Chapter 3
A Wedding in Brownsville
Page no. 25
1. Who were the Senciminers?
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2. Why did Dr Margolin not particularly want his wife
to accompany him to the wedding?
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Page no. 29
1. What is the Hippocratic oath?
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2. What topic does the merry banter at the wedding
invariably lead to?
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Page no. 34
1. Who was the woman that Dr Margolin suddenly
encountered at the wedding?
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2. What were the events that led to his confused state
of mind?
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Understanding the Text
1. What do you understand of Dr Margolin’s past? How does it
affect his present life?
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2. What was Dr Margolin’s attitude towards his profession?
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3. What is Dr Margolin’s view of the kind of life the American
Jewish community leads?
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4. What were the personality traits that endeared Dr Margolin to
others in his community?
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5. Why do you think Dr Margolin had the curious experience at
the wedding hall?
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6. Was the encounter with Raizel an illusion or was the carousing
at the wedding-hall illusory? Was Dr Margolin the victim of the
accident and was his astral body hovering in the world of
twilight?
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Talking about the Text
Discuss in small groups
1. Fiction often deals with human consciousness, rather than
with the reality of existence.
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2. The ways in which survivors of holocausts deal with life.
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Appreciation
1. Surrealism was an artistic and literary movement in France
between the two World Wars. Its basic idea is that the
automatic, illogical and uncontrolled associations of the mind
represent a higher reality than the world of practical life and
ordinary literature. Do you think this story could be loosely
classified as surrealistic? What elements in this story would
support the idea?
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2. Comment on the technique used by the author to convey the
gruesome realities of the war and its devastating effect on the
psyche of human beings through an intense personal
experience.
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