Notes For All Chapters English Footprints without Feet Class 10 CBSE
Author: Robert Arthur
1. Characters (Detailed)
🕵️ Ausable
- A secret agent – but not like the spies we imagine.
- Appearance: Fat, slow, speaks with an American accent though he lives in Paris.
- Personality:
- Calm, confident, clever, witty.
- Has great presence of mind.
- Uses intelligence instead of physical force.
- Role in Story:
- Outwits Max without any fight.
- Creates a false story about a balcony and police.
👨💼 Fowler
- A young, romantic writer.
- Expected thrill and action from a spy’s life.
- Was initially disappointed with Ausable.
- Gets his “first real thrill” when he sees Max with a gun.
- Learns that real intelligence is more important than action and adventure.
🦊 Max
- A rival spy who wants to steal the secret report.
- Appearance: Slender, fox-like face.
- Personality:
- Overconfident and threatening.
- Holds a pistol to scare Ausable.
- Lacks cleverness – easily fooled by Ausable’s balcony story.
- Fate:
- Jumps out of the window to escape “police” but dies as there is no balcony.
2. Setting
- Place: A small, gloomy room in a French hotel.
- Floor: Sixth and top floor.
- Important Detail: A single window that Ausable uses cleverly in his plan.
3. Plot (Step-by-Step Summary)
1. Fowler Meets Ausable
- Fowler follows Ausable to his room.
- Gets disappointed because Ausable does not look like a “movie spy.”
- Ausable explains that tonight he will receive a very important paper which may affect history.
2. Max’s Entry
- When Ausable switches on the light, Fowler sees Max with a pistol.
- Max demands the secret report about new missiles.
3. Ausable’s Balcony Story
- Ausable stays calm and complains about the “balcony problem.”
- Tells Fowler (and Max) that someone had entered through the balcony last month.
- Says the hotel management had promised to fix it.
- Max believes there is really a balcony outside the window.
4. Knock at the Door
- Someone knocks on the door.
- Ausable calmly says it is the police, whom he had called for extra protection.
- Max gets nervous, threatens to shoot, and decides to hide outside.
5. Climax
- Max climbs onto the “balcony” to escape.
- He falls to his death because there is no balcony at all.
6. Ending
- The person at the door was not police, but a waiter with drinks.
- Fowler is shocked but impressed.
- Ausable has once again solved a dangerous situation with intelligence.
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