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CBSE Solutions Class 8 English It So Happened
Page No. 65
Comprehension Check
Q1. Why didn’t he pay the school fees on the day he brought money to school?
Answer: The day he brought money to school, the teacher who collected the fee was on leave. Therefore, the child did not pay the school fees on the day he brought the money.
Q2. (i) What were the coins ‘saying’ to him?
Answer: The coins were ‘saying’ to him to spend the fees money and buy jalebis with them.
(ii) Do you think they were misguiding him?
Answer: Yes, the rupee coins were misguiding him. They were asking him to buy Jalebis with the amount meant for school fees.
Q3. Why didn’t he take the coins’ advice? Give two or three reasons.
Answer: He did not take the coins’ advice because he was a good boy. He knew that the coins were misguiding him. He said he got so much at home that he considered even looking at something in the market a sin. Besides, the coins were his fees. If he spent them that day, he would not be able to show his face to Master Ghulam Mohammed the next day at school, and after that to God. He also said that when Master Ghulam Mohammed got angry, he made students stand on the bench till the last bell would ring. Therefore, he decided not to take the coins’ advice.
Q4. (i) What did the oldest coin tell him?
Answer: The oldest coin said that they were thinking for his own good. According to the oldest coin, he can get the scholarship money the next day also, and that money can be used to pay fees. Hence, he can use the fee money to buy the jalebis very well.
(ii) Did he follow his advice? If not, why not?
Answer: No, the boy did not follow the coins advice initially. He was an honest and promising student and thought he couldn’t defame his reputed family by spending his school fees to buy jalebis. Moreover, he was aware of the harsh punishment that the teacher would inflict upon him if the school fees were not paid on time.
Q5. He reached home with the coins in his pocket. What happened then?
Answer: After reaching home he couldn’t suppress his temptation for fresh Jalabis. He rushed to the shop of halwai. He bought jalebis and enjoyed them.
Comprehension Check
Q1.(i) Why didn’t he eat all the jalebis he had bought?
Answer: He bought a heap of jalebis with one rupee. He ate manyjalebis. His stomach was so
full that he couldn’t eat any more jalebi.
(ii) What did he do with the remaining jalebis?
Answer: He distributed the remaining jalebis to the children who had assembled in the gali where he was eating the jalebis.
Q2. “The fear was killing me.” What was the fear?
Answer: He had eaten so much of jalebis that it might pop out of his mouth with every burp.
Q3. “Children’s stomachs are like digestion machines.” What do youunderstand by that? Do you agree?
Answer: This means that children can digest almost anything edible. This is because their internal systems work well.
This statement is partially true because children eat with their heart instead of head, and so, their stomachs are conditioned to digest almost all types of food.
Q4. How did he plan to pay the fees the next day?
Answer: He hoped to get the scholarship money next day. So, he planned to pay the fees the next day with that money.
Q5. When it is time to pay the fees, what does he do? How is he disobeying the elders by doing so?
Answer: When it was time to pay the fees, he tucked his bag under his arm and left the school. He kept walking, praying for some miracle to happen which would save him that one time. He reached the Kambelpur railway station. The elders had warned him to never cross the railway tracks. They had also warned him that one must never eat sweets with one’s fees money. However, he had disobeyed them by doing so.
Comprehension Check
Q1. What was the consequence of buying jalebis with the fees money?
Answer: The consequence of buying jalebis was when he got the news of receiving his scholarship the next month. Out of fear, and intention to hide from everyone, he fled from the school and went to the railway station. He remained absent for the first time in his life as a result of buying jalebis with his fees money. He disobeyed his parents for the first time and did something that his conscience would not allow.
Q2. His prayer to God is like a lawyer’s defence of a bad case. Does heargue his case well? What are the points he makes?
Answer: The boy tried very hard to please God with his requests and recited verses from the entire namaz. -He said that he even knew the last ten surats of the Quran by heart, He could also recite the entire ayat-al-kursi for the Almighty right away. -He deeply regretted his act of eating jalebis with the school fees money,
He admitted that he made a grave mistake. -He added that he wouldn’t have spent the fees money on jalebis if he was aware about the delay in scholarship that month. -He also mentioned that he knew that there is no shortage of anything in God’s treasury. Even the chaprasi at his place took a whole lot of money to his home every month. Furthermore, he stated that he was the nephew of a big officer and therefore, pleaded to God to give him just four rupees. Having said all this, he prayed earnestly to Allah Miyan and argued his case like a lawyer in front of Him.
Q3. He offers to play a game with Allah Miyan. What is the game?
Answer: The game is that he will go upto the signal, touch it and come back. And in the meantime God should put four rupees under a big rock.
Q4. Did he get four rupees by playing the game? What did he get to seeunder the rock?
Answer: He didn’t get four rupees by playing this game. When he lifted the rock, he saw a hairy
worm instead of rupees.
Q5. If God had granted his wish that day, what harm would it have causedhim in later life?
Answer: If God had granted his wish that day, he would never have learnt from his mistake. He would have continued doing such wrong deeds, believing that God would save him after his persuasion.
Excercise
Q1. Select and read sentences that show
- that the boy is tempted to eat jalebis.
- that he is feeling guilty.
- that he is justifying a wrong deed.
Answer: That the boy is tempted to eat jalebis
- Jalebis are meant to be eaten, and those with money in their pocket can eat them.
- But then, these jalebis are no common sort of jalebis either. They’re crisp, fresh and full of syrup.
- My mouth watered.
- Thoroughly fed up, I rushed out of the house bare foot and ran towards the bazaar.
That he is feeling guilty
- My head started to spin.
- When the recess bell rang I tucked my bag under my arm and left the school.
- Now for the crime of eating a few jalebis, for the first time in my life I was absent from school.
- Sitting there under the tree, at first I felt like crying.
That he is justifying a wrong deed
- I didn’t eat them all by myself, though I fed them to a whole lot of children too.
- ‘Allah Miyan! I’m a very good boy. I have memorised the entire namaaz. I even know the last ten surats of the Quran by heart.
Q2. Discuss the following points.
- Is the boy intelligent? If so, what is the evidence of it?
- Does his outlook on the jalebis episode change after class VIII? Does he see that episode in a new light?
- Why are coins made to ‘talk’ in this story? What purpose does it serve?
Answer:
- Yes, the boy is intelligent. He receives a scholarship, and is loved and appreciated by his teachers. He is a promising student, and had never been caned until that point. Besides, he explains his temptation to buy jalebis by making us believe that it was the coins that tempted him, and the mistake wasn’t his at all.
- Yes, his outlook on the jalebis episode changes after Class 8. He realizes that if God had given him what he wanted back then, he would never have worked hard to achieve anything in life.
- The coins are made to talk to show us how children imagine being tempted. They may not understand that the source of all temptation is their head. So, they put this blame on something outside them.
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