Question

Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow : 

“I did not sell the trees because I could not”. 

(a) Who was the speaker here? 

(b) Who was he speaking to? 

(c) Why could he not sell the trees?

Answer 1

(a) Don Anselmo was the speaker.

(b) He was speaking to story-teller with the buyers of the land.

(c) He said that the trees in that orchard are not his, that belonged to the children of the village. So he had no right to sell and he didn’t sell it.