Possible Questions:
1. Show the points of similarities
and differences between the two supernatural stories’A House call’ and the loving Mother.(2064)
2. What are two possible explanations of the girl was who came to fetch the doctor?(2066)
3. What did Dr. Brawn discover when he went with the girl who came to his house? (2057)
4. Why did the doctor have a look of surprise on his face when Elda told him that little daughter died in September? (2058, 2063)
2. What are two possible explanations of the girl was who came to fetch the doctor?(2066)
3. What did Dr. Brawn discover when he went with the girl who came to his house? (2057)
4. Why did the doctor have a look of surprise on his face when Elda told him that little daughter died in September? (2058, 2063)
“The
House Call” is a story from Germany that basically concentrates upon the
mysterious arrival of the spirit of a young girl to make a call to the doctor
for the treatment of her mother who was suffering from pneumonia for several
days. Dr. Brawn, the protagonist of this story, is identified as the famous
surgeon in his locality. The day after the Christmas of 1903, he was sitting
alone in his dining room in about 9:30 p.m. he was quite tired even unable to
take his evening meal due to hard surgery, which he performed on his particular
day. He was preparing report about his surgical works and putting his head down
the table and dozing. He suddenly woke up when he heard the doorbell. After
sometime, he came to know that he had a patient to see. In fact it was a young
girl who had come to call the doctor for her mother. Despite his exertion,
Braun decided to follow her up to her home and see her mother. The doctor tried
to catch her up on the way so that he could have asked many questions related
to her mother and about herself. The doctor was old enough to walk on the speed
as the girl was making a rush towards her home. Anyway the doctor managed to
follow her till he reached at her old apartment where a woman seemed to be
lying on the bed.
The doctor checked her up and found that she
was suffering from pneumonia. He provided her some medicine that comforted the
woman because she was the same woman who once worked in the same hospital as
the maintenance staff. The doctor knew that Elda had gone to stay at her
brother’s house in the village. The woman further added that she came back just
three months ago after her only child Adelheid died. Dr. Braun was very
surprised because the very child had been to the doctor to make a call. The
woman further showed some of her belongings to revive her memory in her old and
least furnished apartment. The ragged shawl and tattered shoes shown to doctor
by her mother made him more confused and serious because he had seen the girl
in the same dress. When he looked at Elda he found her asleep and returned with
his black bag on his hand.
