Question

(Reading Comprehension & Word-Vocabulary)
1.
Read Extract of (Ch-6 pg. 72-73) and answer the following questions:
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself."
Questions:
i. To whom do these words originally belong? Who quotes them in this extract?
ii. Whom are these lines addressed to?
iii. In what context have these lines been spoken?
iv. What opinion do you form about Kalam's father from these lines?
v. Tell the meaning of 'longing'​

Answer 1

➡➡Samsuddin appointed Kalam as a helping hand to catch these bundles. Thus Kalam earned his first wages with the help of his cousin. (c) What light does the extract throw on Kalam's character? Ans: The extract shows that Kalam was grateful to Samsuddin for having helped him earn his first wages.➡

➡➡The poem “The Heart of the Tree” is addressed to the readers. The poet does not use any second person pronoun like ‘you’. But, he just asks the same question “What does he plant who plants a tree?” in the opening line of each stanza and attempts to answer it by himself.➡