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
Ans:a.The scene of fair was very lively they were laughing,shouting.It was very crowded.
b.A stranger who was struggling through the crowd to devote himself in a temple, heard his cry ,so he picks him up in his lap and goes to the main fair
Answer:
The child witnessed many wonderful scenes on his way to the fair. he saw toys at a shop, beautiful sunny mustard fields, butterflies and dragon flies too. The insects fascinated him as did the doves in the grove. He came across big groups of people going to the fair. He was constantly distracted by flowers and worms and insects. Once there, he saw sweetmeat sellers, balloons, toys and much more.
The man in the shrine rescued the lost child. He lifted him up in his arms and tried to soothe him. He took him to the nearest roundabout swing and offered to buy him flowers, balloons and sheets.
Before separation the child was very happy and excited at the fair. He was fascinated with all the things that were displayed at the stalls. He wanted to have all the things like his favourite toys, sweets, flowers, etc. He also wanted to go for a ride. But after separation the boy just wanted to be with his parents. He was not interested in any of those things which he kept longing to have from the stalls. In the absence of his parents these things did not give him any satisfaction.
The underlying theme of the story " The Lost Child " is the
universality of a child's desire for everything that he claps his
eyes on . All that the child witnesses from the toys lining the
street , to the dragon flies in the mustard field to the snake
swaying to the tunes of a pungi obsesses the child .It is a visual
assault on his senses . He looks at everything in wonder , his
senses almost rejoicing being alive.His parents on the other hand
are like a parental control filter , abstaining him from the lures
of the illusionary world as if secretly knowing that what he needs
most is entirely something else . A quiet reminder that the child
must learn to prioritize whats important and whats not in life . In
the end when the child loses his parents he understands what his
parent's silent gestures and reprimands were trying to teach him .
He realizes now that what he wanted most was his parents . He
continuously refuses everything that the kind stranger offers to
console him with - exactly the very same things he was goading his
parents for moments ago . Within minutes his life changes and
offers him an entirely new perspective of looking at life and
understanding it for what it really is