A ripple of laughter ran from one corner of the room to the other . The oppressive air of discipline that swirled in with latikas entry. Suddenly drained out, karimuddin was a servant in the hostel, stories of his laziness and shirking had been circulating among generations of students. Latika suddenly remembered something. Holding up her lamp she ran her eyes over the room. The girls sat in a circle, huddled against each other. Familiar faces all, but in the lamps pale light it was seeing them for the first time.
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"Wow!! A lot is going on in this passage... it's very good writing indeed. From the sounds of it, there are a bunch of girls staying in a "hostel" (a place where travelers can find very affordable lodgings, and where anywhere from 2 to up to a dozen persons sleep in the same room, in bunk beds. From the first sentence, it seems like something had happened that provoked a session of "group discipline" - like in a school class where too many children were being noisy at the same time, and the teacher slams her ruler down on her desk and bellows out something like "ENOUGH!!!!! If i hear one more word from any one of you, EVERYONE stays after school today!!!!!!!" - an "oppressive air of discipline". This feeling of fear of nasty consequences, is relieved when a lazy, bumbling servant enters the room and provides some "comic relief". I think maybe Latika is the teacher or at least the adult in charge of the girls, since she is the one with the lamp. It seems that this is a place where the students come to often, or even live - perhaps it is more like a a dormatory than a place where travelers come and go through all the time.. the part about the "generations" of students indicates this is a very familiar place to them - perhaps associated with the school in some way.
"Wow!! A lot is going on in this passage... it's very good writing indeed. From the sounds of it, there are a bunch of girls staying in a "hostel" (a place where travelers can find very affordable lodgings, and where anywhere from 2 to up to a dozen persons sleep in the same room, in bunk beds. From the first sentence, it seems like something had happened that provoked a session of "group discipline" - like in a school class where too many children were being noisy at the same time, and the teacher slams her ruler down on her desk and bellows out something like "ENOUGH!!!!! If i hear one more word from any one of you, EVERYONE stays after school today!!!!!!!" - an "oppressive air of discipline". This feeling of fear of nasty consequences, is relieved when a lazy, bumbling servant enters the room and provides some "comic relief". I think maybe Latika is the teacher or at least the adult in charge of the girls, since she is the one with the lamp. It seems that this is a place where the students come to often, or even live - perhaps it is more like a a dormatory than a place where travelers come and go through all the time.. the part about the "generations" of students indicates this is a very familiar place to them - perhaps associated with the school in some way.
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The atmosphere was most likely a nitrogen/oxygen - based atmosphere with a smaller proportion of carbon dioxide, argon and a variety of pollutants and particulates.
This is because people are being described who are apparently not wearing spacesuits and would therefore be on Planet Earth (unlike people who ask literature questions in the astronomy category)
This is because people are being described who are apparently not wearing spacesuits and would therefore be on Planet Earth (unlike people who ask literature questions in the astronomy category)