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Satyajit Ray

A word about Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray(1921-1992) was a man of cinematography and all other art forms that go with it. Born and brought up in Calcutta, Ray started his career as a low-paid commercial artist. Despite such a humble beginning, the flame of creativity burned in him from the very beginning. Satyajit Ray soon rose to fame, like a Phoneix. His first film Pather Panchali (1955) based on a middle class Bengali family won him eleven international awards. With this debut Ray had arrived in the international film-making arena. He wrote stories, their screenplay, music, and directed them to the minutest detail. Satyajit Ray was a brilliant writer too, who could conjure up complex plots out of very ordinary situations. ‘Fritz’ set in a British-era rest house in a small town named Bundi in Rajasthan grips the reader’s attention till the last scene when it plunges him to a cauldron of fear, confusion, and chimera.

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Story line:

Fritz is an interesting story about a suprarational (something that goes beyond the scope of reason) incident experienced by Sankhar, the narrator of the story and his friend Jayanto. Fritz throws up a lot of questions that remain unanswered right till the end of the story. Revolving around the themes of friendship and the idea of the supernatural, the story demonstrates Ray’s penchant for suspense and mystery.

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Fritz by Satyajit Ray | ISC English Class 11 and 12 | Echoes Textbook | Explanation

Assignment 1

Short Questions on Fritz by Satyajit Ray

1. What was the reason behind Jayanto’s insistence on visiting Bundi? [4]

2. Describe the circuit house. [4]

3. Give two incidents from the story that show Shankar to be an observant character. [4]

4. Describe the doll given to Jayanto by his uncle. [4]

5. How can we deduce Jayanto’s attachment to the doll? [4]

Kindly send in your assignment by 13th^th May, 2020 to your respective subject teachers. The email addresses are mentioned below:

sreela.sengupta@dpsn.org.in (XI F)
debarati.chakraborty@dpsn.org.in (XI D and E)
stephanie.v.atkins@dpsn.org.in (XI B)
kamalika.chakraborty@dpsn.org.in (XI A and C)

Assignment 2

1. How was Fritz destroyed? [2]

2. According to Shankar how was the mystery of the deodar tree solved? [2]

3. What had disturbed Jayanto’s sleep at night? How does Shankar respond to Jayanto’s unexplainable feelings of fear and dread? [6]

4. Do you think the memories of Fritz affect Jayanto? Explain with justification from the text. [6]

5. Would you agree to the statement that Shankar was a practical man? Justify. [4]

Kindly send in your assignment by 20th May, 2020 to your respective subject teachers. The email addresses are mentioned below:

sreela.sengupta@dpsn.org.in (XI F)
debarati.chakraborty@dpsn.org.in (XI D and E)
stephanie.v.atkins@dpsn.org.in (XI B)

kamalika.chakraborty@dpsn.org.in (XI A and C)

Kindly send in your queries to the email address mentioned below:
stephanie.v.atkins@dpsn.org.in

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