Page No: 9
Q: 1. What is the age of the
narrator?
At the beginning of the story the age of the narrator was 11years
and he turned to 13years by the end
of the story.
Q: 2. How does he describe his elder
brother?
He describes his elder brother as a studious person who is always
engrossed in books. He is much
responsible towards his brother and
cares him a lot. But he was too
dominant that he wants to control him
in all aspects. He desires to
improve his knowledge by laying strong
foundation. He controls
himself by keeping himself away from worldly
pleasures like playing games,
fairs, cricket matches and other
entertainments. He has great respect
towards elders.
Q: 3. Why was his elder brother
angry with the narrator?
Illustrate with at least three
expressions he uses?
The elder brother was angry with the narrator because
he always wastes his time
either in playground or entertaining
with friends rather than on studies.
The following expressions make it clear:-
1 * It is no child’s play dear.
2. * If you want to waste your life thus, better go home Gulli-danda to your heart’s content.
3. * So you feel you have conquered the world.
4. * Don’t fly high; you will fall on your face.
5. * Are you out of your mind, roaming like vagabond with this
hooligans. Etc….
Q: 4. How was the tension between
the two brothers resolved?
The tension between the two brothers resolved when the
younger ones pleaded for
forgiveness and he told that it was his
own fault and every word what he
said was true. So, he never
hates him. Immediately, the
elder brother hugged him. Both of
them broke into tears. The hatred
situation turned to warmth
and thus the tension between them
was resolved.
Page No: 11 Writing Style
Throwing pebbles in the air, flying paper butterflies, this is no
child’s play, the bouncing of
football, the fervor kabbadi and the pace
of volleyball, tiptoe, the
sword of Damocles, Amma and Dada and
home remedy are the words and
phrases that convey the rural/semi-urban
setting of the story. An urban
reader gets confused when he comes
across such words at the first
glance but as he continues further he
gets absorbed to the nativity of the
story.
Page No: 12 Theme
Q: 1. Younger brother
is at his success. The elder ones wish
that he always wants to be
admired. He says that even
God can’t challenge the truth that
he is elder one.
He threatens the younger one never
to develop false
pride whether he got into his grade
or even more ahead.
Q: 2. Yes, the elder brother is a
bit jealous of the success
of his younger ones. In spite
of praising and feel honored
as his brother topped the grade his
elder brother simonized
him whenever he was found playing.
Q:3. Yes, the emotional bonding
between the two brothers
is universal. Wherever two brothers
in a family is seen, the
elder ones always dominates the younger
ones and tries to
control him. On the other side
the elder care for the younger.
Q: 4. In spite of enjoying his
extracurricular activities, two
times in the annual results the
narrator topped his grade
but his elder brother flunked. But
instead of confronting
him, he kept silent. He never
uttered any word against him
even when his brother warned
him many times. At the end
of the story narrator was surprised
to see his new avatar
even then narrator humbled himself
and he pleaded for forgiveness.
This shows his respect towards his
elder brother.
Page No: 13 Vocabulary by Theme
I.
i.
Speech
lecture
serious
ii.
Scold
formal
chide
iii.
Abate
contract cut
iv.
Rigid
harsh
serious.
II.
i. angry
annoy
irritate
ii. by heart
study
building
iii.
Outgoing
outflow offspring
iv. harmoniously
match
action
Page No: 14 Culture Point
Q: 1. Generally, the
elder brothers of the family are more responsible than younger ones. They are
often called as next to father.‘Studious’ nature of the elder brother is one of the traits observed in the
story.The elder brothers feel that the
younger must obey their command and follow their advice when even not asked for
they lay restrictions upon themselves and others too. They make an attempt to
understand the pain and struggle of their family to educate them. They seek for
priority and respect. They also behave in such a manner that they know the
world better than others.
Q: 2. At the beginning
of the story the younger brother has much respect towards elder
one. He never dared to question him. As the story progress, he found
new confidence in him and wanted to question him by seeing
his depressed face, but he didn’t do that. He wanted to
argue with him but finding him crying he too
cried.
He tried not to offend him any time when the elder one stars to lecture, he bore it
with patience when he was in rage the younger one
shuddered. At the very sight when the elder brother was too emotional
and nervous he admitted his guilt and showed
compassion for him. Ultimately, he followed his elder brother,
Respect for elder brother diminish but rage made way for compassion, feeling of fear
turned to affection.
Page No: 16
Q: 3. Clearing an exam
is one thing, attaining knowledge is another. Algebra and geometry will
drive you crazy and God saves you from the British
history. The academic
knowledge is not enough to lead the
life happily. But even can match their wisdom in worldly
matters. Look at our family members and parents how
are they managing. So, we should always be aware of our surroundings.
Q: 4 In no way did the
elder admonishing contributed to the narrator’s good performances.
The elder brother has admonished the younger ones several times but the
younger had never cared for his words. He paid a deaf ear to his words.
The narrator is intelligent and so stands first in the class.His performance is not at all a
result of elder brother’s admonishment.
Page No: 18 Literary Concept:
Even though the story is in the first person narrative,the author succeeded in highlighting
the characters equally well. The author has depicted very
carefully the emotional scenes and the sensitive issues. The
narrative style leaves a positive impression for the reader on
the characters. The reader sympathizes with the characters and
understands their emotions. It is the writing style that
made all these. The author dealt the story in a sensitive manner. He
succeeded in grabbing the entire attention of the readers by
describing routine activities and general ideas in a lively manner.
Page No: 19 Reading Journal
Q: 1. The elder brother is
dull and slow at learning. He lags subject knowledge and so he is
unable to perform well in the examination although he is seen
always surrounded with books and doesn’t undergo any
recreation and relaxation that made his mind to be blunt.
Another reason is that he was not interested in studies and has developed negative
impression for history, geometry and English which is an
obstacle in procuring knowledge.
Page No: 20
Q: 2. The elder is
a responsible person. He has great respect for his family and feels the
responsibility for his younger brother. He believes in wisdom rather
than education. He has a strong feeling though one is
educated in a high position; it is the
worldly knowledge that leads one’s
life. In his opinion, pride makes one to fall down. He strongly
believes that one should have self control to achieve
one’s goal to succeed in one’s life.
Page No: 21 Project
(a) Strengths:
Being friendly with all the people.
Empathy towards poor and needy.
Self confident.
` Helping nature
Positive thinking.
(b) Weaknesses:
Telling lies and hiding makes me to get angry
Short temper and very sensitive
Doing mischievous things and getting scolded from parents.
(c) I. By interacting with my grandparents I came to know that
there is
a lot of happiness and support among the family members. In those days and also the younger ones always obeys the elders.
There will be a
lot of understanding between the family members. There will be a strong bondage of love and affection between the family
members because in those days they have got joint families. Even for a small function or occasion everyone attends it and they used to
share their
feelings and ideas but now a days. It is not like that no one cares
for the other one. All the families are nuclear family. They are
ready to share their parents along with thei9r property. So this has
to be changed to get a healthy society.
II.
In those days most of the people are not educated as now. In that days education is
given very less importance they acquire knowledge by
interacting with people.
The people who got knowledge
have participated in freedom movement.
If we got education and knowledge no one can cheat us and we need not depend on
others.
But now there is a drastic change in our educational systems. So this change is very
good. Women also be given great importance, they should also
be educated. Then, there will be no discrimination between
men and women and this leads
to a healthy society.
