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hello namaskar vanakam with the
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photographer that's part of the treasure
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chest icsc class 10 English literature
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syllabus I hope you have already seen
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the short video that I did in which I
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explained the themes of this particular
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story talked about the characters and
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what is it that we are essentially in
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for as far as this short story is
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concerned so please to have a look at
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that short video because it'll help you
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understand this particular story better
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in this video I'm going to do a line by
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line word by word explanation of this
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entire story so that it's easy for you
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to attempt any questions and also
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thereafter look at the uh attempt any
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questions and look at the larger
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thematic uh questions that this
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particular story raises as well so let's
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get straight into the
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story okay so this is an image generated
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about the photographer as you can see uh
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this particular this is a story about
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two characters the narrator written I
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mean in first person account and then
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the photographer so this image will help
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you kind of get an idea about the kind
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of person we are talking about in this
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short story now it starts by I want my
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photograph
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taken I said the photographer looked at
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me without enthusiasm now this
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particular line is important because it
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is telling you about the narrator's
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first
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impression about the photographer he
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looked at me without
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enthusiasm please mark this as a key
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phrase it instantly tells you about the
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photographers
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temperament
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my handwriting keeps going for it
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because I have to hold this Spen in a
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particular slant and that kind of upsets
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my handwriting it tells you about his
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disposition and temperament
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okay he was a drooping now he describes
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his physical features he was a trooping
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man in a gray suit gray again kind of
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you know conveys a sense of
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dullness okay slightly insipid kind of
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nature insipid again conveys the same
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thing you know not someone very bright
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with the Tim eye of a natural scientist
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now this is an important phrase all
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these are important key phrases please
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mark them either in your book or write
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them in a separate notebook now this
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particular phrase Paints the picture of
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the photographer as someone who is
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extremely observant
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when you say natural scientist
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scientists are known to have an eye for
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detail they look at the minute things in
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great detail so it gives you a sense
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that he's extremely analytical extremely
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observant right it's like a scientist
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who is studying a specimen for example
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you know in a biology lab right but at
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the same time the use of the word dim ey
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it kind of also conveys that this while
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he's
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observing that observation lacks any
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kind of warmth it is not friendly in
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nature it does not have any kind of an
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emotional connection right it's not
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friendly it doesn't have an emotional
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connection it is not something which
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makes you feel wanted it doesn't make
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you feel liked or loved or you know
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there is that kind of a friendly
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connection is not established
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so it kind of gives you a sense of a bit
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of an odd behavior as far as the
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photographer is concerned understood but
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he says at the same
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time but there's no need to describe him
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everybody knows what a photographer is
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like he says that this is how most
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photographers seem to be like so the
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narrator seems to have met some other
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photographer who is also a bit like this
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peculiar slightly odd so he says there's
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no really need to describe him I mean in
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more detail than this because he thought
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this was the most peculiar part of it
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the other parts are like what all
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photographers look like right so there's
