CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Lushkoff, the notary, in contrast, looked like a gentleman. He wore a coat collar of curly fur and a worn sealskin cap. He was paid thirty-five roubles a month for his ‘clean employment’. He was a respectable and responsible person now, not the alcoholic who had stooped to telling lies and begging alms for survival.

Detailed explanation-2: -A beggar is a man named Lushkoff. He is weak, malnourished and alcoholic. He lost his job due to alcohol abuse only. He met an advocate Sergei who offered him work.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Beggar Summary – ‘The beggar’ is the story of a beggar named Lushkoff. While begging, he met an advocate, Sergei who gave him work. Sergei asked him to cut wood at his house. He asked the cook to show him the shed where wood was kept.

Detailed explanation-4: -Lushkoff was a middle aged poor man. He belonged to the Russian choir but was sacked from his job due to his drinking habits. To get some money he pretended to be a school teacher who had lost his job due to Page 2 conspiracy. He also pretended to be a student expelled from the school for no guilt of his.

Detailed explanation-5: -The lesson “The Beggar” was written by Anton Chekhov. The story opens with a beggar named Lushkoff was begging alms to an advocate named Sergei. The beggar said that he was a school teacher who had lost his job by a conspiracy of his colleagues.