THE COP AND THE ANTHEM

 

LESSON ELEVEN 

THE COP AND THE ANTHEM

VOCABULARY

Read some popular quotations from famous personalities and find out what it means.

For instance, the first quotation 'All that glitters is not gold' means that all things which appear nice and good is not always so.

1. All that glitters is not gold. William Shakespeare

Answer : It means that all things which appear nice and good is not always so.

2. An eye  for an eye will only make the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi 

Answer : It means if we keep punishing those we deem cruel, then we're no better than the bad guys ourselves.

3. The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it. Albert Einstein

Answer : It means that the real danger in the world doesn't come merely from those who commit harmful actions, but more so from those who observe these actions and choose to do nothing.

Find a few quotations of other famous personalities and write what it means.

Answer : 1. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. Helen Keller

It means the positive side is always better than the negative one. 

2. It always seems impossible until it's done. Nelson Mandela. 

It means that many things in life may seem insurmountable until we actually achieve them. 

II. What do the following mean?

rock music

                               

disco music

folk music

pop-songs

heavy metal

blues

soul

Western Classical

Answer :

rock music - a form of popular music that evolved from rock and roll and pop music during the mid and late 1960s.

disco music -  a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the 1970s from the United States' urban nightlife scene. 

folk music - music that originates in traditional popular culture or that is written in such a style. Folk music is typically of unknown authorship and is transmitted orally from generation to generation.

pop-songs - a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. 

heavy metal - genre of rock music that includes a group of related styles that are intense, virtuosic, and powerful.

blues - a music genre and musical form that originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture. 

soul - a kind of pop music incorporating elements of rhythm and blues and gospel, performed especially by black American musicians.

Western Classical - music composed/created in Europe, the United States, and societies that were shaped by European immigrants.

III. List the words in the box under these three heads :

crime                trial                penalty

witness        theft        prison        hijacking death-sentence        public-flogging blackmarketing        jury        rash-driving judge        smuggling        bail

Answer : Crime - theft, hijacking, blackmarketing, smuggling, 

Trial - witness, jury, judge, public -flogging, bail

Penalty - prison, death-sentence

READ FAST

Read paragraphs 1 to 10 and complete the notes below.

1. For Soapy, the signs of winter were:

(a) Birds began to fly south.

(b) Women who want nice new warm coats become very kind to their husbands. 

2. The winter resort he chose was the prison in Blackwell Island because he would get both food and shelter during the cold weather. 

3. To fulfill his desire, Soapy wanted to get arrested.

4. Soapy did not want help from people because they would make him answer questions and would want to know everything about his life.

READ CAREFULLY 

Read paragraphs 11 to 36. Soapy does all sorts of things to get arrested. What he did and how the cop reacted is given below in jumbled order. Work in pairs and put them in sequential order.

Said he was a college boy

Head waiter gently moved him outside

Broke a window pane and stood there

Cop ran after another man

Asked man to call the police but got  umbrella instead

Ate a big dinner and said he had  no money

In anger he threw the umbrella as far as he could

Stepped into a restaurant

Cop laughed and walked away

Cop turned his back on him

Stole a man's umbrella and argued with him

Cop said he had instructions  to let them shout

Danced and shouted at the  top of his voice

Two waiters threw him  out into the street

Answer :

1. Stepped into a restaurant

2. Head waiter gently moved him outside

3. Broke a window pane and stood there

4. Cop ran after another man

5. Ate a big dinner and said he had no money

6. Two waiters threw him out into the street

7. Cop laughed and walked away 

8. Danced and shouted at the top of his voice

9. Cop turned his back on him 

10. Said he was a college boy

11. Cop said he had instructions to let them shout

12. Stole a man's umbrella and argued with him 

13. Asked man to call the police but got umbrella instead

14. In anger he threw the umbrella as far as he could

READ ON

Read paragraphs 37 to 50 and complete the statements below.

1. When all his efforts had failed, Soapy went towards the church. On reaching the church, he heard a familiar anthem and suddenly felt he had known it well long ago.

2. We know that Soapy had once belonged to a decent family and lived a happy life because the narrator says in those days his life contained such things as mothers and flowers and high hopes and friends and clean thoughts and clean clothes.

3. An irony is a course of events which has the opposite result to what is expected. The irony in this story is :

(a) When Soapy decided to spend the winter months in prison and did all sorts of petty crimes to get arrested, he was not caught by the police. 

(b)When Soapy decided to lead a decent life, he got arrested.