please help me to complete my homework class 9 ncert English( The lost child)
a) Describe the scene of the fair?
b) Who rescued the lost child? What did he offer to buy him?
c) How does the behaviour of the child
before and after his separation from his parents show that he has great love for his parents?
d)Justify the title of the story?
e) Describe, in brief, the theme or the message of Mulk Raj Anand's story " The Lost Child"?
f) How was the child lost in the fair?
Answers
Answer:
(a) the fair have lots of things like balloons, sweet,garland, flowers, butterflies and trees along the road of the fair ,the flute music being played by the snake charmer etc...
(B)the lost child rescued by the man in the temple. he offers balloons, sweets,ride in the bull,to him.
(e)In the story The Lost Child by Mulk Raj Anand the main themes are that of desire, connection, kindness, materialism, acceptance, desperation and security. The story is said to be in the third person by an anonymous narrator. From the beginning, the story's reader feels that Anand describes the theme of desire.
(d)The Lost Child is the story of a small child who gets lost in a fair. He had gone with his parents to the fair but loses them when he gets engrossed in looking at a roundabout swing. The story highlights the bond of love and affection that the child shares with his parents.
(f) when the child listen the flute music played by the snake charmer he goes there and he lost his parents.
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