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really no need to understand because I'm
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sure you know what a photographer really
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looks like now
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uh the other important point that I want
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to highlight is that the there is an
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element of humor out here you know you
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don't need to this thing you know
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everybody knows what a photographer
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looks like because
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photographers and I have known many
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photographers uh people associated with
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the audio visual
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medium are generally known to be very
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warm people because they keep trying to
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talk to you trying to amuse you in order
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to get the right kind of expression
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right so when you say that he was a cold
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detached kind of a person almost
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resembling a natural scientist that
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makes the comparison seem very ironic
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very odd and therefore a bit humorous
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okay so that's how the element of humor
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is injected out there he said sit there
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he said and wait I waited an hour now
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that seems a little strange because
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nobody in the photo studio would
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normally uh make you wait for an
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hour uh also let me add one more thing
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that you know the the the narrator is
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also assuming that most people would be
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familiar with the image and the
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personality of a photographer right so
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it kind of creates a sense of
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familiarity with the theme the topic of
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the entire uh story itself with the
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photographer is the title itself of the
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story right so uh it kind of allows when
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he says that you know everyone knows
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what photographer looks like is like so
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it allows the reader when he says that
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line to me in my mind I'm also creating
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the image of a photographer so in that
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sense the character is universalized you
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know everyone all of us have gone to a
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photo studio at some point or time or
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the other to click a passport size
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photograph to fill in for some
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application for an examination etc etc
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or to apply for a passport so it makes
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the photographer relatable to the
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reader now sit there he said and wait I
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waited an hour I read the L's companion
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for 1912 the girls magazine for 1902 and
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the infants journal for 1888 so he seems
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to have a stack of books running past
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behind I mean running into many years
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right many old copies I began to see
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that I had done an unwarrantable thing
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in breaking in on the privacy of this
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man's scientific Pursuits with a face
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like mine now first thing waited for an
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hour what does it convey what does this
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convey it conveys that the narrator is
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an
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extremely patient kind of person okay
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the second thing that it conveys is that
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the photographer is not bothered he's
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not bothered about keeping a customer
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waiting for one full are right that's
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what is a
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negative trait in the
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photographer but it is the author who is
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feeling apologetic because he says that
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I felt I had done an unwarrantable thing
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unwarrantable means something which
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should not have been done you know
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something which was not warranted means
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something which should not have been
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done because he seemed he feels that he
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kind of disturbed the privacy
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of this particular photographer while he
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was engaged in his work and his work for
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the second time he uses the word related
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to science so he feels that he's almost
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a scientist by his looks by his entire
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demeanor and he feels that I intruded
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into his timey and that also with a face
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like mine so you see even he is not
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completely confident about his own looks
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so he says with a face like mine so it
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means that he does not think very highly
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the narrator does not think very highly
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of his own looks so that's an important
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element that you need to bear in mind
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yes the photographer does later alter
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the way the photograph comes out however
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the narrator himself at least at this
