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    Fritz: Q1. Describe How Satyajit Ray Builds Up Suspense and Horror in Fritz'

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    Jayanto and Shankar decide to visit the old circuit house in Bundi, Rajasthan. Jayanto is haunted by memories of his childhood doll named Fritz. One night, Jayanto is disturbed and claims Fritz entered the room, leaving mysterious footprints. The next day, Jayanto remains agitated. The story leaves the fate of Fritz ambiguous, allowing readers to decide if Fritz was supernatural or part of Jayanto's imagination.

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    Fritz: Q1. Describe How Satyajit Ray Builds Up Suspense and Horror in Fritz'

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    Jayanto and Shankar decide to visit the old circuit house in Bundi, Rajasthan. Jayanto is haunted by memories of his childhood doll named Fritz. One night, Jayanto is disturbed and claims Fritz entered the room, leaving mysterious footprints. The next day, Jayanto remains agitated. The story leaves the fate of Fritz ambiguous, allowing readers to decide if Fritz was supernatural or part of Jayanto's imagination.

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    Jayanto and Shankar decide to visit the old circuit house in Bundi, Rajasthan. Jayanto is haunted by memories of his childhood doll named Fritz. One night, Jayanto is disturbed and claims Fritz entered the room, leaving mysterious footprints. The next day, Jayanto remains agitated. The story leaves the fate of Fritz ambiguous, allowing readers to decide if Fritz was supernatural or part of Jayanto's imagination.

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    Fritz: Q1. Describe How Satyajit Ray Builds Up Suspense and Horror in Fritz'

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    FRITZ

    Q1. Describe how Satyajit Ray builds up Suspense and Horror in


    ‘Fritz’.
    With the uses of imagery and the elements of suspense, Satyajit Ray
    excellently added the elements of horrors in the story. The story begins with
    the narrator’s conversation with his friend Jayanto in the circuit house of
    Bundi, a small town in Rajasthan. The narrator’s description of the place with
    the use of visual imagery of Bundi hinted towards the suspenseful begining. In
    order to create the atmosphere of horror and suspense, the narrator gives the
    vivid description of the old circuit house. The narrator also introduce auditory
    images in order to add realistic elements of horrors. Jayanto’s pensive mood
    towards his visit on the circuit house, created the sense of intense suspense in
    the mind of readers. As the story moves further, it brings some strange
    memories of the narrator’s friend, about his favourite doll, called Fritz and it’s
    unnatural destruction made the story to transform into a intense supernatural
    story. The ending also introduce the suspense with the elements of horrors.
    The sudden ending made the story open for the readers to decide whether
    Fritz was a ghost, supernatural being or a part of Jayanto’s imagination. It
    concluded with mystery and suspense.

    Q2. a) Who were Shankar and Jayanto? Why had they decided to go
    in Bundi? Give a brief description of the circuit house.
    Jayanto, who works in the editorial section of a newspaper, is the protagonist
    of the short story “Fritz” by Satyajit Ray. He is depicted here as a sensitive man
    who cares a lot about his past memories.
    Shankar is a complete antithesis to Jayanto. He is Jayanto’s childhood friend.
    He is a school teacher and is also the voice of reason in the story. He is also
    very observant and curious. Not for a second does he believe that supernatural
    powers could be at play. He is the kind of person who sees the world in black
    and white.
    Circuit house description in book pg 13, stanza 3
    b) What does Jayanta tell us about his doll ? How the doll disturbed
    their peaceful occasion at Bundi ?
    pg 15, stanza 4
    Since the Narator and his friend Jayonto visited Bundi, Jayonto was haunted by
    his old memory of Fritz. One night, the narrator was disturbed to find Jayanto
    sitting up, terribly agitated. Jayanto told him that something had woken him
    up. However, the narrator inferred that his friend had a bad dream and went
    to sleep. Some mysterious marks had been formed in the quilt Jayanto had
    used but neither could say for sure how it was formed and the narrator was
    too sleepy to think about it any further. The next morning he saw that Jayanto
    had not slept at all. They left for the Bundi fort at nine in the morning and
    Jayanto came to his normal self. However, by the time they returned to the
    bungalow, Jayanto’s agitation returned as well and with great reluctance, he
    told the narrator the it was Fritz who had entered the room that night and that
    the mysterious marks on the quilt were Fritz’ footprints.

    c) How does the story end ? Comment on the ending of the story.
    The author has ended the story, leaving it open-ended for the readers to
    conclude whether Fritz was a ghost, some kind of a supernatural being who
    died an unnatural death or a figment of Jayanto’s imagination.
    We have the theme of memory, innocence, worry, control, letting go,
    friendship, fear and conflict throughout the story. What is really interesting at
    the end of the story is that the reader is left with more questions than
    answers. Never really knowing what the truth might be, which may be the
    point that Ray is attempting to make. He may be suggesting that what is true
    for one individual may not be true for another. Something that is noticeable
    already in the story with Jayanto’s memories being sometimes different from
    the reality around him in Bundi.

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