Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
Ah, thanks, thanks, Monseigneur. I-(He sobs.) Ah, I’m a fool, a child to cry, but somehow you have made me feel that-that it is just as if something had come into me-as if I were a man again and not a wild beast.
(a) Why does the speaker thank the Bishop?
(b) What did the Bishop make the Convict feel?
(c) Why does the Convict feel as if he were a man again and not a beast?
(a) The Convict thanks the Bishop for saving him from getting arrested and going to that hellish prison once again.
(b) The Convict felt as if he were a transformed man with human feelings.
(c) Because the Convict is no more a hardened and ferocious beast. He is sobbing like a child and is filled with human feelings once more.