Simple Question & Answers

Q1. What do you mean by frozen girl?
Ans: Paris looked into the water and thought that the water was a sheet of mirror. Everything was flickering but her image was still and expressionless.

Q2. What kind of character is portrayed through Franklin?
Ans: Franklin is confident, firm, bold, caring, loving, responsible and dutiful.

Q3. "Shengo called journey!" Tell us what Tahr thought of it surprisingly.
Ans: Tahr thought that maybe Shengo got the message in the tea or the melting of butter on the greenish liquid. He thought that no one came here to give the message so, it came from the tea or butter.

Q4. Write about the gradual development of Tahr and Paris's relationship.
Ans: When Shikarri and the guide found Tahr behind the bushes, Paris was the only one to recognize he was injured. Everyone thought that Tahr was a spy but Paris thought he was innocent by the look on his face. Paris got to know that he didn't have a family but loved his master Shengo. She realized that he was not a spy but an innocent and good boy. They became friends and Tahr felt that he was kind.

Q5. What do you understand by the wheel of life as described by Shengo?
Ans: I understand by the 'Wheel of Life' that on top were the Gods. Down on one side were the Titans. On the other side were the People, below them were Beasts. Then the Hells and in the last part of the wheel were the Hungry Ghosts. The wheel is trying to tell us that whoever comes to the top after moving will be in power and strength.

Q6. Relate your answer in your own words the incident when Shengo fell down the ravine.
Ans: Shengo was dis-balanced by the log when Tahr shouted. He slipped when he looked at what Tahr was pointing towards. There was only the noise and the foam on Shengo's face when Tahr looked down the ravine. Shengo was dead.

Q7. Why did Tahr start feeling sick upon hearing the sounds of the helicopter?
Ans: Tahr started feeling sick upon hearing the sounds of the helicopter because of the noise and hovering of the helicopter. Tahr had never felt such pressure and noise as he lived on the edge of a mountain and he had never seen such a thing.

Q8. Shengo loved Tahr as a father. Give two evidences to support your answer.
Ans: Shengo loved Tahr:

• He gave Tahr some honey sweets when Tahr was hungry.
• He put his hand on Tahr's shaved head and rubbed it softly.
• He gave his cloak to Tahr when they were in the hut and it was very cold.

Q9. Why did Paris idealize her uncle and held him in higher esteem that her father?

Ans: Paris idealized her uncle because he was firm but caring and loving. He agreed with her on everything. Meanwhile her pop gave her freedom to do whatever she wanted but never cared about her.

Q10. Paris is a kind girl. Give evidences to prove your answer.

Ans: Paris is kind:

• She saved Tahr from Uncle Franklin and Shikarri when they were prisoning him.
• She guarded him as he wasn't a spy.
• She made a tent for him.
• She taught him good English words.
• She felt sympathetic towards the dead monkey and pigeon.

Q11. Draw a comparison between western and eastern life style and culture.

Ans: Paris had a luxurious life and lived in a bricked house with all the possible necessities. Tahr lived a simple life with a simple hut called a monastry with little necessities. Paris ate every delicious food type while Tahr ate  bread, brown rice and potatoes. Paris wore stylish clothes while Tahr wore a simple robe.

Q12. Who was the hungry ghost and why?

Ans: Donald was the hungry ghost because he was always talking about recipes and making food. He even ate a lot of food during the dinner.

Q13. What is the significance of Ultimate Diner's club?

Ans: The significance is that they were dining in a very dangerous and wild place but even then they were having dinner in a very royal and decorated tent. They were all united for the dinner which was the celebration of hunting.

Q14. That night the camp-site had become another world. Explain.

Ans: The camp-site had become another world because everyone had come out of their tents to enjoy the dinner. New tables and chairs were taken out with silver shining cutlery.

Q15. What was the secret confided to Paris by Tahr?

Ans: Tahr told Paris that once Shengo saw the yeti with a family of two adults and a little one. Both Tahr and Paris wanted to save them as they were extinct.

Q16.Reflectively, write the characteristics of the yeh-teh?

Ans: When it moved, it muttered, roared and stayed scarily quiet as it cut down deep among the rocks. It could hide in the deepest bushes and dangerous places where people could not pass and cross. It could swerve, duck and drop away somewhere people could not follow. It was broad-shouldered, hunched and looming. Its posture was upright. It's skin was largely hairless. Its face had a sloping forehead, heavy eyebrow ridge and was slightly snout-like.

Q17. Summarize the whole scenario of finding the yeti's footprints.

