Hum of Insects - Student Notes

Hum of insects – Question Answers 1.

Bring out instances of contrasting reactions that we have for insects.

Insects are part of our lives and that doesn’t mean that we like to have them with us. While a bee or wasp is gentle we do not like their compan! in our bed rooms though we like them in a garden. ".

Why is a mosquito always waved away, even in a garden?

#he mos$uito is an unscrupulous enem! that attacks without waiting to be attacked. It stings an!one whether he is the gentlest or the most dangerous man in the world. %ecause a mos$uito is a beast of pre! and is out for food we wave it awa! even in a garden. &.

What is a mosquito’s approach to t o Tom Tom Pinch?

#om 'inch is a protot!pe of peace who goes loved b! all but a mos$uito whether it knows #om 'inch or otherwise attacks him without an! reason and abandons him onl! when it is waved awa! or killed b! the most lovable #om 'inch himself. (.

What do you know aout the lind passion that insects such as ees and wasps have for reprisal!revenge? "# Why are innocent people attacked y insects?

%ees and wasps are comparativel! gentler than the unscrupulous mos$uito !et the! e)hibit a wild passion for revenge. If the! are attacked b! someone even a mad dog in the countr! side the! take revenge b! attacking someone else an!one whose sight their e!es catch first. It is therefore that innocent people are sometimes attacked b! wasps and bees. *.

Why doesn’t the author $ustify the ee’s stinging a human eing for stealing its honey?

#he author doesn’t +ustif! the bee’s act of attacking the human being for stealing its hone! because man is the master of this partiall! civili,ed world.

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%ow is the ee morally higher in the scale than the mosquito?

 A bee is gentle. gentle. It doesn’t doesn’t attack attack unless unless it is attacked. attacked. A mos$uito mos$uito on the ver! other other hand stings an!one for blood. %esides a bee the producer of hone! doesn’t cause malaria as the mos$uito does. Apart from helping the strawberries and mulberr! to multipl! bees prefer a ver! calm inoffensive life. .

When do oth, the ee and the wasp, ecome tedious company?

When a bee or wasp though gentle in character enters our bedroom at two in the morning and bu,,es behind our pillow the! become tedious compan!. #hough we can avoid getting stung b! not moving l!ing motionless till the inoffensive bee or wasp had flown awa! it is not desirable to tr! this preventive when sleep is dearest and time is passing b!. /.

What is, in the author’s opinion, the infallile preventive against a wasp’s stinging while one is roused from sleep y its crawling over the face?

%ees and wasps do not attack us without being attacked. If a wasp or bee alights on our face and wake us dearl! earl! in the morning one can remain motionless and see the insect fl! awa! after a $uiet harmless sta! on our face. 0.

Which are the three possile reasons under which the hum of insects delights us?

In spite of the fact that the hum insects often irritate us the! are on the other hand delightful because the! become part of some universal music the! also take us back to our childhood 12.

%ow can the hum of insects delight us?

Hum of insects can delight us owing to the surroundings the! are heard and with the past events associated to the sounds. %esides when we hear these sounds something in our blood and breath responds to the rh!thm of these sounds. 11. 11.

What are the three sounds that &ynd refer to as the three noises that appear to have an infinite capacity for giving us pleasure?

3oises of insects the noises of birds and the sound of the sea possess infinite capacit! for giving us pleasure.

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Why are grownups not ale to hear the hum of insects? What do they hear instead?

#he grown4ups are too bus! with living their lives. Worries and an)iet! keep them far  awa! from the nature so the! fail to en+o! the free gifts of the nature. #he! miss the hum of insects. #he! miss the fond memories of their childhood and the! seldom believe that the! had a childhood. 1&.

%ow is the hum of insects that one hears at a late stage of his life associated with one’s childhood? "#, %ow is the hum of insects is a pleasure of reminiscence 'memories(?

 As the hum hum of insects insects and noises of of birds are are associated associated with with nature and seasons seasons so are the! connected to our life right from our childhood. When we grow up these sounds occasionall! pull us back to our childhood. In a wa! our happiness other than that achieved from people has its origin in the nature in spring and summer in the hum and noises of insects and birds. 1(.

)*t was a present that overflowed with kindness, though everyody else e+cept the o+ and the ass elieved that it was only y the skin of our teeth that any of us would escape eing urnt alive for eternity. %ow does this statement e+plain childhood’s serenity and innocence? o

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-erenity In childhood children e)perience the world around them as kind with them. 5enerall! children are not treated harshl! so the! believe that the world with the hum of insects and farms and gardens is kind. Here the! believe that grandpas are alwa!s gentle and believe their aunts who lie to the hungr! children that the biscuits that the! have brought are for the dogs. *nnocence 6ur childhood is full of fair! tales and the world around us is more like a dream than realit!. #here was a time when we believed in heaven and hell and punishment. We were told stories about that hell where people with onl! such teeth that have skins of certain color can escape the fire of the hell. Why does the author elieve that only nature has lasting impressions in

our mind?

#he author looking at the natural beaut! and the to!s that we love in childhood concludes that we seldom remember our to!s and the +o! the! gave us and

establishes that we can never so much forget our gardens their flowers with fragrance and the farm. 1-.

What are the illusions that we have in the childhood?

7uring childhood we have the illusion that the 8pring will never cease 9end: and that the happiness will never be over. 1.

Why are we still ale to appreciate the hum of insects even at a very later stage of our life?

Hum of insects is connected to our childhood memories and to our senses connected to autumns and springs in the past. ;ven when we hear the hum of insects at a ver! later age we are able to return to our childhood. 1/.

Why does the author compare children’s world to oah’s /rk?

3oah’s Ark is the perfect place to compare childhood with for so man! reasons.
Why does the author end in a negative note?

 After having having discussed discussed the the manifold manifold aspects aspects of the heavenl! sounds of insects insects the author concludes in a negative note because he sees the realit! that in the modern world people have got no time to en+o! the nature’s sounds. 6ur life is restricted from all directions like a heav! weight stopping the movement of a top. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>