The Interview

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NCERT Class 12 English Core Chapter wise Solutions

Flamingo – Prose

• 1: The Last Lesson (Alphonse Daudet)
• 2: Lost Spring (Anees Jung)
• 3: Deep Water (William Douglas)
• 4: The Rattrap (Selma Lagerlof)
• 5: Indigo (Louis Fischer)
• 6: Going Places (A. R. Barton)

Flamingo – Poetry

• 1: My Mother at Sixty – Six (Kamala Das)
• 2: An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum (Stephen Spender)
• 3: Keeping Quiet (Pablo Neruda)
• 4: A Thing of Beauty (John Keats)
• 5: Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers (Adrienne Rich)

Vistas – Supplementary Reader

• 1: The Third Level (Jack Finney)
• 2. The Tiger King (Kalki)
• 3. Journey to the end of the Earth (Tishani Doshi)
• 4. The Enemy Pearl (S. Buck)
• 5. Should Wizard hit Mommy (John Updike)
• 6. On the face of It (Susan Hill)
• 7. Evans Tries an O-level (Colin Dexter)

NCERT Solutions for class 12 English Core Flamingo The Interview

Think As you Read

1. What are some of the positive views on interviews?

2. Why do most celebrity writers despise being interviewed?

3. What is the belief in some primitive cultures about being photographed?

4. What do you understand by the expression “thumbprints on his windpipe”?

5. Who, in today’s world, is our chief source of information about personalities?

Understanding the Text

1. Do you think Umberto Eco likes being interviewed? Give reasons for your opinion.

2. How does Eco find the time to write so much?

3. What was distinctive about Eco’s academic writing style?

4. Did Umberto Eco consider himself a novelist first or an academic scholar?

5. What is the reason for the huge success of the novel, The Name of the Rose?

Talking about the Text

Discuss in pairs or small groups.
2. The medium you like best for an interview, print, radio, or television.

3. Every famous person has a right to his or her privacy. Interviewers sometimes embarrass celebrities with very personal questions.