Ans: Franklin pointed to the bush beside them, the berries on it were eaten. Down on one side were the footprints. Everyone clustered in to form a group to see the foot-mark. The mark was clear and unmistakable, it was as long as Gavin's size 13 combat boot, it was broad and bare. It was a freshly trodden foot-mark not more than an hour.

Q18. Show gradual development of Tahr and Paris's suriety about their seeing.

Ans: Under the waterfall, in the cave, there was a ledge and on it the dead body of Shengo, full of blood everywhere.  When Tahr saw it, he ran splashing towards it, hands out, shouting 'Shengo, Shengo'.

On the other hand was Paris, she was watching for the trees above. She saw the yeti which was broad-shouldered, hunched and looming, it leaped towards Shengo, hopping rock to rock. It was more animal than human. Both were seeing two different things at the same time.

Q19. Describe Shengo's appearance of kneeling body on ledge.

Ans: Shengo's body laid on a flat tone on the ledge. Shengo had hands which were trimmed around the edges, he wore a robe like a hood. He was old. He had his limbs, both arms neatly folded on his chest. His feet were bare and poking out beneath the robe. There was blood all over and it splashed over the water. It looked very ghastly and horrifying. 

Q20. What does the sentence 'A cave of eyes' represent?

Ans: 'A cave of eyes' represents the shiny, glowing eyes of the yeti. The yeti wanted Tahr to know the whole story of how Shengo dies, with her eyes. She wanted to tell Tahr that she was the one responsible for Shengo's death.

Q21. Reflectively, describe the effect of chanting on Tahr.

Ans: When Tahr started chanting, he forgot about all the waste smell and started concentrating on his chanting and how he would calm the yeti and be friends with her.

Q22. Collectively, write your views upon Tahr's disrespectful thoughts towards Shengo.

Ans: Tahr thought that he was 12 and Shengo should've taught him all the chants and rituals because he was growing-up. He thought that maybe Shengo had been making all the things up and lied about being a monk. Then he thought that Shengo said that the yeti is the mountain spirit which is very noble but Franklin said that it is an outcast of our species, retarded and deformed which was right. He thought that maybe Shengo was lying about other things too. 

Q23. What do you mean by "their own bargain between sleep and bad thoughts"?

Ans: Franklin, Harriet, Renaud, Donald, Shikarri and other porters were scared that maybe the other tribes of the yeti attack them because they had captured their young one. Many of them had a loaded gun beside them. Renaud had his case of knives in case he needed them if the other yeti's attack. And Franklin just lay straight on his bed with his eyes open  thinking about what would they do if the other yeti's attack, where would they run off and hide to etc.

Q24. Whose fault is shown being responsible in Shengo's fall?
Ans: Yeti's fault is shown being responsible in Shengo's fall because she was the one behind the bushes which made Tahr look towards her, shout, make Shengo frightened, dis-balance from the log and fall down in the ravine.

Q25. How can you tell that yeh-teh was more like a human than an animal? Give three reasons to support your answer.
Ans: The yeh-teh is more of a human than an animal:

• She had a motherly figure, she had parental qualities as she cared for Tahr and saved him and Paris from Shikarri and later on from the tribe/rebels.
• She wore clothes as she respected her body.
• She made a braid with her hair.
• She brought Tahr some food and even played with him when he was depressed.
• She did the incense for her mother with all the rituals and ceremonies.
• She threw rocks at the helicopter to bring it down to help Paris and Tahr escape.

Q26. How did Tahr earn the trust of the yeh-teh when she was imprisoned?
Ans: Tahr earned the trust of the yeh-teh by calming her when she was imprisoned, by giving her food and water when she was hungry and thirsty and by helping her escape from the guards.


Q27. What did the rebels do to the people in the campsite?
Ans: The rebels tied up Tahr and Paris with a full-time guard watching them as the rebels thought that Tahr was a spy. They killed Renaud, Donald, Harriet, Gavin and Shikarri very harshly. Renaud, Donald and Harriet were killed by a knife in their chests at the camp-site. Shikarri was hanged. They treated them all harshly.


Q28. Tahr pretended not to recognize Paris at the rebel's camp. What does this show about Tahr's character?
Ans: This shows that Tahr is a very clever, intelligent, cunning and quick-witted boy. He knew that if he recognized Paris, the rebels would've killed both of them. He did not want any harm to Paris.


