I only came to tell you that I dreamed about you last night,’ she said. ‘You must leave right away and not come back to Vienna for five years.’
            Her conviction was so real that I boarded the last train to Rome that same night. As for me, I was so influenced by what she said that from then on I considered myself a survivor of some catastrophe I never experienced. I still have not returned to Vienna.
            (I Sell My Dreams)


              • 4.
                Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
                Solomon Margolin regarded her quietly. She had had her own share of troubles. She had suffered in silence for her two brothers, even for Hans, the Nazi. She had gone through a prolonged change of life. Now her face was flushed and covered with beads of sweat. He earned more than enough to pay for a maid, yet Gretl insisted on doing all the housework herself, even the laundry. It had become a mania with her. Every day she scoured the oven. She was forever polishing the windows of their apartment on the sixteenth floor and without using a safety belt.
                (A Wedding in Brownsville)


                  • 5.
                    Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
                    Pity would be no more
                    If we did not make somebody Poor;
                    And Mercy no more could be
                    If all were as happy as we.
                    And mutual fear brings peace,
                    Till the selfish loves increase:
                    Then Cruelty knits a snare,
                    And spreads his baits with care.
                    He sits down with holy fears,
                    And waters the ground with tears;
                    Then Humility takes its root
                    Underneath his foot.
                    (The Human Abstract)


                      • 6.
                        Why was Margayya's house known as 'Tooth Powder House'?

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