Question

Read the extract and answer the questions that follow:

‘We had the illusion in those days that it was going to last for ever’ (Para 3)

1.  Identify ‘we’. What does ‘those days’ mean’?
2. What illusion did they nurse?
3. Why does he call it an ‘illusion’?

Answer 1

1. ‘We’ refers to the writer and those who shared his childhood experiences; ‘those days’ means their childhood days.
2. They believed that the happiness and wonder of that time would last forever.
3. The writer calls this belief an ‘illusion’ because childhood and its carefree pleasures inevitably pass.