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IV. Answer the following questions in not more than 300 words each., , 1. Discuss the humour in the story., Patricia Grace has beautifully depicted the nuances of an ordinary Maori family living in a, small town in New Zealand, in her short story ‘ It Used to be Green Once.’ She has used, humour a tool to depict Maori values. The story is about simple ordinary people living together, in a community. The reader identifies and could relate at once with the introduction to ‘Mum’,, but as the story moves on one finds the characters have something special in being Maori., , The mother had to sustain a family from whatever less they had. The children who are too, little to understand were shamed by certain acts of the mother like cutting up old swimming, togs and making two. Dad used to get rotten pears and apples for cheap. Mum would dig out the, rotten bit and give them to the children, to take for lunch, which they called “holey fruits.” The, children didn’t mind this until one day Reweti yelled to them “who shot your pears.?” Grace, portrays all these innocent bits with her boisterous way of story-telling., , There is Mum’s car which is the centre of laughter in the story. It is compared to a dinghy to, which people throw themselves over the sides, because it had no brakes. The horns of the car, were like a flock of ducks coming for feed. Even after the family won the lottery Mum never, changed. She was still the busy jolly person. On Wednesdays she would change into her purple, dress made from a Japanese bedspread. She also wears her brimmed blue sunhat and slippers, for shopping., , They way Grace describes the full packed green Chevrolet and the boot of the car always left, hanging open because of things heavily dumped are all humorous depiction of everyday life., , Se ORS HOSE: