ANITA DESAI: Fire on the Mountain Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this passage, and then answer the question that follows it: Raka sprang from the house as if shot out by a gun. Content removed due to copyright restrictions. It was the ravaged, destroyed and barren spaces in Kasauli that drew her: the ravine where yellow snakes slept under grey rocks and agaves growing out of the dust and rubble, the skeletal pines that rattled in the wind, the wind-levelled hill-tops and the seared remains of the safe, cosy, civilized world in which Raka had no part and to which she owed no attachment. (from Part 2, Chapter 18) In what ways does Desai vividly convey Raka's thoughts and feelings at this moment in the novel?

1. In what ways does Desai vividly convey Raka's thoughts and feelings at this moment in the novel?[25]