First chapter of 12th English by R. K. Narayan.

1. An Astrologer’s Day
-R. K. Narayan

2. Page 3-4
• If the astrologer had stayed in the village then he would have carried on
the work of his forefathers that were: tilling the land, living, marrying, and
ripening in his cornfield and ancestral home.
• The astrologer could understand the problem in five minutes. How?
 The astrologer had a working analysis of mankind’s troubles such as
marriage, money and the tangles of human ties. However, due to long
practice, his perception of understanding’s people was sharpened.
Hence, within five minutes, the astrologer could understand the problem.
• How could the astrologer tell the person about his life?
 Firstly, the astrologer never opened his mouth till the other person had
spoken or at least ten minutes, which provided him enough knowledge
about that person for a dozen answer and advices. Hence, when he would
inform the person that in many ways he was not getting the fullest result
for his efforts or when he questioned anyone about disposition of any
woman from his family or distant relative, people would assume him to be
impulsive and immediately like him.

3. PAGE 4-6
• Pies: a former monetary unit of India and Pakistan, equal to one
twelfth of an anna.
• Tilting: a sloping position
• Bluffing: try to make someone believe that you know or will do
something
• Glimpse: a brief or partial view
• Passer-by: a person who happens to be walking past something or
someone
• Peep: to look quickly or secretly; a glimpse
• Over whelmed: to have a strong emotional effect on
• Groaned: to make a deep sound of pain or despair

4. Page 6-7
• The man was left for dead because he had been attacked by a
knife on his chest and pushed into a well nearby the field.
• What was the load on the astrologer’s mind?
 The astrologer had been thinking that all those years, he had the
blood of a man he killed when he was young; which was the
reason why he ran away from his house, got settled, married and
chose the profession of an astrologer, only to find that the man
was still alive.

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