Q29. Reflect how the characters have changes as a result of situations they have found.
Ans: Franklin's real side is shown, he is very negative and acting very strange and rude. 
Paris is scared of Franklin. She thought of him as a fatherly figure, but he was totally the opposite. Paris is hurt and lost in her thoughts.
Tahr is acting like a fatherly figure to Paris. He is now calming and soothing Paris when Paris herself used to calm Tahr.
Tahr and Paris wanted to save Geng-sun as it was extinct but now Geng-sun is saving them as their lives were in danger.
The mastiff was very faithful now, first it was after Tahr and Paris but now it was showing them that Shikarri was hanged.Even it's one eye was missing, it was scratched and had blood all over it's body.
The campsite was not in order, not in a proper and decorated manner. It was very messed up , everything had broken or misplaced.
The tents were looted, even in the kitchen all of the cutlery was broken and shard. Renaud's shelf of knives and special cutlery was now shard and everything was misplaced.
Everything and everybody changed from Franklin, Paris, Tahr, Geng-sun, mastiff to the tent, campsite and kitchen. It's like there is a total change in the story and the character's behaviors.


Q30. How can you explain the theme 'courage and grief' in relation to Geng-sun?
Ans: The theme ;courage and grief' come in relation to Geng-sun because she was very bold and calm while burying her mother while if it were for us, we would be yelling and crying out loud, making a fuss all over. She was very calm and quiet.

Q31. Which is the safe place for Geng-sun?
Ans: The Ice Fortress is the safest place for Geng-sun.

Q32. What is the theme of Chapter 24? Explain.
Ans: The theme ' preservance' explains us that Tahr found the shepherd just like Shengo, he is preserved with the shepherd's family. Paris is preserved in her home in America. Geng-sun is preserved with the other yeti's in the Ice Fortress.
The theme 'courage' demonstrates the courage of Tahr to live with the shepherd's family. It demonstrates the courage of Paris going with the trekker's to America. It also demonstrates the courage of Geng-sun living with the other yeti's in the Ice Fortress. 
The theme 'life on the edge' means that Tahr is once again living on the edge with the shepherd instead of Shengo as before.

Q33. Briefly tell us about Tahr's feelings of shepherd as Shengo.
Ans: Tahr thought of shepherd as Shengo because he was kind-hearted, humble, soft-hearted and polite just like Shengo. When Tahr was cold, he covered him with a blanket and neared him to himself. He was a fatherly figure to Tahr. Tahr is attracted towards the shepherd because he has the same qualities as Shengo.


Q34. Describe the place 'Ice Fortress'.
Ans: The Ice Fortress was a pass between 3 mountains. It was a sign of coldness, it was a building, heaped up in a great wall. The walls and roofs were made up of ice. The walls were very high. There were many yeti's inside it. The Ice Fortress was like a great dzong out of Shengo's stories, part monastry, part castle, built with buttresses of ice. The peaks around the Ice Fortress were broken. It had villages near it. There was also a lake with the fortress, made of ice, it was called the 'Lake of Ice'.

SUMMARY

 COMPLETE SUMMARY

Chap 1:

Paris and her uncle Franklin are at the departure lounge of an airport awaiting their flight, but it is delayed. The strength of Franklin’s personality is made apparent by the way he behaves and what Paris tells the reader about him.

Chap 2:

The setting changes and Shengo, an old monk, and his young disciple Tahr are introduced. They live a simple life on the hillside praying and are visited by people searching for a blessing or advice. From this point we know that Shengo has decided that he and Tahr will be going on a journey. 'There is a life… on the edge’ Shengo says. Through this chapter and the next the reader explores the close relationship between the master and the boy.

Chap 3:

The journey undertaken by Tahr and Shengo continues. The reader continues to explore the relationship between the two. The reader also begins to infer and deduce a little more about Tahr and his reaction to the helicopter. The chapter ends with a dramatic climax when Tahr causes Shengo to lose his footing while crossing a waterfall.

Chap 4:

The reader is back with Paris and her Uncle Franklin again. This time they have set up camp with the others on their expedition, having trekked to reach a place out of sight. The reader finds out about the others on the expedition, the ‘very special club’; some information about the camp they have set up; and more about Paris and Franklin. At the end of this chapter she encounters a boy who stumbles into the camp.

Chap 5:

The reader finds out that the boy who stumbled into the camp is Tahr, who is lost without Shengo. Through the dialogue the reader learns more about the visitors in the camp and how they react to a stranger.

Chap 6:

Tahr tries to make sense of what has happened to him. Paris takes him on an exploration of the camp and they encounter Franklin again. The hunting party leaves the camp and Tahr is left on his own. He thinks about escaping but realizes that he has nowhere to go now that Shengo is dead. He meets Donald and Renaud as they wait for the hunters to return.

Chap 7:

The hunting party is out in the forest, where Paris is subjected to a difficult time from Gavin but defended by Harriet. The expedition group shoots a monkey and a couple of ducks. That evening the Ultimate Diners Club transforms the campsite and they eat the animals they have killed. We learn that the ducks were the last of their species.

