“We all missed him greatly: but in a sense we were relieved.”

(i) Who does ‘we all’ stand for?


(ii) Who did they miss?


(iii) Why did they nevertheless feel relieved?

(i) In the given line, ‘we all’ refers to the narrator and his entire family and friends.

(ii) They missed Bruno (Baba), the sloth bear after he was sent to a zoo in Mysore.


(iii) They were relieved after Bruno (Baba) was sent to a zoo in Mysore because he was getting too big to be kept at home.


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