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Please remember that it is compulsory to submit your assignment before you an take the Term End Examination. Also remember to keep a copy of your assignment with you and to take a receipt from your Study Centre when you submit the assignment. Last Date for Submission of Assignment: 31st March 30th September For June Examination For December Examination Good Luck! Note: Remember the submission of assignment is a precondition for appearing in the examination. If you do not submit the assignment on time, you will not be allowed to appear in the examination. Foundation course in English – 1 (BEG-II) Assign meet Assignment Code: BEG-1/ATM/2014-15 Max. Marks: 100 Answer all the questions Read the passage and answer the questions that follow: Where shall we meet? – It is a question which may demand a good deal of thought in one of our great overgrown cities. Perhaps the best-known meeting place in the immense city of Tokyo is the statue of the dog in front of Shabbily station. Everyone seems to know the statue of the dog. The dog’s name is Hacks. This is the story. Hacks was born in 1923 in Skit in the north of Japan.
Skit dogs are famous in Japan. They are fairly large, golden-brown in color, and they have pointed ears and sharp, clever faces. They are well-known for their loyalty. It was fortunate for Hacks when a professor of Tokyo University found him. The professor took him to his house not far from Shabbily station, and there he showed himself a good and kind master. The dog loved him. He left the house every morning with the professor and walked along with him as far as Shabbily station. He watched him buy his ticket and disappear towards the train.
Then Hacks used to sit down in the small square and wait for his master’s return from work in the late afternoon. This happened every day. The professor and his dog became a familiar sight, and the story of the faithful animal spread around Shabbily. Then, one afternoon n 1925, there was tragedy. For some time the professor’s health had not been good, and he had a sudden heart-attack at the university. He died before he could be taken home. Back in Shabbily, the dog waited in front of the station. Soon the news of the professor’s sudden death reached Shabbily. People immediately thought of the poor dog which had followed him every day.
Several of them had the same thought. They went to the little square and spoke to the dog – as if he could understand them. ‘Go home, good dog. The professor won’t be coming. Go home. ‘ The next morning Hacks was seen in front of the station, waiting for his master. The following day he was there again. And the next day. And the next. The days became weeks, the weeks month, the months years. Still the dog arrived in front of the station every morning, searching among the strange faces for the one that he loved. In rain and sunshine, wind and snow, the faithful animal was there.
He was a young dog, ten months old, when his master died; he grew old; but the daily wait continued. He became a public hero – the best-loved figure in Shabbily. Travelers returning to Shabbily after a long absence always asked about him. In 1934 the good people of Shabbily asked Term And, a famous Japanese Sculptor, to make a statue of their friend Hacks. He did it gladly, and the statue was set up in front of the station. For another year Hacks came every morning to wait, in the shadow of his own statue, for his master. In 1935 the faithful dog died, but not before Nod’s work had become famous all over Tokyo.
During the war the statue was melted down, and And, the fine sculptor was killed. But the people of Shabbily remembered Hacks. They formed a society for the Replacement of Hashish’s Statue, and this society asked Term Nod’s son, Takes And, to make a new statue. Today the fine statue of Hacks stands in the diddle of the busy and friendly square in front of Shabbily station. You will always see somebody telling the story of Hacks to a child or a grown-up friend. B LLC old If Why do you think the statue of a dog was such an important landmark in Tokyo?