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CBSE Solutions Class 8 English It So Happened
Page No. 9
Comprehension Check
Q1. Velu stood on the platform but he felt “as if he was still on a moving train”. Why?
Answer: Velu stood on the platform but felt as if he was still on a moving train because his legs were still wobbly and shaky after the journey to Chennai. Usually, the effect of a moving train stays for some time after the end of the journey.
Q2. What made him feel miserable?
Answer: Velu was hungry and tired. He saw as many people as he had seen only in the village fair. They were all walking with their luggage. Velu was much confused. He did not know what to do. This made him feel miserable.
Q3. (i) Velu travelled without a ticket. Why?
Answer: Velu travelled without a ticket because he had no money.
(ii) How did he escape the ticket collector’s attention?
Answer: He escaped the ticket collector’s notice because the ticket collector did not come to that unreserved compartment.
Q4. Why had Velu run away from home?
Answer: Velu was from a poor family and he and his sisters would work hard for a living. But his drunkard father would snatch away all their earnings and spent it on drinking. The little boy ran away from his home as he was very annoyed with his father.
Q5. Why did he decide to follow the ‘strange’ girl?
Answer: Ans: Velu came to Chennai after running away from his home but he had no idea about the place. He had no idea about where to go, what to do and was hungry after two days of the journey. He felt it was better and safer to follow the ‘strange girl’ since she had an idea about the place.
Comprehension Check
Q1. Can Velu read Tamil and English? How do you know?
Answer: Velu could read Tamil but not English. When he saw the huge signboard, he could not understand what it meant because the writing was in English. Later, when the girl pointed at a large building, Velu read the Tamil sign and came to know that the building was the Central Jail.
Q2. “If you are not careful, you will soon be counting bars there,” the girl said.
(i) What is she referring to?
Answer: The girl said these words while pointing at the Central Jail. Thus she is referring to the jail in this context.
(ii) What does she mean when she says “If you are not careful…”?
(She says something a little later which means the same. Find that sentence.)
Answer: She means to say that if Velu won’t be careful or vigilant enough, he could be behind the bars. After sometime she says, “You don’t have to do anything. Just don’t get caught, that’s all.”
Q3. (i) Where did the girl lead Velu to?
(ii) What did they get to eat?
Answer: (i) The girl led Velu in front of a big building where a wedding was taking place
(ii) Velu got to eat a vada and a squashy banana, while Jaya ate a banana.
Q4. What work did she do? Think of a one-word answer.
Answer: Ragpicking
Comprehension Check
Q1. (i) What material are the ‘strange’ huts made out of?
Answer: The strange huts are made out of metal sheets, tyres, bricks, wood, plastic, etc.,
(ii) Why does Velu find them strange?
Answer: Velu found the huts strange because in his village, the houses were made of mud and palm leaves. The huts he saw were made up of all sorts of things and looked like they could fall any moment.
Q2. What sort of things did Jaya and children like her collect and what did they do with those things?
Answer: Jaya and children like her collected paper, plastic, glass and such other things. They sold these things to Jam Bazar Jaggu. Later, he sold them to a factory.
Q3. Is Velu happy or unhappy to find work? Give a reason for your answer.
Answer: Velu is not at all happy. He had never done such a dirty job in his village.
Excercise
Q1. Is Velu a smart boy? Which instances in the text show that he is or isn’t?
Answer: Velu was initially a very naive boy who ran away from his village to avoid the torture of his drunkard father. However, when he arrived at a big city, Chennai he felt lost and miserable among so many people. Soon he met Jaya, a rack-picker who helped him to get some food as she realised he was starving. From then on, Velu acted smartly by following her as he didn’t know where to go and what to do in such a big city.
On his way, he read the Central Jail hoarding written in Tamil and Jaya warned him that he should not do anything stupid and should avoid getting caught by the policemen. He kept following her until she took him to the slum area where he saw the strange huts which were made up of metal sheets, tyres, bricks, wood and plastic. They stood crookedly and looked as if they would fall any moment. Soon Jaya told him how she and other children collected glass, paper and other stuff and hand it over Jam Bazaar Jaggu, who further sold it to a factory nearby. Seeing all this, Velu agreed to work as a rag-picker like Jaya for the time being until he finds a suitable job for himself.
Q2. Do you think Jaya is a brave and sensitive child with a sense of humour? Find instances of her courage, kind nature and humour in the text.
Answer: Jaya was a girl of Vedu’s age who lived and sustained herself in the big city without any help. She was a ragpicker and knew her way around the city. She knew the places that were dangerous for them and places where they could find food easily. Velu was an unknown boy she met at the station. Though she didn’t have enough to sustain herself she still helped Velu in the best possible ways. She was funny too. When she dragged him to help him cross the road she said, “What do you think you’re doing? Grazing cows? If you stand around in the middle of the road like that, you’ll be chutney.”
Q3. What one throws away as waste may be valuable to others. Do you find this sentence meaningful in the context of this story? How?
Answer: Yes, this story shows that what one throws away as waste might be valuable to others. People throw away empty bottles, papers and broken glasses as waste because these items are not of use for them. Jaya and other children like her collect these items and other such things and earn a living by selling these to others. People throw away food that is extra or has gone rotten. At weddings, a lot of food is wasted and goes to the garbage bins. These poor children eat from the bins and satisfy their hunger. The old shoes and tattered clothes that people throw after use are of a big help to poor people such as these children. In the story, Velu’s feet were burning because of excessive heat. Jaya gave him an old pair of shoes, which did not have laces, so that his feet were somehow protected.
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