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stage says that with a face like mine
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you know Mary Shak
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kind of thing they say know very rudely
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in Hindi it's a bit like
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that after an hour the photographer open
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the inner door he said come in he said
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severely again you see this also conveys
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a slightly rude kind of disposition it
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conveys that the person is very
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Grim by Nature
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right I went into the studio sit down
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said the photographer there's no please
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sit done I sat down in a beam of
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sunlight filtered through a sheet of
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factory cotton hung against a frosted
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Skylight so that's how the photo studios
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inner room where the photograph would be
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shot is looking like there is a beam of
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sunlight and that's kind of filtering
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through a sheet of factory cotton so
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again something maybe a little coarse c
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a RS e that is rough hung against a
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frosted Skyline
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now
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um the photographer rolled a machine
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into the middle of the room and crawled
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into it from behind now the word crawled
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obviously suggests that it is a bit of a
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cramped kind of a space there isn't much
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space for him to move around behind the
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camera naturally he's almost
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crawling into it and obviously maybe
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putting that black cloth Etc if it was
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an oldtime kind of a photo studio he was
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only in it for a second just time enough
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for one look at me so he's gone inside
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seen the subject and immediately comes
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out and then he was out again tearing at
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the cotton sheet tearing conveys a sense
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of annoyance that he's not too happy
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with what he saw through the lens and
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the window paints with a hooked stick
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apparently frantic for light and air so
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he's making those kind of adjustments
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then he crawled back into the machine
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again and Drew a little black cloth over
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himself what I told you normally they do
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that right you would have seen it in a
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photograph studio photo
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studio this time he was very quiet in
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there so you see also the narrator is
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very observant he's kind of describing
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to you very very minute details I knew
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that he was praying and I kept still now
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I knew that he was praying and I kept
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still this statement lends a sense of
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humor H but it's also very ironic
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because it's very unlikely that a
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photographer would be sitting there and
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praying before taking a photograph or
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while taking a photograph so there's an
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element of what there's an element of
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exaggeration uh that also points to the
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narrator's awkward position because when
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the photograph is to be taken you're
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almost like still with a smile on your
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face normally right so it's also he's
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taking his own time and he feels
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that that kind of a feeling while he's
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trying to hold his position maybe his
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breath maybe his smile maybe his
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expression right uh and talking about
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the
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photographer praying also makes the
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entire line feel very absurd so this is
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what is an example of uh the author's
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very light-hearted kind of humor uh the
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statement also reveals the unease of the
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narrator you know he's feeling very
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uneasy I mean why is it taking so long
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it just needs to press the shutter and
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I'm done why is it taking so long and
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he's kind of unsure about how he should
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react I kept still the fact that he says
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I kept still holding the expression
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holding the smile holding I mean
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ensuring that he's not blinking right
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lest the photograph comes with his eyes
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closed right so also he seems to be a
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little intimidated by the photographer
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who is not a very friendly kind of a
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person so he does not want to disturb
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him while he thinks almost as if he's
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inside
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praying so he doesn't want to disturb
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the supposed prayers of the photographer
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it highlights the narrator's timid
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personality he's a little I wouldn't say
