2. Answer the following questions in about 150 to 200 words each.
a. Describe Phatik's experiences at school in Calcutta
b. Did Phatik miss his village? Support your answer with examples
from the story.
c. Compare Phatik's life in the village with his life in the city.
d. How did the general atmosphere of neglect affect Phatik
, and
how did he get into his teacher's bad books?
Comment on the significance of the line, 'Mother, the holidays
have come?
e.
Answers
(a) look at the pic
(b) Yes, Phatik missed his village a lot and he faced many hardships finding the home where he could be loved and adored. The story depicts his courage and strong will that kept him alive and moving throughout to find his beloved home.
(c) The river, the village landscape filled his tender heart and he lived merrily except for the arguments and quarrels he had with his widowed mother and younger brother Makhan. Life in Kolkata was totally different. There in the big city his free spirit was entirely lost. Like a caged animal he longed for the wild.
(d) For a boy of age fourteen , his village ; his home was the paradise .Phatik found his uncle's house a little torture as he was an unwelcomed guest . His aunt showed him no affection .He started to miss his times in his village where he used to have frien.ds , the fresh air of the village ,the broad river banks where he would wander about the live-long day singing and shouting for joy , the narrow brook where he could go and dive and swim at any time he like. Back in the city, the cramped atmosphere of neglect oppressed Phatik so much that he felt that he could hardly breathe surrounded by all those closed walls and houses in Calcutta . He felt like he lost his dignity when he lost all his books and complained about it to his aunt where his aunt showed her hatred towards him. And that day searching his books , drenched in rain was a turning point in Phatik's life .
