14 (i) : The man describes Raina as an angel. He describes raina as an angel as she has just given him her three last remaining chocolate creams. The Man has been starving and had long since finished eating the last chocolates he had had with him. He is grateful to Raina for sharing all the chocolate she had with him even though he had tried to threaten her, and forced himself on her hospitality and was her and her country's enemy - she has behaved in a super human manner - like an angel.
(ii) : The Man eats the chocolate creams greedily because he is starving having been in the thick of the fighting of over two days. Probably his army had not been able to get supplies to their regiment and he had eaten all the food (chocolates) which he had had with him, probably a long time ago.
This tells us that in war getting regular supplies to the frontline of the battle is very challenging and the soldiers so engaged often have to go hungry. It shows us how challenging war is, beyond fearing getting killed by the enemy.
(iii) : According to the extract old soldiers (the ones who have more experience on the battle field) come prepared for emergencies in which the supply of food may not get to them. They thus carry chocolate to meet such emergencies.However, the younger (less experienced soldiers) are full of fervour and do not realise that war is not a very romantic experience of sacrificing one's life for one's country. They do not realise that sometimes the food supplies do not reach them. They do not carry emergency food supplies (instead they are fully loaded with ammunition) and so they starve !
(iv) : The man shoes away when Raina throws the chocolate box because he is "all nerves", that is, the experience of the war over specially the last three days has been so intense and tense that he is very jittery - making him jump at the least unexpected action.
The previous time the man shied and fled to other side of the room was when Raina has mistakenly sat on the Man's revolver which had been lying on the ottoman and she had let out a shriek in her shock at having sat on a gun.
(v) : The extract tells us that the Man is a very down to earth soldier. He obviously overstates the behaviour of older soldiers, but one sense that he would have preferred it if younger soldiers were given a matter of fact explanation of the challenges of being a soldier in active battle.
In his love of chocolate and how he reacts in cleaning the chocolate box clean, he behaves quite childishly, but given that he is starving, one might excuse such behaviour from a grown man in the circumstances.
(vi) : Shaw has satarised the romantic notion of war in the extract through the words and behaviour of the Man. In his behaviour, Shaw sows that soldiers are not always the strong, patriotic, able to bear all difficulties persons. He shows that soldiers are as human as any one else. In the words of the Man, Shaw shows that romantic notions of war might leave a soldier unable to take up arms and fight strongly because he had not been practical enough to take some food stuff in the very possible circumstance of food supplies not being able to reach the front line of battle.
(ii) : The Man eats the chocolate creams greedily because he is starving having been in the thick of the fighting of over two days. Probably his army had not been able to get supplies to their regiment and he had eaten all the food (chocolates) which he had had with him, probably a long time ago.
This tells us that in war getting regular supplies to the frontline of the battle is very challenging and the soldiers so engaged often have to go hungry. It shows us how challenging war is, beyond fearing getting killed by the enemy.
(iii) : According to the extract old soldiers (the ones who have more experience on the battle field) come prepared for emergencies in which the supply of food may not get to them. They thus carry chocolate to meet such emergencies.However, the younger (less experienced soldiers) are full of fervour and do not realise that war is not a very romantic experience of sacrificing one's life for one's country. They do not realise that sometimes the food supplies do not reach them. They do not carry emergency food supplies (instead they are fully loaded with ammunition) and so they starve !
(iv) : The man shoes away when Raina throws the chocolate box because he is "all nerves", that is, the experience of the war over specially the last three days has been so intense and tense that he is very jittery - making him jump at the least unexpected action.
The previous time the man shied and fled to other side of the room was when Raina has mistakenly sat on the Man's revolver which had been lying on the ottoman and she had let out a shriek in her shock at having sat on a gun.
(v) : The extract tells us that the Man is a very down to earth soldier. He obviously overstates the behaviour of older soldiers, but one sense that he would have preferred it if younger soldiers were given a matter of fact explanation of the challenges of being a soldier in active battle.
In his love of chocolate and how he reacts in cleaning the chocolate box clean, he behaves quite childishly, but given that he is starving, one might excuse such behaviour from a grown man in the circumstances.
(vi) : Shaw has satarised the romantic notion of war in the extract through the words and behaviour of the Man. In his behaviour, Shaw sows that soldiers are not always the strong, patriotic, able to bear all difficulties persons. He shows that soldiers are as human as any one else. In the words of the Man, Shaw shows that romantic notions of war might leave a soldier unable to take up arms and fight strongly because he had not been practical enough to take some food stuff in the very possible circumstance of food supplies not being able to reach the front line of battle.
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