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derpo but he's a little timid and his
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tendency to defer to Authority because
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the
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person because of his demeanor has kind
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of established that you know I'm not a
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very friendly s so he because he's a
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timid personality he's kind of differing
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to that Authority Deering means uh he's
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kind
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of uh
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feeling in a slightly inferior position
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bab that Authority he's feeling as
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though that person is in a slightly
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Superior position uh and he should not
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try to make him annoyed in any way uh
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that kind of a thing and he's not very
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comfortable with this very awkward
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strange kind of position I hope I have
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made this elaborately
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clear I've elaborated it on a bit too
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much so in terms of the plot this
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particular statement I knew that he was
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praying how would he know I don't know I
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knew that he was praying and I kept
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still it kind of creates a sense of
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suspense you would wonder why you why
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does he think or why does he know that
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he was praying inside when the
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photographer came out at last he looked
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very grave grave means very serious at
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the same time you know what a grave
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means in context of death right so it
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does not give you a good feel you first
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say he was praying then you use a word
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like
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grave I wonder why and shook his head
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the face is quite wrong he
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said the face is quite wrong so the word
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grave has a slightly ominous kind of
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tone okay it also conveys that the
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photographer is a very serious kind of
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personality very disapproving when he
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says that the face is quiet
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wrong I know I answered quietly I have
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always known it now with a face like
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mine he said before now he's saying I
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have always known that the face is quite
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wrong so he's agreeing with it so you
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realize that the
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narrator is a very timid kind of
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personality he does not stand up and say
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how dare you say that the face is wrong
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it's my face I've come to take a
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photograph take the photograph the way
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it is he does not say that he sides side
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means again it's it is a sign of
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extreme
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disapproval I think he said the face
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would be better three quarters full now
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uh it's it's a funny way of saying that
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the photographer wants a better angle of
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the face by turning the head slightly
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now he says I want a three quarter
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profile instead of a full profile it
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means something like that it also shows
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his obsession with technical Perfection
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but he obviously lacks understanding of
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human emotions by saying that the face
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is all wrong right to say that the face
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is quite wrong needs to be three
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quarters full as if you know the face is
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like a vessel Bon you are feeling in
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something you know it's almost being
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said with the kind of phrases that he's
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using the kind of vocabulary he's using
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using it's offensive and it's almost
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kind of you know equating him with a
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vessel I'm sure I said enthusiastically
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for I was glad I'm sure it would that it
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would it would be better if it was three
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quarters full um I said enthusiastically
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now what it conveys the way he the
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photographer puts it and also the
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narrator agreed with it the
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photographers inability to communicate
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politely to communicate effectively uh
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uh the very odd behavior of the
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photographer for I was glad to find that
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the man had such a human side to him how
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wrong could that could he be he feels
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that the man is actually being very
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Humane by saying it again shows a very
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timid side of his so he's kind of uh
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going with all the very unnatural and
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impolite observations being made by the
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photographer he's accepting all of that
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he's accepting all of that even if it
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doesn't quite fully understand it so
