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What are 'compulsive habits'? What does Maxwell say are the compulsive habits of

(i) school children
(ii) Mij?

Answer 1

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The habits become compulsive when a person repeats them persistently without getting any actual pleasure out of it.

(i) The school children usually have a habit of placing their feet squarely on the centre of each paving block or touching every seventh upright of the iron railings on their way to and from school.

(ii) Mij used to move Maxwell by pulling him towards the frontage of the school, he would jump on to it, and gallop the full length of the wall distracting pupils as well as the staff.

Answer 2

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What are " compulsive habit " ? What does Maxwell say are the compulsive habit of the

(i) school children

(ii) mij

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Compulsive habits are usually strange act or behaviour which a person does without clear reason. For example a cricket player may put on his right shoes first as he believes it would bring him good luck or a kid jumping over a fence, instead of going through the passage way. Usually compulsive beahviour of children are full of childhood mischief and those of adults are of incorrigible type.

1. As per this story, children must place their feet squarely on the centre of each paving block; must touch every seventh upright of the iron railings, or pass to the outside of every second lamp post.

2. Mijbil while on its way to home would jump over the boundary wall railing and run at full speed throughout its length.

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