Question

..How did the children help the beggar?
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Answer 1

by giving them money and food

Answer 2

Answer:

The children didn't help the beggar with food or money.

But it was the music master's chappals that were gifted to the beggar because his feet were blistered walking on the road.

Explanation:

• The question is extracted from "A GIFT OF CHAPPALS", a story that carries a moral that helping people in need is the greatest act of humanity.

• The beggar was a poor, old person with a withered, starving, flat stomach, and a couple of remaining teeth stained brown with betel-biting.    

• For the past few days, he had been coming to Ravi's house. That day he had spread his upper cloth under the neem tree in Ravi's garden and was leaning against its trunk making himself quiet.

• He was sad and surprised by the harsh words said by Ravi's mother.

• He wanted nothing except to rest till the afternoon heat to bid goodbye.

• That was when the children noticed those large, pink, peeling blisters on his bare feet needing a pair of slippers to combat the hotness of afternoon heat on the road.

• The children searched everywhere for a pair of slippers. Later Mridu noticed the shabby-looking, but sturdy old ones in the verandah which they gave to the poor beggar and asked him to lease at once

• When the children got the beggar a pair of slippers, the beggar stared at it in amazement. He hurriedly flung his towel over his shoulder. Then, he pushed his feet into them and left, muttering a blessing to the children.

• The beggar was grateful to the children for their kindness, for their gift of chappals.

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