Answer in your own words.
(a) What did Revathi discover about her balsam plants?
(b) Why did she decide to keep her new knowledge ‘a secret’?
(c) How did the plants respond when Revathi played her favourite tune?
(d) How did the plants react to the fast rhythmic music?
(e) How did Revathi prove to the organisers of the competition, that the plants truly
belonged to her?
(f) What helped Revathi to claim her plants - her belief in magic or the belief in her
convictions? Explain your choice
Answers
Answer:
a) Revathi discovered that her stunted balsam plants moved towards her whenever she played raga Mohanam.
b)She decided to keep her new knowledge 'a secret' because it was a secret between her and her beloved plants.The plants bent towards her when Revathi played her favourite tune.
c)When Revathi played her favourite raga , the plant began to move because of the magical impact of the music on the balsam plant.When she played it, the plants responded by bending towards her in appreciation of the music as though they wanted to touch her, in their happiness.
d)Plants are the living being as others.Playing music for your plants may seem like a strange thing to do, but research suggests that any sound, including music, helps boost plant growth. Vibrations from sound waves seem to stimulate growth factors.
e)To prove to the organiser of the competition that the plants truly belonged to her, she rushed home quickly and brought her violin from her house. She claimed that her plants were music lovers and they respond when she plays for them.This proved that plants truly belonged to her.
f)Believe in her convictions helped Revathi to claim her plants. Because she knew that her plants responds to her favourite tune that is Raga Mohanam.She also told that she will prove how the plants is of her.
Answer:
Revathi decided to keep her new knowledge a secret because she felt that is was something only between her beloved plants, who she thoughts her friends or she may felt that nobody would believe her if she mentioned that her plants were music lovers.