If I Were You Class 9 th (English)

Watch class live"If  I were you"is a play written by

 Douglas James. It begin with the telephonic conversation of a dramatist. Gerrard who was preparing to leave his house in order to attand a reharsal. After hanging up the phone call, he starts packing his travel bag. While he is engaged in his work, he suddenly notices an intruder who has silently entered from his right side. The intruderwithout wasting any time, as Gerrard to raise his hands up in the air. Gerrard on the other hand, is surprisingly relaxed and does not panic at gunpoint. He starts chatting with the intruder and asks his name pleasantly.

            The intruder starts intrrogeting Gerrard about his details. Gerrard request him to talk in a comfortable position, so the intruder asks him to sit down on a chaire. As they start talking, he asks Gerrard if he stays alone and own a car. To this, the drammatist replies that he often travels due to nature of his work. One of his bag is always kept packed as there are days when he needs to travel out for some urgent work.Besides, Gerrard also tell the intruder that he often talks on the telephone without meeting his tradesmen in person.

Meanwhile, Gerrard also enquirs about the intruder's  whereabouts  and the latter tell him that he is a criminal who mainly robs jwellery. Further, he also killed a policeman and he wish to take Gerrard's identity by killing him so that he can evade his arrest completly. Hearing this, Gerrard realises that the intruder is not as smart as  he had assumed him to be. So he manipulates the intruder wittingly to believe him. Gerrard quickly make up a story  and states that he has a mysterious life of his own. He convince him to believe his words  and speak the intruder that the police is also after Gerrard for a murder. Now if the intruder kills him, the police would anyway  him on accound Gerrard's misdeed.

Intrestingly, the intruder believes Gerrard 's story when the latter asks him to go to the garage and flee from the house through that rout. So, Gerrard opens the garage house door and pushes the intruder inside which is actually a cupboard and locks him up. Soon after, he informs the police about the criminal's  whereabouts and hands him over to them. Thus we see that Gerrard's presence of mind and alertness saved him from a life-threatening situation.