Question

NCERT VIII - It So Happened

Is Velu happy or unhappy to find work? Give a reason for your answer.

Answer 1

Velu never thought of doing the dirty work of rag-picking when he left his village. But the harsh reality forced him to do so. The fact that he is planning to switch over to a better job indicates that he is not happy at all

Answer 2

Answer:

No Velu was not happy to find work.

Explanation:

She threw him a pair of old shoes without laces and pushed a sack and a stick into his hands. Velu was confused. What work did she want him to do with these things? The only work he had ever done was on the landowner’s farm, weeding and taking cows out to graze. “Are there any farms in the city?” he asked Jaya. She laughed and thumped her stick on the ground. “Farms! There are no farmers here. We are ragpickers.” “Ragpickers?” “See my sack? Full of things I collected.” “Collected? From where?” asked Velu. “From rubbish bins, where else?”. “You collect rubbish?” Velu had never heard of such a thing.

From this above conversation we see that Velu is not used to do any work other than farming.He finds this job weird and had never heard of it.

Velu scratched his head and sighed. I’ll do it for now, he thought, until I find a better job.

From this above line we know that this job was taken up by Velu forcefully as he did not know any other person who could give him a job and had to do this to fill his stomach.