Class 12 English Guide The Treasure in the Jungle By: H.G.Wells Exercise Question Answer With Solution

 Class 12 English Guide  The Treasure in the Jungle By: H.G.Wells

Class 12 English Guide  The Treasure in the Jungle By: H.G.Wells Exercise Question Answer With Solution

4. The Treasure in the Jungle                    By: H.G.Wells

Main Summary

‘The Treasure in the Forest’ has been written by H.G.Wells, an English writer.

Evens and Hooker are the main characters of this story. It is a terrible story in which Evans and Hooker search for Spanish treasure. The story moves ahead to show how power and greed corrupt human beings. The main theme of the story is "The more people desire for gold or money and power, the more they become selfish and reach in the mouth of death."

Evans and Hooker are two greedy persons who are the treasure hunters. Chang-hi discovered a Spanish ship's treasure when the gold-loaded ship got accident. After getting lots of gold, he buried it in a dense forest. Chang-hi had a treasure map to find the hidden gold. 

Then Hooker started his journey towards the island by a boat although he was so tired.  Evans who was sitting in the boat with Hooker got asleep. At that time, he dreamt the hidden treasure, three Chinese-men ( Chang- Hi and his helpers).

In the dream, Evans saw three Chinese-men in the woods sitting around the fire at night and talking quietly about the hidden treasure. Their voice was Chinese English. Hooker first heard them. They came closer to hear them clearer. Chang- hi was telling his friends about the island's buried treasure. Chang Hi had hidden the gold during a Spanish ship accident. Chang- hi wanted his friends to help him find the buried treasure. He had a treasure map. The story of Chang- hi which Evens saw in the dream became a great source for Evans and Hooker.

When Hooker and Evans arrived near the island, their dream became the real. They found the three Chinese-men talking together by making fire in the side of jungle. Then, they killed Chang-hi to grasp his treasure map.  In the jungle, he was told by Hooker that there were three palm trees. He told him that if they found the palm trees, they could easily find the treasure. Evans and Hooker fond the spot indicated on the map. They quickly come upon to identify the pile of stones that was indicated on the map.

They found a dead man's body there. They thought that he had dug a hole for the treasure there as well. When they discovered several gold nuggets(packs) in the partly dug hole, they started collecting the gold pieces to return them to the boat, but he is immediately injured by a thorn. After a short distance, Evans' arms begin to ache, he sweats, and he begins to feel pain.

Evan suggests Hooker to run away. Hooker doesn't obey Evan and he starts to load as much gold as that he could load inside Evans' jacket. Then, Hooker arms also got ache, he got hurt, and he began to suffer the pain. He then started shaking on the ground. Now, he also gets poisoned by the thorns while collecting the gold. Both of them are made small marks by thorns, now he understands the meaning of the tiny dashes on the map; Chang-hi had surrounded his wealth with thorns. As a result of the Chinaman's protecting thorns, Hooker and Evans are both badly hurt. They're exhaling their last gasps of air. 

Hooker looked at Evans, who remained still (not moving). His eyes were open but not moving. Hooker began sucking his finger. He began having hand, arm, and neck pain. He couldn't move his fingers. He remembered Chang hi's happy expression. He glanced down, then up at Evans. A light air blew through the trees. A big white flower fell from one of them and landed in front of him. Both of them were suffering in the last stage of life.

When the story concludes, we see Evans and Hooker laying in suffering next to each other, awaiting their deaths. Thus, the main theme of the story is "The more people desire for greed and power, the more they become selfish and suffered so much in the life. We should not be greedy and selfish in the life. " 

Answer the following questions.

a. Describe the expository scene of the story.

➜ The story opens with the canoe(ship) approaching the land, by two treasure hunters, Evans and Hooker, a little river flowing to the sea, the thicker and deeper green forest, sloppy hill, and the sea.

b. What does the map look like and how do Evan and Hooker interpret it?

➜ The map looks like a rough map, creased and worn to the pitch of separation. Evan interprets twisting lines in the map as the river and the star as the place and Hooker interprets the dotted line and straight line and the way to the lagoon in the map.

c. How did Evan and Hooker know about the treasure?

➜ Evan and Hooker knew about the treasure by the conversation of the Chinese man and the map he has.

d. Describe Evan’s dream.

➜ Evan had a dream about the treasure and Chang-hi. In the dream, they were in the forest and saw a little fire where three Chinamen sat around it and talked in quiet voices in English. Evans went closer and he knew that Chang-hi took the gold from a Spanish galleon after shipwrecked and hid it carefully on the island. He worked alone and it was his secret, but now he wanted help to get the gold back. There was a battle and Chang-hi was brutally killed by them.

e. What do the two treasure hunters see when they walk towards the island?

➜ The two treasure hunters see three palm trees in line with a clump of bushes at the mouth of the stream when they walk towards the island.

f. In what condition did the treasure hunters find the dead man?

➜ The treasure hunters found the dead man lying in a clear space among the trees with a puffed and purple neck and swollen hands and ankles.

g. How did the treasure hunters try to carry gold ingots to the canoe?

➜ The treasure hunters tried to carry gold ingots to the canoe with the help of the Coat of which one end of the collar catching by the hand of Hooker and the other collar by Evan.

h. How were Evan and Hooker poisoned?

➜ Evan and Hooker were poisoned as a slender (thin) thorn nearly of two inches length pricked in Hooker’s thumb and Evan rolled over him and both of them crumpled together on the ground which made them suffered a lot.

b. Why do you think Evan and Hooker took such a risk of finding the buried treasure on a desert island?

➜ I think Evan and Hooker took such a risk of finding the buried treasure on a desert island because of the following reasons: 

• ·         Treasure Hunts help people develop new skills and strengthen and reinforce other skills such as leadership, communication, and problem-solving. 
• ·         This is of equal benefit to employees and employers combined. 
• ·         lt develops the ability to tackle any difficult circumstances. 
• ·         They think of risks as rewarding. 
• ·         It is said that “Gold makes people crazy” to do something new. 
• ·         It also reveals their greed for wealth.

d. What do you think is the moral of the story?

➜ "The more they desire for greed and power, the more they become selfish" is the moral of the story "The Treasure in the Forest". Evans and Hooker's greed increase as they come to know about the treasures. They murdered the Chinese man Chiang-hi cruelly and they went in search of treasures with the help of the map. It is Greed that is the disordered desire for more than is decent, not for the greater good but one's own selfish interest, and at the detriment of others and society at large. Greed can be for anything but is most commonly for money or treasures and power is much more dangerous and it can lead to someone’s death as well which we find in the story.

e. Interpret the story as a mystery story.

➜ H.G. Wells’ “The Treasures in the Forest” is a mystery story involving two wastrels (neglected situation), the dead body of a Chinese man and thorns that draw blood in Hooker’s thumb. It carries many suspenseful instances such as:

1. ·         The story is about two treasure hunters, Evans and Hooker who seek to find the hidden treasures in the forest.
2. ·         Hooker murder Chang-hi, a Chinese man to steal the treasure map. Chang-hi grins at them when he gets murdered.
3. ·         They travel by canoe sailing towards the coral island. However, neither of them understands the intention behind it.
4. ·         They follow the map and soon discover a forest, then a pile of stones just like the map. But then they find a man corpse of the Chinese man.
5. ·         As soon as they see the gold Evans starts to pick them up back in the canoe, however, both of them suffer a lot.
6. ·         Hooker then realizes the true meaning behind the grin of Chang-hi.
7. Thus, it is a mystery story.