Summary of chapter 1 English class 9 pls tell me soon
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MAIN CHARACTERS:-
1.Margie:-
a young girl of 11.
hates reading.
shows interest in knowing about past schools from the real book.
2.Tommy:-
Margie's cousin.
2 years elder to Margie.
Finds a "real book".
likes reading book.
IMPORTANT POINTS OF THE STORY
Tommy, a young boy 13 found a "real book" , Margie wrote it in her diary.
it was a very old book , having printed pages.
the book was strange for both the children.
They belonged to future generation.
Tommy liked reading books.
Tommy told Margie that the book was about schools.
Margie felt awkward on it, asked Tommy why anybody would write about schools.
Margie did not like schools. Tommy told her that past schools were different to theirs.
Margie's mother had sent for (called) a county inspector as Margie's regular teacher was not working well.
In Margie's and Tommy's time is a future generation and in that generation they had regular or mechanical teachers.
They don't go to study anywhere but they have their schools at home.
They study five days in a week and on set regular hours.
The chapter "The Fun They Had" by Isaac Asimov, belongs to future generation.In this chapter we have been shown the differences between future and past time generation, specially in the way of education. Margie wrote in her diary on 17 May 2157 that Tommy found a "real book", which was a satrange experience for both the children.Tommy told Margie that the book was about past schools.It was a very old book and was found in a very bad condition.Tommy started reading that book.Margie first doubted why anybody would write about schools.It was very strange for both the children because they had screens as their books. They had regular teachers at home. Margie had been performing badly in Geography. Her mother sent for a county inspector. He came and repaired her regular teacher.They both children started reading book.Tommy told her that old time schools were very different to theirs.He told here that there were special buildings where same age of children come to study, the buildingwas called school. Mean while the County Inspector had repaired the mechanical teacher. Then Margie's mother called her for her class as it was the time of school, she went in her room sat in front of the teacher and submitted her homework. She kept thinking about the book, specially about those special schools where "The fun they (students) had".
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