E.V. Lucas states that ''(Charles)Lamb found the essay a comparatively frigid thing: he left it warm and flexible and companionable .Explain the statement.

Lamb's essays are known for their rambling nature, his lightness of touch, humanity, and the sense of pathos. Elucidate.

As used in paragraph 1, the word frigid most nearly means

Mr Lamb tries to guess the cause behind his burnt face. Derry reveals that one side of his face was burnt due to exposure to acid, and it will remain the same forever. Derry finds Mr Lamb’s composed reaction to this piece of information a bit odd. He asks Mr Lamb astonishingly if he is not interested in it. The latter reasons that everything created by God is interesting. Every living thing is the same no matter what. Mr Lamb talks about how he has a tin leg and kids call him ‘Lamey-Lamb’. Some people notice and talk about his tin leg, while some do not. But it does not bother him. Mr Lamb tries to compare this phenomenon to the fairy tale of ‘Beauty and the Beast’.

In which section of the play does Mr Lamb display signs of loneliness and disappointment? What are the ways in which Mr Lamb tries to overcome these feelings?

Select the correct answer.What theme is common to the two excerpts below? . . . His theory of running until he reached camp and the boys had one flaw in it: he lacked the endurance. Several times he stumbled, and finally he tottered, crumpled up, and fell. When he tried to rise, he failed. He must sit and rest, he decided, and next time he would merely walk and keep on going. As he sat and regained his breath, he noted that he was feeling quite warm and comfortable. He was not shivering, and it even seemed that a warm glow had come to his chest and trunk. And yet, when he touched his nose or cheeks, there was no sensation. Running would not thaw them out. Nor would it thaw out his hands and feet. Then the thought came to him that the frozen portions of his body must be extending. He tried to keep this thought down, to forget it, to think of something else; he was aware of the panicky feeling that it caused, and he was afraid of the panic. But the thought asserted itself, and persisted, until it produced a vision of his body totally frozen.(Jack London, To Build a Fire)Presently the boat also passed to the left of the correspondent with the captain clinging with one hand to the keel. He would have appeared like a man raising himself to look over a board fence, if it were not for the extraordinary gymnastics of the boat. The correspondent marvelled that the captain could still hold to it.They passed on, nearer to shore—the oiler, the cook, the captain—and following them went the water-jar, bouncing gayly over the seas.The correspondent remained in the grip of this strange new enemy—a current. The shore, with its white slope of sand and its green bluff, topped with little silent cottages, was spread like a picture before him. It was very near to him then, but he was impressed as one who in a gallery looks at a scene from Brittany or Algiers.He thought: "I am going to drown? Can it be possible? Can it be possible? Can it be possible?" Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature."(Stephen Crane, The Open Boat) A. mysteries of life and death B. finding hope after tragedy C. humanity's helplessness against nature D. finding inner strength E. choosing between security and individualism