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  3.              The Paper Menagerie -          Ken Liu 1.     “ One of my earliest memories starts with me sobbing. I refused to be soothed no matter what Mom and Dad tried. ” i.                    Where do you find this line? ii.                 Whose memories are referred to here? iii.              How was the speaker actually at last consoled and with what effect? 2.     “ I laughed, startled, and stroked its back with my index finger. ” i.                    Who is ‘ I ’ here? ii.                 What is meant by ‘ Mom’s creation ’? iii.              How was the creation created? 3.     “ “ Zhe jiao zhezhi ,” Mom said. This is called origami . ” i.                    Whom does the speaker say so and when? ii.                 What do you technically mean by ‘ origami ’? iii.              How is this word associated with the story? 4.     “ I didn’t know this at the time, but Mom’s breath was special. She breathed into her paper animals so that they sh

  1.     What is the central theme of Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare? Answer: - Sonnet 116, “Let me not to the marriage of true minds,” is an alluring description of Shakespearean concept of love composed as a sonnet. The central idea of this sonnet is ‘The consistency of love till Doom’s Day’. In the opinion of the poet the true love is always stable, “It is an every-fixed mark”. Love cannot be love if it perishes with time. “Love’s not time’s fool”. Love is the marriage of ‘true minds’ that is permanent in the face of changes.                    Love is a fixed mark assisting the true lovers, just like the pole star that guides sailors to reach their wand’ ring bark.”                    The passage of time destroys everything including a person’s beauty but it does not affect the marriage and union of true minds “Love alter not with his brief hours and weeks.”                    The poet also wrote that his explanation about love is erroneous and if love is not according