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would yours in fact and then he goes on
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to say tumar Shak would be better three
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quarters full in fact how many faces one
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sees that are apparently Hard narrow
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limited but the minute you get them
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three quarters full they get wide large
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almost boundless in and his sentence
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doesn't get kind of uh completed okay so
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he's trying to say that you know there
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will be many faces which would kind of
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you know uh not be okay but the moment
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you shoot it in a certain manner it
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would look better but the photographer
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had ceased to listen means he had kind
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of shut him off he was not even
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listening to what this guy had to uh say
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it also
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reinforces this particular thing it kind
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of reinforces that he is very brisk in
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nature he doesn't
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care he has gone on he came over and
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took my head in his hands and twisted it
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sideways that's what he wants that kind
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of a profile picture I thought he meant
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to kiss me you know he he again
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misunderstands and I closed my eyes
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weird not okay but I was
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wrong I was wrong Weir I meant as in his
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reaction uh but I was wrong he twisted
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my face as far as it would go and then
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stood looking at it okay
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you know till such time that the neck
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would allow it he side again again
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showing disapproval I don't like the
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head he said then he went back to the
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machine and took another look through
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the lens open the mouth a little he said
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I started to do so close it he added
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quickly then he looked again the ears
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are bad he said droop them a little more
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as though you can really droop your eyes
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you're not an elephant are you thank you
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now the eyes roll them in under the lips
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I know like inside the lips you kind of
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roll them put the hands on the knees
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please first time he's saying please and
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turn the face just a little upward you
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see photographers have that habit
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they'll always say look up like this you
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know it will not be like looking
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directly at the camera they'll say look
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up at like this for reasons I've never
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been able to understand and turn the
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face because they want to catch the
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light on the face but it makes the face
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face look very upward and turn the face
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just a little upward yes that's better
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now just expand the lungs so and hump
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the neck that's it now hump the neck
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means Arch the neck forward like this
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okay and just contract the waist ha and
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twist the hip up toward the
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elbow now I still don't quite like the
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face it's just a triple to full triple
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means just a bit too full so you see the
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detailing he's getting into every part
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of his body the upper part is about the
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knees he's getting into he wants the
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posture to be just about right for him
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to get the right
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photograph and then he doesn't like it
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okay this is the other image that
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created I swing myself round on the
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stool though here is sitting on the
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stool that is on the chair or the stool
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that he was sitting on stop now he
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decides that I don't like what he's
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saying he's kind of condemning okay to
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an extent I agreed
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fine but if you keep on hammering at it
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I am not really going to be very amused
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stop I said with emotion
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H but I think with dignity
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he said it emotionally but he ALS it was
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also a very dignified kind of voice this
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face is my face it is not yours it is
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mine I own it I have lived with it for
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40 years and I know it's false okay I
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know it's not the greatest phas but I it
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is my phase I've lived with it for 40
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years that's how we know the age and I
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know it's false I know it's out of
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drawing in the sense it is
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not of perfect
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proportions I know it wasn't made for me
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but it is my face maybe it was not made
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for me you know I could have had a
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better face but then it is my face and
