PM Shri Government Senior Secondary School Khanauri ( Girls) Sangrur

  Themes of the story: Sarcasm:- व्यंग्योक्ति, व्यंग्य Characterization: •  Datta :    The Character of Datta plays a vital role here to describe the story. He is the owner of ‘The Modern Frame’ shop. He gives the essence of how human mind is working with sentimental process. It is true that this story also gives the realistic flavor of  irony & satire  to the sense of observing and thinking. As it is said that every day is deferent, every day’s thinking is deferent and every lock’s key deferent so like that, here we put the character of Datta and another one is the customer. He used to put pictures into frames.  One day a customer comes to  Datta’s shop with a faded picture of an elderly person.  The man in the picture has whiskers and a huge turban.  Datta decides to begin work at once.  But then a terrible thing happens.   A tin of enamel paint   accidentally spills over the photo .  Datta tries to ru...

                    THE GOLD FRAME                      - R.K.LAXMAN (  Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Iyer Laxman) SHORT Q/A Q.1. Where was the Modern Frame Works' situated? Ans. It was situated between a drug store and a radio repair shop.    Q.2. Who was the owner of 'The Modern Frame Works’? Ans.Mr. Datta was the owner of 'The Modern Frame Works'.   Q.3. What were the walls of this shop covered with? Ans. The walls of the shop were covered with pictures of Gods, hockey players, children, leaders ,Gods, saints, hockey players, children, national leaders, wedding couples, cheap prints of Monalisa etc.     Q.4. What did the customer want? Ans. The customer wanted a picture of his grandfather to be framed.    Q.5. What types of frames did Datta show to the customer? Ans. Datta showed a number of plain, decorative, thin, floral frames.  Datta ...