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23/03/2021 7:25 pm
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Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
Yes, to starve. They feed you in Hell, but when you escape from it you starve.’
(a) Who is the speaker? Who are 'they'?
(b) Why has he come to ‘starving'?
(c) Give the meaning of ‘starve’.
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23/03/2021 7:26 pm
(a) The convict is the speaker. ‘They’ refers to jail authorities.
(b) He is out of jail, but he has no work and no money. He cannot do work for fear of police. So he has come to the state of starvation.
(c) ‘to die of hunger’.