Chap 8:

Tahr undertakes jobs in the camp as the dinner party continues. He finds it difficult when Paris demands his attention as he tries to get to his tent. He puts her behaviour down to her being drunk. He promises not to run away but feels in danger whether he stays there or runs away. Later he either dreams or thinks about the incident at the waterfall which caused Shengo to fall. He cries out and is comforted by Paris. Tahr tells Paris that he thinks he saw a yeh-teh by the waterfall.

Chap 9:

The morning after the Ultimate Diners Club has feasted the campers are a little subdued. Paris tells them about the yeh-teh. She tells Tahr that they are going to look for his master but he knows she has betrayed his trust. The expedition group set off and find the waterfall where Tahr saw Shengo fall. Tahr is shocked to find that everything is the same, which means someone has replaced the log that was used as a bridge.

Chap 10:

The expedition group continues to try to track the yeh-teh. Finally they arrive at a pool where they see two shapes crouching together. Tahr comes rushing through the water to the body of Shengo – the creatures have laid Shengo out in ceremony. Through injuring the larger one, Shikarri and Gavin are able to capture the young one.

Chap 11:

Having captured the yeh-teh the hunters explore and discuss what it could possibly be. Tahr feels responsible and finds the situation very difficult. He asks if he can be allowed to visit it. The camp feels uneasy with theyeh-teh there.

Chap 12:

Overview: Tahr is allowed to visit the yeh-teh. She is described in greater detail. He chants to help calm her. Tahr is able to read the yeh-teh’s thoughts.

Detailed summary:

• Geng-Sun is tied in an animal pen.
• Geng-Sun’s hands are tied, he is blindfolded.
• Tahr feels bad for her and thinks that she might be an outcast of her species.
• The room in which Geng-Sun was kept was tightly packed, to avoid her escaping.
• Tahr recalls the time of Shengo; he remembers that Shengo used to help all the animals.
• Tahr feels that he could calm down Geng-Sun by chanting.
• Tahr starts chanting.
• Tahr wishes that Shengo would have taught him more chants, so he could have helped Geng-Sun easily.
• Nobody slept comfortably in the camp, everyone was scared of Geng-Sun, and everyone had some weapon along with them.
• Tahr felt that Geng-Sun can see him, despite being blindfolded.
• Geng-Sun moves towards Tahr, he continues chanting.
• Tahr thinks that he must free her.
• Tahr takes out a gift which he brought for Geng-Sun.
• Geng-Sun reached out for the gift and took it.
• Tahr touched Geng-Sun carefully.
• Tahr opened Geng-Sun’s blindfold.
• Tahr and Geng-Sun start to communicate through thoughts.
• Tahr could see the event of Shengo’s ceremony and open fire through Geng-Sun’s eyes and from a completely different view.
• Tahr is now sure that he saw Geng-Sun in the forest at the time Shengo fell in the river.

 Chap 13:

Paris reflects on Franklin and the camp. Tahr reluctantly discusses the yeh-teh with Franklin and tells him that he thinks there are many of them, despite being able to read the yeh-teh’s thoughts about being the ‘only one’. Paris, with Tahr, meets the yeh-teh, which she finds difficult, especially when she sees what the yeh-teh sees in her uncle. Paris agrees to help Tahr to release the yeh-teh.

Chap 14:

The escape is set up by Tahr and Paris. Tahr waits with the yeh-teh while Paris, on guard duty, acts as if she thinks she sees something. The commotion allows Tahr and the yeh-teh to escape.

Chap 15:

Tahr and the yeh-teh communicate through their thoughts. Despite reservations he agrees that they can go back to the pool where the mother yeh-teh was injured and Geng-sun (the young yeh-teh) was captured.

Chap 16:

Franklin plans to hunt down the yeh-teh and Tahr. Tahr and Geng-Sun continue their escape, finding a burnt-out, deserted village. Geng-Sun is able to find food; it is obvious that she knows what she is looking for. Tahr remembers the past and how his mother was killed.

 Chap 17:

Tahr and Geng-sun continue on their escape but are tracked down by Shikarri’s dog. Trapped, with only one direction to go, Tahr is captured by a group of rebels who force him to go with them.

Chap 18:

Overview: Tahr is with the rebels, tied up and kept under guard. Having killed a number of the hunting party, the rebels capture Paris. Franklin escapes. Tahr pretends not to know Paris. Geng-sun manages to rescue Paris and Tahr.

