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“You folk are queer. You think about the past all time. We always think about the future.” (a) Who are ‘you’ and ‘we’ here?

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Read the extract given below and answer the questions/complete the sentences that follow:

“You folk are queer. You think about the past all time. We always think about the future.”

(a) Who are ‘you’ and ‘we’ here?

(b) What is the difference between ‘you’ and’ we?

(c) Why does the speaker can “you” queer?

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(a) ‘You’ are the Frenchmen while ‘we’ are the Americans.

(b) Difference between the Frenchmen and the Americans is in the thinking about past and future respectively.

(c) The speaker calls the Frenchmen queer because they think about the past.

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