The hack driver

Grade X CBSE

1. THE HACK DRIVER SINCLAIR LEWIS

2. KEYPOINTS The character of the young lawyer. His nature of job & working environment. His likes & dislikes. The place he visited and work assigned.

3. SUMMARY This story is about a young lawyer who is too innocent. He goes to a village to serve summon to a person called Lutkins . At the railway station he meets a person who identifies himself as Bill. Bill appears to know everyone in the village and promises to search Lutkins for the lawyer. He takes the lawyer for a ride and dupes him off lots of money. But after a six hour long search, they do not find Lutkins. Next day, when the lawyer goes to the village with one of his colleagues, he discovers that it was Lutkins who posed as Bill on the previous day. Everyone , except the lawyer have a hearty laugh at the predicament of the lawyer.

4. SUMMARY In this lesson, a young lawyer is made to serve summons instead of practicing law . He hates his job as sometimes he is beaten up. Once he is directed by the law firm to serve summons to one Mr. Oliver Lutkins, who lived in a village called New Mullion. The young laywer goes to the village with some expectations of village life but he is disappointed. He meets a hack driver who is a very helpful man according to him.