(a) What tools are talked about here? (b) Why does the woman feel that the tools are inappropriate there?

Question

Read the following paragraph and answer the questions given below.

Woman 6: But surely, they can’t really be using those tools to take out a tooth.

Woman 4: You heard what the Man said.

Woman 6: And those men have gone, too.

Man 7: Cowards, every one of them. They can’t take it.

Little Girl: Mummy, I was only joking about my toothache, too. I haven’t really got one. I was only trying to get off school.

Woman 7: Nonsense, Dorothea, you know your tooth is as black as the kitchen range. You’re only trying to get out of it.(The Little Girl breaks into a howl.)

(a) What tools are talked about here?

(b) Why does the woman feel that the tools are inappropriate there?

(c) Why does man 7 call his fellow patients as cowards?

(d) How did the little girl try to outsmart her mom?

(e) How did Dorothea’s mom find out the truth?

Answer 1

(a) The carpentry tools like hammer, pliers and hacksaw are talked about here.

(b) The woman believed that the carpentry tools may not be needed by a dentist to remove tooth. So, she feels they are inappropriate there.

(c) Some of the male patients left the clinic without meeting the dentists. Man 7 thought that they were scared of the tools of tooth extraction and left the clinic. So, he described them as “cowards”.

(d) The little girl said that she was only joking about her tooth ache.

(e) Dorothea’s teeth was black. The bad tooth had to be extracted. But Dorothea claimed that she was only joking about her tooth ache. So, mom found out Dorothea’s lies to escape the torture of the dentist.