Short Answer TypeRead the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
and
looked out at young
trees sprinting, the merry children spilling
out of their homes, but after the airport's
security check, standing a few yards
away, I looked again at her, wan,
pale
as a late winter's moon and felt that
old
familiar ache, _ _ _
(a) How can the trees sprint?
(b) Why did the poet look at her mother again?
(c) What did she observe?
(d) Identify the figure of speech used in these lines.
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
and
On their slag heap, them children
Wear skins peeped through by bones and spectacles of steel
With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones
(a) Who are these children?
(b) What is their slag heap?
(c) Why are their bones peeping though their skins?
(d) What does 'with mended glass' mean?
Answer any four of the following in 30 - 40 words each:
How did Rajkumar Shukla establish that he was resolute?
Answer any four of the following in 30 - 40 words each:
'Life is what it is all about...' How is keeping quiet related to life?
Answer any four of the following in 30 - 40 words each:
Mention any four things of beauty that add joy to our life.
Long Answer TypeSophie lives in a world full of dreams which she does not know she cannot realize. Comment.
The chapter Going Places begins with Sophie telling Julie that one day she would have a boutique or be an actress. If she ever becomes as actress, she would have the boutique on the side as actresses don’t work full time. This clearly shows that Sophie loves living in a world of dreams. Perhaps we can take these dreams as being achievable ones. But her fantasy about the football player Danny Casey shows us that she lives completely lost in her world of fantasy. She strongly believes that she has met Danny Casey despite people not believing in her words. She is so deeply lost in her world of dreams that she does not even doubt her capability of achieving them. Towards the end of the chapter, we see her imagination getting a boost when she sees Danny Casey crisply striking the ball into the goal.
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