Question

1. Describe the afternoon when the children wanted to play outside. 2. What did the children do as soon as they went out?​

Answer 1

Answer:

One hot summer afternoon, a group of children convinces their mother to let them play outside, on the condition that they stay on the veranda of the house. When they decide to play hide and seek outside, they fight over who will be “It.” One of the girls, Mira decides that they will play a game to determine who is It. This results in an older boy named Raghu becoming the It, and the kids all scatter to hide. Raghu quickly tracks down a smaller, younger boy named Manu, who becomes the first out.

Another of the younger kids, Ravi, hides in a locked shed by sneaking through a small gap in the wall. He is excited by his ingenuity in getting into the shed, but he is also afraid of being in there. It is dark and smells like death and animals. At various points, he thinks that a snake might be brushing up against him, or that insects might be crawling on him or watching him.