Practice Zone-1
-1. What brought the doctor to Sue and Johnsy's house?
2. Why did Johnsy keep looking out of the window?
8. What did the doctor tell Sue after examining Johnsy?
4. What did Sue do to make Johnsy happy?
5. How did Behrman make his living? Why?
6. What reason did Johnsy give to Sue regarding counting the leaves?
7. What did Sue and Johnsy find the next day they got up?
8. What did Behrman do to help the two girls?
9. What did Johnsy tell Sue after she saw the last leaf was still hanging?
Answers
Explanation:
1)Johnsy was very ill so Sue had called the doctor to check Johnsy health.
2)Johnsy was waiting for the last leaf to fall because she thought when the last leaf would fall she would also die.
3)The doctor told Sue that Johnsy condition was not improving.He told that in such situation only medicine will not work she should have the interest to live.
4)Sue started doing paintings to make Johnsy happy.
Answer:
Johnsy had made up her mind that the day the last leaf fell off the creeper, she would die. So she was counting the leaves as they fell off the creeper.
The doctor was worried because there was no improvement in Johnsy’s condition. He felt that Johnsy was not responding to treatment because she had made up her mind not to do so. He felt she had lost her will to live and hence the medicines were not going to be useful to her.
Behrman was a sixty year old painter whose only ambition was to paint a masterpiece. He lived in the same building as Sue and Johnsy, and sometimes acted as a model for their paintings.
The leaf that he painted on the creeper was his masterpiece, because it was realistic that Johnsy did not realise that it had been painted. As a result, she recovered from her illness. Even though it was not a famous painting, it was one that saved a life, and thus, it was a masterpiece.