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this is the only face I have I was
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conscious now he's getting very
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emotional as he's saying it because he
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feels that he's being humiliated for no
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reason by the photographer I was
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conscious of he's getting emotional you
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know his voice is breaking I was
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conscious of a break in my voice but I
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went on such as it is I have learned to
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love it in the sense that it's the only
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face this is my face and because this is
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my only face I have begun to love it and
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this is my mouth not yours these ears
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are mine and if your machine is very
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narrow and he started to rise from the
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seat to hell with you
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how dare you insult my looks like this
00:24:02
my face like
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this
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right so he's getting very emotional and
00:24:09
giving it back to the photographer in as
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dignified a voice as he
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could T he clicks the photograph the
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photographer had pulled a string the
00:24:22
photographer the photograph had been
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taken I could see the machine still
00:24:26
staggering from the shock so the whole
00:24:28
machine was kind of kind of shaking as a
00:24:31
result of that press of the
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shutter in this case maybe it's an old
00:24:37
child photograph which is why some
00:24:38
string may have been pulled I think said
00:24:40
the photographer pursing his lips
00:24:42
pursing his lips like this in a pleased
00:24:45
smile so the first time you see the
00:24:48
photographer was pleased and it shows
00:24:50
his obsession with taking a perfect
00:24:55
photograph till now he was very
00:24:57
disapproved of his subject but now for
00:25:00
the first time he had what the narrator
00:25:03
says a pleased smile caught the features
00:25:07
just in a moment of Animation animation
00:25:10
is you know you're not sitting there
00:25:12
here and saying okay now let me tell you
00:25:15
the story of with the photographer okay
00:25:19
this is part of your icsc treasure chest
00:25:22
textbook if I start telling you
00:25:25
explaining you videos like this you
00:25:27
would PR press the stop button I know
00:25:30
that I'm naturally an animated kind of
00:25:33
person so it helps but otherwise also
00:25:35
you need to and especially when it is a
00:25:37
virtual medium even in a classroom
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physical classroom you need to get the
00:25:42
students interested isn't that so so he
00:25:46
says I caught the features just in a
00:25:49
moment of Animation why was it animated
00:25:51
because that was the point when the
00:25:54
narrator was getting annoyed and he was
00:25:57
speaking in an emotional state of mind
00:26:00
however in a dignified manner so he
00:26:03
feels that while he was expressing
00:26:05
himself his angst his anger the fact
00:26:09
that he was upset at the photographer's
00:26:11
reaction the photographer thought that
00:26:13
he had caught the right expression the
00:26:15
right animated kind of expression though
00:26:19
I know it for a fact that uh if you go
00:26:21
for um a Visa photograph especially to
00:26:24
the USA the photographer will tell you
00:26:26
do not smile do not smile they make you
00:26:29
take your of his spe and do not smile
00:26:32
also you have to have a very stoic kind
00:26:35
of
00:26:36
expression so I said bitingly features
00:26:40
huh you didn't think I could animate
00:26:42
them I suppose but let me see the
00:26:44
picture so he says that ah features um I
00:26:49
mean what features you thought I could
00:26:51
not animate you think I was a very dull
00:26:53
kind of a person anyway let me see the
00:26:55
picture no no there's nothing to see yet
00:26:56
I have to develop the negative first so
00:26:58
an old style photo studio come back on
00:27:01
Saturday and I will let you see a for
00:27:03
proof of it on Saturday I went back the
00:27:06
photographer beckoned me in beckon me in
00:27:10
means he made
00:27:12
him come inside he made him come
00:27:16
inside which kind of is a little more
00:27:19
welcome than the first time where he
00:27:20
made him wait for one hour you know he
00:27:22
just said sit there and wait and called
00:27:25
him after one hour right this time he
00:27:27
kind of called him in
00:27:28
I thought he seemed quieter and Graver
00:27:31
than before Graver means more serious
00:27:34
and more quiet than before okay this is
00:27:38
more
00:27:40
serious I think too there was a certain
00:27:43
pride in his manner in what he had
00:27:46
managed to achieve with the narrator's
00:27:49
photograph so he kind of sens that he
00:27:51
was feeling good about what he had
00:27:53
managed to do right so it all kind of
00:27:57
conveys the that he takes in his work he
00:28:00
unfolded the proof of a large photograph
00:28:02
and we both looked at it in silence he
00:28:06
took out the photograph is it me I asked
00:28:10
so you see right from the first
00:28:11
impression he thinks he korka
00:28:14
photographic yes he said quietly it is
00:28:17
you and we went on looking at
00:28:19
it the eyes I said hesitatingly
00:28:23
hesitatingly because it shows that he's
00:28:26
still a little intimidated and he's a
00:28:29
little hesitant about not rubbing him
00:28:33
the wrong way you know he doesn't want
00:28:34
to get on his wrong side the eyes don't
00:28:38
look very much like
00:28:40
mine they're not looking like mine oh no
00:28:44
he answered I retouched them they come
00:28:45
out splend splendidly don't
00:28:53
they fine but surely my eyebrows don't
00:28:57
look like that not like that that no
00:28:59
said the photographer with a momentary
00:29:01
glance at my face he looks at me and say
00:29:03
no the eyebrows are removed we have a
00:29:05
process now the deli for putting in new
00:29:08
ones so he says that there is a new kind
00:29:11
of a
00:29:12
process with which you can remove the uh
00:29:17
I mean old one and put in new ones now
00:29:19
Deli is not a term which is usually
00:29:22
associated with photography so it seems
00:29:24
to have been made up by the author out
00:29:27
here uh a fictional process the
00:29:29
photographer claims to use okay so it is
00:29:34
very obvious from the manner that the
00:29:36
photographer is in love with his craft
00:29:38
you know when he says don't they aren't
00:29:40
they looking good don't they it's a
00:29:42
rhetorical question he expects that the
00:29:44
person will say yes they do but this guy
00:29:46
not he is not very happy with him with
00:29:49
it
00:29:50
right you will notice here where we have
00:29:53
applied it to carry the hair away from
00:29:56
the bro I brow I don't like the hair low
00:30:00
on the skull so he's saying I don't like
00:30:05
it who gave you the right to decide
00:30:08
whether you like the hair on the skull
00:30:10
or not right so he says that I didn't
00:30:13
like it so I removed it using this
00:30:15
particular process but you don't don't
00:30:17
you he's also asking him a rhetorical
00:30:19
question and he's now getting a little
00:30:22
annoyed no he went on I don't care for
00:30:25
it I like to see get the hair clear back
00:30:27
to the superficies and make out a new BR
00:30:30
line so he says I want the hair to be
00:30:31
moved back and then I will make a new
00:30:34
eyebrow what about the
00:30:36
mouth what about the mouth he I said
00:30:39
with the bitterness that was lost on the
00:30:41
author the photographer is that mine is
00:30:43
it what about the
00:30:45
mouth and now he's getting very
