Class 11 English Elective PROSE 5. PAPPACHI'S MOTH
Class 11 English Elective PROSE 5. PAPPACHI'S MOTH प्रश्न बैंक - सह - उत्तर पुस्तक (Question Bank-Cum-Answer Book) Class 11 English Elective ( PROSE) 5.
PAPPACHI'S MOTH - Arundhati Roy MAIN POINTS ☞ The
lesson Pappachi's Moth is an extract from the famous novel 'The God of Small
Things', the first novel by Arundhati Roy. ☞ This
famous novel was awarded the prestigious, Booker Prize in 1997. ☞ The
story starts with an imperial entomologist Shri Bennan John Ipe who is referred
as Pappachi and his wife Shoshamma Ipe who is referred as Mammachi in the
story. ☞ The
names of their children are Ammu and Chacko. ☞ Kochu
Maria or Baby Kochamma was Pappachi's widowed sister. ☞ Mammachi
made pickles commercially and was busy the whole day. ☞ Pappachi
is a retired entomologist but he has been bitter since his discovery of a new
species of moth first rejected but after twelve years, it was considered to be
new and still unknown species to science. ☞ But
the moth was named after the name of the present Acting Director.
