COMPREHENSION
Answer these questions.
1. Why did Swami feel that the story in the newspaper could not be true?
2. How did Swami's father react to the story in the paper? What did he want
Swami to do?
3. What excuses did Swami give to avoid what his father wanted him to do?
4. Describe Swami's experiences in his father's office room.
5. How did Swami become a hero?
Answers
Answer:
1.Swami felt that because hi thinks how can a boy fight to a tiger he reacted that news of village's lad's bravery was unconvinced.
2.Swami did not like going to school and to avoid it when he made excuses to his mother, he was lovingly told that he could stay back. But when Swami's father came inside the room and saw Swami lying on his mother's bench, he was very angry at Swami.
3.All excuses made by Swami to avoid sleeping alone are waved away by his father who wants him to be courageous.
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4.Though Swami fell asleep when he slept under the bench, he was troubled by nightmares. He dreamt of a tiger chasing him, and his inability to escape as his feet were stuck to the ground and wouldn't move.
5.Swami became a hero by catching a thief at his father's office. In order to overcome his fear of sleeping alone, Swami's father makes him sleep at his office. ... When Swami was sleeping, he got a nightmare of a ghost chasing him and tries to catch hold of it to prevent from harming him.