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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Forster, E. M.
He dies. Kuno, along with the entire human race, dies as the machine malfunctions.
Age. The first line of the story is 'My pedometer told me that I was {twenty-five;} and, though it is a shocking thing to stop walking, I was so tired that I sat down on a milestone to rest.'
His brother. The last line of the story reads: 'The man whose beer I had stolen lowered me down gently to sleep off its effects, and, as he did so, I saw that he was my brother.'
A copse of trees. He gives her Other Kingdom Copse, a small forest of beech trees.
Sunrise and Sunset. Apparently a change due to lack of patronage, the Company suspended hourly service and ran only at sunrise and sunset.
Inside a tree trunk. The shrine had an effect on Mr Lucas, who then felt inclined to remain in nature with the Greeks.
It is the reward for martyrdom. He starts to ask for one, but then says he doesn't want it because 'it is the reward of {martyrdom;} my life has been tranquil and happy.'
The townspeople believed she was pregnant with the antichrist. A prophecy said that her child would marry the Siren and rule the world for eternity. The townspeople wanted to prevent that from happening, so they killed her and her child.
A novel. The novel was about a place the author had been to, but when she returned, she found that the fame the novel had brought to the place had changed it entirely.
Concierge. Feo didn't even immediately remember it when Miss Raby returned, but he had changed anyway.
Because she wants to see the real India. We meet Adela Quested in Chapter three where she is watching Cousin Kate.
It coincides with the anniversary of his wife’s death. It was only after his wife died that he realised he loved her. They had three children - just like Mrs Moore. He had been angry with Major Callendar, but that was earlier in the novel.
Temple. Mosque = Muslim place of worship.
Caves = Ancient primal abode.
Temple = Hindu place of worship.
Club = Where the Anglo-Indians meet to socialise.
Chandrapore. Based on the city of Bankipore.
The accident. The accident prefigures the event at the caves.
Godbole. If Godbole and Fielding hadn't missed the train, then the event at the caves might not have occured.
Das. Ronny's superior. Adela and Mrs Moore meet him and his wife at the Bridge Party.
Punkah-wallah. Forster's description is very interesting here. A punkah-wallah is a servant who operates a fan.
"Almost naked, and splendidly formed, he sat on a raised platform near the back, in the middle of the central gangway, and he caught her (Adela's) attention as she came in, and he seemed to control the proceedings. He had the strength and beauty that sometimes come to flower in Indians of low birth. When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out a god - not many, but one here and there, to prove to society how little its categories impress her. This man would have been notable anywhere; among the thin-hammed, flat-chested mediocrities of Chandrapore he stood out as divine, yet he was of the city, its garbage had nourished him, he would end on its rubbish heaps."
Shri Krishna. Born on the stroke of midnight.
Adela Quested. Because Fielding spent time with Adela after the trial, Aziz thought he'd married her. If he had read Fielding's letters, he would have realised it was Stella.
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