When you are reading try to imagine what the character feels and what is going on and just be absorbed in the story.
It would humanize her and make her capable of sympathy.
Answer:
Mohan asked me what I was doing at the weekend.
. It was a struggle for his body to survive ,but only did so because of the determination of his will and his spirit, which would not permit him to surrender to the hate which apartheid had imposed and imprisoned him