Detailed Summary:

• Tahr is in a cage, trapped by the Rebels.
• Tahr converses with Gurung, the Rebel.
• Gurung tells Tahr that he and his fellow rebels killed policemen, and then watched TV shows on their TVs.
• Franklin’s group is tracking Tahr and Geng-Sun.
• Shikarri’s Mastiff smelled Geng-Sun and ran to chase it but Franklin stopped it as it would lead them to other Yeh-Tehs.
• Paris is confused, on one hand she wants to meet Tahr and Geng-Sun, and on the other hand she wants them both to run away to safety, from Franklin.
• Franklin’s group is attacked by the Rebels. Shikarri’s people and Gavin are killed.
• Tahr showed them Rebels the way to Franklin’s group.
• Rebels hit Shikarri and question him.
• Paris fainted.
• Paris finds herself hanged in mid-year by ropes.
• Rebels changed Paris’s clothes, from American clothes to Rebel’s clothes.
• Paris looks around and finds Tahr hanging from in mid-year too, just like her.
• Gurung was guarding. He was looking at Tahr and Paris.
• Paris whispered to Tahr but Tahr acted as if he doesn’t know Paris.
• Tahr translated and conversed for Paris and Gurung.
• Shikarri changes his side from Franklin’s to the Rebels.
• Franklin had run away.
• Gurung tells them that the Rebels will ask American Embassy money in exchange for Paris’s life.
• Paris started to cry to gain mercy.
• Geng-Sun was hiding in that place, camouflaged.
• Soon he pounced, attacked and took down Gurung, who fainted.
• Geng-Sun found an axe and he used it to cut the ropes of Tahr and Paris, to set them free.

Chap 19:

Tahr, Paris and Geng-sun make their escape. Geng-sun helps them with a difficult climb and cautiously they make their way back to the camp. Paris doesnt know if she can trust Geng-Sun but Tahr tells her that she helped him and took care of him. She asks them to stay behind while she goes to the campsite. Paris enters the campsite alone to find that the camp has been messed and everyone had been killed. All the tents have been raided and all valuables have been taken away. Everyone is lying dead, dressed for a dinner party. Paris looks for Franklin, and realises that he is not there. She fears that he might have been dead too. She starts to go back towards Tahr and Geng-sun. Franklin speaks.

Chap 20:

At first relieved to see Franklin and then, Paris is frightened by his character. Franklin talks weird saying it was the end of everything, he cheers with Paris for nothing, Paris thinks he's drunk, but she can’t find any alcohol around. Paris wonders why Franklin is talking so evil. Tahr pulls Paris away and Paris leaves the camp with Tahr and Geng-sun.

Chap 21:

Geng-sun hunts for her mother. She finally finds her dead, having crawled into a deserted cave. Geng-sun gets a sign while sleeping that there is a safe place for Yeh-Tehs. Geng-sun then communicates to Tahr that there is a safe place for the yeh-teh that she hasn’t been to, the ‘Ice Fortress’. She doesnt know the way but she tells Tahr that it is above the skyline, between 3 mountains. Geng-sun gives her mother a death ceremony. Paris falls asleep during the ceremony. Tahr also sleeps.

Chap 22:

Tahr and Paris are woken by the sound of a helicopter and gunfire. The smoke from the incense that Geng-sun is using for her mother makes them a clear target. Paris and Tahr shelter from the gunfire while Geng-sun throws rocks that bring down the helicopter. The helicopter falls Paris and Tahr find her injured. Undeterred, she still insists that they carry on. Tahr offers Paris to stay behind while he takes Geng-sun to the Ice Fortress, but Paris disagrees and wants to go with them. Tahr tries to convince Gengsun to get well before they move on, but Gengsun doesnt want to stop. Paris learns the sign language Tahr uses.

Chap 23:

On the trek to the ‘Ice Fortress’, someone is following them. Tahr, Paris and Geng-sun encounter Franklin. Again he acts strangely. He finally shows his real intentions of the journey. To capture the Yeh-Teh and use her DNA for cloning and controlling. As the ice bridge he is standing on collapses, he falls a great distance. Paris is saved by Tahr and Geng-sun. They continue with the journey to the Ice-Fortress.

Chap 24:

The three continue with their journey but, as they approach where the Ice Fortress should be, they can’t see it. Geng-sun looks around but can’t see anything. Suddenly, Geng-sun's attitude changes and she chases them away with a spear. Tahr and Paris turn back and move back to where they came from. They are rescued by a shepherd. Paris wants Tahr to go to America with her, but he sends her off. Tahr goes to live with the shepherd and his family and Paris is taken to a trekking point to be transported home to her parents.