ncert supplementary books chapter jalebis where did the boy run into ?
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It So Happened
The Jalebis
Question 1: Why didn’t he pay the school fees on the day he brought money to school?
Answer: The teacher who was in charge of collecting the fees was on leave on that day. So the child did not pay the school fees on the day he brought the money.
Question 2: What were the coins ‘saying’ to him? Do you think they were misguiding him?
Answer: The coins were ‘saying’ to him to buy jalebis and enjoy them. The money was meant for the school fees and coins were tempting him to divert it for pleasure of jalebis.
Question 3: Why didn’t he take the coins’ advice? Give two or three reasons.
Answer: He was an honest boy. He was studious and had an image to protect in the school. He did not want to misuse the money meant for school fees. He did not want to get caught doing wrong things.
Question 4: What did the oldest coin tell him? Did he follow his advice? If not, why not?
Answer: The oldest coin advised him to buy jalebis on that day and pay the fees from scholarship money. The scholarship money was to arrive on the very next day. The boy was proud of getting scholarship and did not want to hurt his reputation so he did not follow the coin’s advice.Question 5: He reached home with the coins in his pocket. What happened then?
Answer: When he reached home the coins started to choke their voices in an effort to persuade the boy. Then the boy ran towards the shop selling jalebis to follow coin’s advice.
Question 6: Why didn’t he eat all the jalebis he had bought? What did he do with the remaining jalebis?
Answer: The quantity of jalebis was too much to be finished by one child alone. He ate as much as he could. Later on he distributed rest of them to children in the street.
Question 7: “The fear was killing me.” What was the fear?
Answer: The fear of getting caught of doing the dishonest act was killing him. If he would have refused to have dinner then everyone would have asked for the reason. He could not even fake an illness because he feared that the doctor would be in a position to know about jalebis.
Question 8: “Children’s stomachs are like digestion machines.” What do you understand by that? Do you agree?
Answer: This statement is to convey the robust digestive ability of children’s stomach. As children are constantly growing and spend their time in lots of physical activities so usually they can digest more than usual diet.
Question 9: How did he plan to pay the fees the next day?
Answer: He was expecting his scholarship to come the next day. From that money he had planned to pay his fees.
Question 10: When it is time to pay the fees, what does he do? How is he disobeying the elders by doing so?
Answer: After he fled from the school he reached the railway station. His elders had always advised him against crossing the railway line, but he was hell bent on crossing that line.