Answer: This excerpt is first person point of view. We know this because of the personal pronouns that are used throughout it (I, me, my, etc.). If it was second or third person, pronouns like he, she, it, they, etc. would be used in place of the personal ones. We would also see a slightly different version of the scene.
Explanation: Since this is first person, it is told from the giant's perspective. If it was told from a different point of view, it would most likely be a narrator that is not the giant and just a by-stander.
Frankness is the answer when your frank with someone your honest or blunt with them.
Answer:
She had just been informed that a surgical operation needed to be carried out on her husband who had been critically ill and bedridden.
Explanation:
Gopal"s wife had just been informed that a surgical operation needed to be carried out on her husband who had been critically ill and bedridden for about one and half months.
This was the verdict of Dr Raman, Gopal's long-term friend, whose frankness and openness had earned him a reputation of being truthful.
Hence if Dr Raman said it, then it must be true.
Hence Dr Raman's verdict of the need to carry out an urgent operation on Gopal, in addition to the strain of protracted caring for her husband, was too much for Gopal's wife to bear, weakened her and made her to collapse on the floor.
