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Answer:
Discuss these questions in small groups before you answer them.
When is a grown-up likely to say this? Don’t talk with your mouth full.
When are you likely to be told this? Say thank you.
When do you think an adult would say this? No one thinks you are funny.
Solution:
The grown-ups are likely to tell the children not to talk while their mouth is full of food.
The children are likely to be reminded to Say thank you when they receive a gift or a favour from someone.
Adults are likely to tell children, ‘no one thinks you are funny’ when the children are too shy to speak or perform before the others.
Question 2:
The last two lines of the poem are not prohibitions or instructions. What is the adult now asking the child to do? Do you think the poet is suggesting that this is unreasonable? Why?
Solution:
The adult is now asking the child to think independently. The poet finds this entirely unreasonable because the young child has not been trained to use his mind. He has only been trained to follow the instructions given by the adults.
Question 3:
Why do you think grown-ups say the kind of things mentioned in the poem? Is it important that they teach children good manners, and how to behave in public?
Solution:
The adults constantly give instructions to their children for various reasons. They try to train them to behave in a decent, well-mannered and Sophisticated way. This, however, robs away their childlike innocence
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The final couplet of the poem shows that perhaps the young child has grown up. However, the adults around him continue to reprimand him. But, this time for a different reason. The child is unable to decide anything for himself. He is not certain about anything. It’s quite ironical as the entire childhood of this child was spent blindly following the instructed