Three Important Questions with Answer form "The Night mare Life Without Fuel" and Summary

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The Night Mare life Without Fuel
Isaac Asimov
Class : 11 | The Magic of Words

Summary

This essay is written by Isaac Asimov. In this essay, the writer has drawn out attention to the possibility of fuel shortage and its results in the nineties if we do not conserve it. The writer has described about the condition of America in the late nineties on the fuel crisis. On the one hand the writer has presented advantages and disadvantages of the fuel crisis and on the other hand he has shown the burning problem of the world which is created by fuel crisis. According to the writer, the population growth increases and the subways are crowed. Due to fuel crisis, there are no use of cars and vehicles. People must carry their loads on animals. People must work all day. They suffer from starvation. People must walk many miles on foot. When they lack of fuels, they will be useless. The death rate of child will be increased on the lack of fuel crisis. Shortage of food will be the cause of death of people. Coal is too difficult to dig up. The destroyed cities become a source of mineral mines. Nuclear fission is found out to be dangerous. Because of the fuel crisis, vehicles will be disappeared. The only way to deliver food is lay cart. There will not be certainly for food but there will be confirm for works and sleep. People will be suffered from diseases, darkness, and violence. The adult's minds will be damaged. But the writer says that there are certain advantages of fuel crisis. He says that people can get fresh air. If a man feels cold, he will get the opportunity for sitting in the sun. People can walk freely at night. Local parks can be fulfilled. The crime rate will be decreased. Roads will be full of people and there will natural understanding in the crowd. There will be pollution of noise. Military forces will be controlled and reduced it. If there is no smoke, the people will not use smell of sent. The police or security service will not be necessary and the population growth rate also will be decreased. But the writer says that people will have invented new resources. Nuclear energy and its power will be discovered. Only the United States and Soviet Union con keep tanks of petrol. He sees no hope of correcting this situation. But also Asimov says that the remaining resources will be properly used. It is too late for conserving it. And for this, he says that the American government is responsible. Otherwise, we will be back into the pre-industrial age. The future imagined by Asimov is very dark. But we can still individual if we take stand of saving fuel today, we may not ran out of it on the near future unit under energy source is found. But now, we can't do anything except looking at the suddenly falling of the world. Therefore, the writer has focused on the impacts of the fuel crisis all over the world in this essay. 

Important Questions 

1. According to the Author, what will be the advantage of the fuel crisis? 

Ans: The essayist talks about advantages and disadvantages of having fuel. The essayist says that the air will be pollution free if there is no fuel. There will be no new danger along the road. There will be fewer crimes. Police service will not be needed. The parks and theatres will be full of people.

2. What will be the disadvantages of the fuel crisis in 1919 according to the author? 

Ans: People won't get enough light heat, water, etc. people will have to work for longer hours and they will have less time to enjoy. People will have to walk on crowded trains or buses. The babies will die of hunger and adults mind will be damaged permanently. 

3. What does the author mean when he says, "The suburbs were born with the auto, lived and dying with the auto?" 

Ans: People go to urban area from village area for good facilities. When cities become crowded, people start to move towards suburb areas for peace. They move to suburb areas because they can go there easily on their vehicles if there is lack of fuel, they will have difficulties. 

Questions for Practice 

1. What are the functions of fuel in human life as described by Isaac Asimov in "The Nightmare Life without Fuel"? 

2. Explain what Isaac Asimov means when he says, "work, sleep, and eating are the great trinity of 1997, and only the first two are a guaranteed. 

3. What would be the impact of a complete disappearance of fossil fuel on the life of people in big cities? Describe the comparative advantages of the fuel crises as shown in the essay. "The Nightmare Life without Fuel." Also write its result to the rest of the world. 

4. What kind of serious problems could a fuel shortage cause? You base your answer on "The Nightmare Life without Fuel." 

5. What kinds of serious problems could a fuel shortage cause? 6. Describe what the writer thinks will happen when fuel begins to run out.