Advertisements
Advertisements
प्रश्न
How is the essence of the poem captured in the lines 'two tickets to Happiness'?
Advertisements
उत्तर
The narrator and his partner are homeless and they have nothing to go back to. They grieve in their loss of identity and home. Desperate to be happy, they are ready to pay for it. The picture presented is piteous and lamentable. Though they can not have the happiness, in reality, they imagine an express that goes to a land of happiness and wish to purchase two tickets of it, one for the narrator and other for his partner. The narrator desperately looks for someplace to board the train but every coach was full. It is death present everywhere and they can not afford to be happy as Hitler has called the whole of Europe that “they must die”. Even in the end on land far stretched with the whiteness of snow everywhere, it is displeasing to see the Nazi army hunting the Jew couple, obviously, to kill them.
APPEARS IN
संबंधित प्रश्न
Maggu’s achievements are particularly noteworthy because – as is well known – academic institutions in India are less than sold on the idea of inclusive education. In fact, when Maggu lost her sight in class IV, her school (which she declines to name) expelled her while suggesting she attend a “blind school”. Though shocked, Maggu rejected the advice. “Attending a special school would have tarred me with a handicap forever, which was not how I saw my future. Therefore I did the rounds of other public schools with my father, a small – time merchant, explaining that my case was different Since I had vision till the age of ten,” she recalls.
Impressed by her persistence and ambition, Delhi’s Bluebells School not only admitted her but pulled out all the stops to support her in academics sporting events and also notched up a respectable 73 percent average in the class XII exam with the help of Braille, interactive textbooks and extra coaching.
The respectable average in her CBSE exam paved the way for admission into LSR where again she proved her mettle by winning medals in a slew of inter – collage events (100 200 and 400 metre sprints) high jump, long jump, javelin and discuss throw: resulting in her being declared ‘Athlete of the year’ 2003’ at a sports meet for 100 physically challenged athletes. And the cherry on the cake was the selection to the IBSA Games last year. “It was a tough regimen,” recalls Maggu. “I had to attend sports camps manage my studies and officiates as sports president. But I managed.”
Questions:
(1) What qualities of Maggu are highlighted in this passage?
(2) Why did Maggu refuse to attend a ‘blind school’?
(3) Quote the lines that show that Jyoti Maggu was good in academics as well as in sports.
(4) Use any two phrases in sentences of your own :
(a) To win laurels
(b) To pave the way
(c) To prove one’s mettle
(d) A tough regimen
(5)
(a) I did the rounds of other public schools with my father [Change the voice]
(b) though shocked Maggu rejected the advice [Rewrite as a simple sentence]
(6) Should the physically challenged be sent to special schools? Express your views.
Describe the shifts in the narration of the events as indicated in the three sections of the text. Give a subtitle to each section.
Briefly comment on:
The purpose of the author’s journey to Mount Kailash.
This play, written in the 1950s, is a humorous and satirical depiction of the status of the mother in the family.
What are the issues it raises?
Is drama a good medium for conveying a social message? Discuss.
What impressions of Shahid do you gather from the piece?
How do Shahid and the writer react to the knowledge that Shahid is going to die?
Do you know of any incident when someone has been brought back to life from the brink of death through medical help. Discuss medical procedures such as organ transplant and organ regeneration that are used to save human life.
What were the voices that Paul heard? Did they lead him to success in the real sense?
Examine the communication channels in the story between Basset and Paul's uncle.
Adi Song for the Recovery of Lost Health' is in Miri Agom while Adi Agom is the Adi community's language for routine conversation. How does this reflect upon the high level of language sensitivity of the Adi? Can you think of other parallels in modern languages between the literary variety and the colloquial variety?
The peacock is the national bird of India. Why do you think the peacock has been chosen?
Read the extract and state whether the following statement is true or false. Correct the false statement.
The author is an example of ‘reverse migration’.
Fill in the blank.
The author wanted to grow ______________.
An acrostic is a poem or a write· up in which the first letter of each line forms a word. when it is read vertically.
For example,
Faithful
Reliable
Inspiring
Encouraging
Noble
Dedicated
With your benchmate / group, complete the acrostic of BELIEVE and FAITH.
(Please note that the words / phrases should be more or less related to the topic. You can use a thesaurus.)
Be certain of
E ......................
L ......................
I ......................
E ......................
V ......................
E ......................
F ......................
A ......................
I ......................
T ......................
H ......................
‘Dull would he be of soul who could pass by.’
This line of the poem can be rewritten as:
'He would be of a dull soul.'
The figure of speech is known as ‘Inversion’.
Find out one more example of Inversion from the poem.
What are the clothes compared to? Give two examples.
What is your favourite time of the day? Describe it in detail.
We all follow a class time table made by the school. Imagine for a minute what will happen if there was no time table for your class.
Read the passage and answer the following:
Who has written the book?
Read the following sentence aloud. Write who said it and to whom.
“Look, here’s something for you.”
Read the following sentence aloud. Write who said it and to whom.
“You have nothing else?”
Form groups. Discuss the first two paragraphs. Try to present their content in the form of a series of conversations among the volunteers.
Fill in the following blanks with reference to the poem.
'In time of rain when spring and life are ______, the butterflies lift ______ wings to catch a ______ cry and trees put forth ______ leaves to sing in ______ beneath the sky as ______ boys and girls too ______ singing down the roadway'.
What do you like better - the original poem or the parody? Why?
Answer in your own words.
How many chores did the ancestor from 1800 have to do?
Read: ‘The Listeners’ and ‘Someone’ - poems by Walter de la Mare.
Read the following from the Language Study pages:
- adjective clause
- adverb clause
- noun clause
Find one example of each from the passages. (Note the linking word when you do that.)
Rohan had finished ______ rounds of the tree before Mrs. Groover discovered him.
Say whether you agree or disagree.
The bachelor had narrated an improper story to the children.
Read: ‘The Open Window’ by H. H. Munro (Saki).
Find out how the following game is played.
Table Tennis
Who used the zither and how?
Who was the first person to withdraw cash from the ATM?
What do the people do when the festival of Music is celebrated?
He preferred handling mail by himself.
The ______ is a biological relative of tortoises.
Identify and write the sport's name respectively.
- ______
- ______
- ______
- ______
Read the lines and answer the question given below.
Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,
All by himself and gathering brambles;
- Where do you think the child is?
- What does ‘gathering brambles’ mean?
Find example of alliteration and write them in the blank.
Spring Is pretty
but short and sweet
Nilavan unknowingly started the space shuttle.
We don’t use _________ in the soil.
How did the third daughter use the grain?
What were Anandhan and Yazhini watching in the television?
Whose hospitality is described in the poem?
Answer using Yes or No and pick sentence from the story to support your answer.
Was Robinson alone in the island?
The old man is _____.
Parents never let us get ______.
Kani and Teddy were in the garden at _____.
Leafcutter ants can carry leaves that weigh ______ times of their body weight.
Match the rhyming words.
| Say | grow |
| All | time |
| Go | day |
| Rhyme | fall |
Many may lie and______.
In real the plate was made of ______.
Choose the correct one.
Elephant
Why was his father unable to sleep?
Does the child in the poem like her nose? Why do you think so?
List three questions that the little boy asks.
- ______
- ______
- ______
What was different about the rabbit that Alice saw?
What does the earth do when the day is over?
Did the girl buy a picture book?
