How It Happened: ASSEB (AHSEC) Class 11 Alternative English notes
Who was Perkins?
Perkins was the writer's chauffeur.
What is the name of the vehicle mentioned in the story
Robur is the name of the vehicle mentioned in the story
What did Stanley die of?
Stanley died of Typhoid fever.
Where did the car crash?
The car crashed on the gate of the house.
How many sharp curves did Claystall Hill have?
The Claystall Hill have three sharp curves.
What was whirring like a high wind?
The wheels of the car were whirring like a high wind.
Why did Perkins said to have been “splendid” in his behavior?
Perkins is said to have been "splendid" in his way of behaving in light of the fact that he was completely cool and alert while the author was losing control over the car.
Where did the narrator meet Stanley a few years prior to the incident? The narrator met Stanley at a college a few years prior to the incident.
Why did the narrator feel no pain?
The narrator felt no pain as he was already dead.
Why did the narrator feel that he was "like a man in a
dream'?
The narrator felt that he was "like a man in a dream" in light of the stunned and shaken state that he was in after his car crashed. Although the narrator felt that he was "like a man in a dream", but in reality he died already and looking on at the scene from another aspect.
Give a brief description of the vehicle mentioned in the story.
The vehicle mentioned in the story was brand new thirty horse-power Robur which had a big motor, glaring head-lights and a sparkle of cleaned brass which had another system for the changing of gears where you needed to push the gear-lever through a gate to get onto the higher ones.
What is the narrator's view about foolishness?
The narrator views on silliness as something that individuals frequently surrendered to and that all foolish acts do not exactly pay the result of them. The narrator claimed that learning new things in the dark was foolish yet he placated himself by saying that " one often does foolish things ".
What did the narrator and Perkins do when they realized that the open gate lay in front of them?
When the narrator and Perkins realized that the open gate lay in front of them, the narrator whirled the steering all his strength and both he and Perkins, threw their bodies across inside the car and the right front wheel of the car collided with the right-hand pillar of the gate.
Why was the narrator amazed when the actual status of Stanley dawned upon him?
The narrator was amazed when the actual status of Stanley dawned upon him because he understood that Stanley had died of typhoid fever quite some time in the past in the Boer War.
Comment on the significance of the ending of the story.
The story starts with the narrator coming from a train at the station. He then meets with his chauffeur and drives his new vehicle home and meets with a mishap in which he dies. The significance of the ending of the story is that the way that our narrator is dead isn't revealed to us till the ending of the story and we are continued to figure the discussions between him and Stanley too seem especially a piece of this aspect and just a lot later do we understand that both the narrator and the Perkins is dead and this comes as somewhat of a shock since we follow his journey from the train station when he was alive till this moment of his death. Therefore, here lies the significance of the story.
Describe the drive undertaken by the narrator from the station to his home.
The narrator drove the car till they arrived at Claystall Hill. The narrator says that the Claystall Hill as one of the most terrible hill in England. It was a mile and a half long and one of every six in places, with three genuinely sharp bends. They had just arrived at the brow of the hill when the difficulty began as the grade was steepest there. The narrator was driving at the top speed and when he needed to switch gears, the gears got stuck and didn't move. The man managed to keep the car on the road for the initial two turns yet found it challenging to control the third. His home was at the lower part of the third bend on the main London Road. He crashed onto the gate of his house and afterward he flew out of the car. This was the moment he died and it was caused by this drive that he had undertaken from the station few moments ago.
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