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प्रश्न
Answer the following in about 100‒125 words.
Has Sophie met Danny Casey? What details of her meeting with Danny Casey did she narrate to her brother?
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उत्तर
No, Sophie has not met Danny Casey in reality.
संबंधित प्रश्न
Answer the following question in 120 – 150 words:
Teachers always advise their students to dream big. Yet, the same teachers in your classrooms find fault with Sophie when she dreams. What is wrong with Sophie's dreams?
Answer the following question in 120 – 150 words:
Teachers always advise their students to dream big. Yet, the same teachers in your classrooms find fault with Sophie when she dreams. What is wrong with Sophie's dreams?
Answer the following question in 120 – 150 words:
Teachers always advise their students to dream big. Yet, the same teachers in your classrooms find fault with Sophie when she dreams. What is wrong with Sophie's dreams?
Answer the following question in 120 – 150 words:
Teachers always advise their students to dream big. Yet, the same teachers in your classrooms find fault with Sophie when she dreams. What is wrong with Sophie's dreams?
Answer the following question in 120 − 150 words :
How different is Jansie from Sophie?
Answer the following question in 120 − 150 words:
It is normal for adolescents to fantasise and indulge in hero worship. How far is it true of Sophie?
Why did Jansie not approve of Sophie’s dream ?
Notice these expressions in the text. Infer their meanings from the context.
1. incongruity 5. arcade
2. prodigy 6. amber glow
3. chuffed 7. wharf
4. solitary elm 8. pangs of doubt
Where was it most likely that the two girls would find work after school?
Why did Sophie wriggle when Geoff told her father that she had met Danny Casey?
Did Geoff believe what Sophie says about her meeting with Danny Casey?
Does her father believe her story?
How does Sophie include her brother Geoff in her fantasy of future?
Sophie and Jansie were class-mates and friends. What were the differences between them that show up in the story?
How would you describe the character and temperament of Sophie’s father?
Discuss in pairs
1. Sophie’s dreams and disappointments are all in her mind.
2. It is natural for teenagers to have unrealistic dreams. What would you say are the benefits and disadvantages of such fantasising?
Why didn’t Sophie want Jansie to know about her story with Danny?
Did Sophie really meet Danny Casey?
Which was the only occasion when she got to see Danny Casey in person?
Look for stories or movies where this theme of hero worship and fantasising about film or sports icons finds a place.
Answer the following question in about 40-50 words.
Why did Sophie wish to delve more deeply in 'her brother's affections'?
