Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
I -I didn’t believe there was any good in the world One doesn't when one has been in Hell, but somehow, I -I know you're good and, and it’s a queer thing to ask but, but could you, would you bless me before I go? I-I think it would help me.
(a) Why didn’t the speaker believe that there was any good left in the world?
(b) How did the speaker know about hell?
(c) Why did he seek the Bishop’s blessing?
(а) The speaker believed so as he had been ill-treated and tortured all those years for a petty crime.
(b) The speaker knew about hell as he had been in prison where conditions were as bad as in hell.
(c) He sought the Bishop’s blessings so that he could begin his life anew like a normal human being.