00:30:47
sarcastic and bitter he's angry now okay
00:30:51
so you see the temperament
00:30:53
changing every time initially he's a
00:30:55
little timid and then the photograph
00:30:58
IR him irritates him so much that his
00:31:01
anger starts coming out it's adjusted a
00:31:03
little yours is too low I found I
00:31:05
couldn't use it hello hello as sguru
00:31:09
would say hello the years though I said
00:31:12
strike me as a good likeness they're
00:31:15
just like mine
00:31:17
okay yes that's so but I can fix all
00:31:20
right that all right change we have a
00:31:23
process now called the sulfide for
00:31:25
removing the ears entirely and then he
00:31:27
can recreate the
00:31:30
years that's what he's trying to convey
00:31:33
sulfide again like Deli I will see if
00:31:37
and this time like last time the
00:31:39
photographer was not cut him off this
00:31:42
time he cuts him off listen I
00:31:45
interrupted drawing
00:31:51
myself wa minute
00:31:54
H is it okay he says listen I
00:32:00
interrupted drawing myself up means he's
00:32:03
kind of summoning all the courage okay
00:32:06
and animating my features to their full
00:32:08
extent so he's very animated at this
00:32:10
point in time and speaking with a
00:32:13
withering scone withering scone suggests
00:32:15
anger and bitterness
00:32:19
okay that should have blasted the man on
00:32:21
the spot because he's getting so angry
00:32:23
that he could have that anger could have
00:32:26
that SCA could have blasted the man on
00:32:28
the spot listen I came here for a
00:32:32
photograph a picture something which mad
00:32:36
though it seems would have looked like
00:32:39
me you may think it is mad but it would
00:32:43
have looked like me I wanted something
00:32:45
that would depict my face as Heaven gave
00:32:48
it to me okay so he's kind of making a
00:32:51
connection that heaven is what gave Gods
00:32:54
gave this face to me it's a humble gift
00:32:58
that the gods have given to me I wanted
00:33:01
something that my friends might keep
00:33:03
after my death so that they can
00:33:06
reconcile to my loss you know okay he
00:33:09
died but now this Photograph does not
00:33:11
even look like me you have altered it
00:33:14
completely it seems that I was mistaken
00:33:17
what I wanted is no longer done go on
00:33:20
then with your brutal work what you have
00:33:23
done is murdering my face it is brutal
00:33:27
what you have done this is an important
00:33:29
key phrase what you have done is brutal
00:33:33
he's using very strong words take your
00:33:36
negative or whatever it is you call it
00:33:38
dip it in sulfide bromide oxide cowhide
00:33:41
he's kind of trying to rhyme it cowhide
00:33:45
means leather made from the skin of a
00:33:46
cow but here he's just kind of rhyming
00:33:49
it sulfide bromide oxide cowhide
00:33:51
anything you like remove the eyes
00:33:53
correct the mouth adjust the face
00:33:55
restore the lips reanimate the neck tie
00:33:58
and reconstruct the waist coat coat it
00:34:00
with an inch of gloss you know make it
00:34:02
more glamorous shade it emboss it you
00:34:05
mean kind of give it a layer of
00:34:08
something decorative gild it means cover
00:34:10
it with gold till even you acknowledge
00:34:14
that it is
00:34:15
finished then when you have done all
00:34:18
that keep it for yourself I don't need
00:34:21
it and your friends they may value it
00:34:25
they may value it to me it is is but a
00:34:29
worthless Bobble it is but it is only a
00:34:33
worthless Bobble worthless Bobble bobble
00:34:37
describes a small cheap ornament a
00:34:42
small
00:34:44
cheap ornament it's piece of jewelry but
00:34:48
it's a very small and a very cheap not a
00:34:50
very expensive ornament which has very
00:34:53
little or no real value worthless
00:34:56
emphasizes the narrator's complete
00:35:00
dissatisfaction with the photograph he
00:35:02
does not consider it to be a valuable
00:35:06
representation of his personality of his
00:35:09
face of his looks and therefore he
00:35:12
considers it completely useless and
00:35:15
completely unimportant right I broke
00:35:18
into tears and left he completely broke
00:35:22
down he was so animated so emotional
00:35:26
that he broke down into years and left
00:35:29
that photographers photo studio so why
00:35:33
is the photograph considered worthless
00:35:35
because it's not an accurate
00:35:37
representation of the way the narrator
00:35:39
looks because the photograph does not
00:35:41
resemble him at all the photographer has
00:35:45
retouched
00:35:46
it recalibrated it excessively using
00:35:50
different devices and he has altered it
00:35:53
to such an extent that the photograph is
00:35:55
completely unrecognizable as the
00:35:58
photographer as the visual
00:36:00
representation of this 40-year-old
00:36:02
narrator he feels the narrator feels
00:36:04
that he has taken away all his unique
00:36:07
characteristics so he has as a result
00:36:10
this is an important phrase that you
00:36:11
should use he has lost his
00:36:15
individuality in
00:36:18
that in the
00:36:22
photograph in the photograph okay he
00:36:25
wanted an accurate representation so
00:36:26
that his friends could could remember
00:36:28
him from the photograph after his death
00:36:29
but what he has given it given him looks
00:36:32
nowhere like his real person so the
00:36:35
workless Bobble obviously one of the
00:36:37
most important phrases used in this
00:36:39
particular story it
00:36:41
underlines his complete disillusionment
00:36:44
as I said with the photographics
00:36:46
photographers work and the photographic
00:36:49
process so what it underlines as I
00:36:52
explained to you in the first video is
00:36:54
the need for authenticity okay what is
00:36:57
real is always more
00:37:00
valuable and it is and whatever is
00:37:03
altered and artificial is like a
00:37:05
worthless bubble so you need to take a
00:37:08
call whether you want the real person or
00:37:10
you want a worthless bubble okay so
00:37:13
that's what it talks about so it it
00:37:16
talks about U the
00:37:18
individuality versus what this guy is
00:37:21
representing Society to an extent the
00:37:24
society expects you to look like
00:37:26
something at a larger level if you look
00:37:28
at it more philosophically you are
00:37:31
something like this but the society
00:37:33
expects you to look like something
00:37:35
different now whether you would want to
00:37:37
change yourself based on what the
00:37:39
society wants or whether you say that
00:37:41
this is how I will be and this is the
00:37:43
way I will continue to do because I feel
00:37:45
this is my individuality you understand
00:37:49
so that's another way of looking at this
00:37:51
entire story so uh the third thing which
00:37:56
you need to be mind ful of is also the
00:37:59
theme of power
00:38:01
dynamics okay the theme of power
00:38:05
dynamics see what I will do is closer to
00:38:08
your examination we will be putting out
00:38:09
test papers in which many of these
00:38:11
question and answers in the test papers
00:38:13
will be discussed but the theme of power
00:38:16
D and our s SW success test papers are
00:38:18
always a huge hit the theme of power
00:38:21
dynamics the you know the power
00:38:23
equations between the photographer he's
00:38:25
intimidated then he gives him a piece of
00:38:28
his mind then he leaves then he comes
00:38:30
back again he's a little timid but then
00:38:32
when he sees his photograph altered so
00:38:35
brutally he decides he can't take it in
00:38:38
and he gets very emotional breaks down
00:38:41
and leaves that photo studio okay
00:38:45
so while it is it makes use of
00:38:49
light-hearted humor it also delivers an
00:38:52
extremely important message uh that we
00:38:55
need to uh bear in mind uh
00:39:00
that it's very important to be the real
00:39:03
you in life and that's the largest um
00:39:07
question that you need to ponder over
00:39:09
this could be a four mark question in
00:39:11
your examination as to what is the
00:39:14
larger message that a story like the
00:39:16
with the photographer gives to us okay I
00:39:19
hope the story is absolutely clear I've
00:39:23
explained every word and every line out
00:39:25
here so I don't think there should be
00:39:27
any doubts as I said the SWA success
00:39:30
test papers towards the end of the year
00:39:32
closer to your examinations will help
00:39:33
you prepare uh for the questions and
00:39:36
answers in a much better manner both
00:39:38
mcqs as well as the long format question
00:39:40
and answers thank you very much Tata
00:39:42
bye-bye God bless you
