What actions of the schoolmate’s changed the author’s
understanding of life, people and comforted him emotionally
in the story “A House Is Not a Home”? What was his
reaction?
Answers
Explanation:
Everybody in the new school develop
empathy with the author's plight. His schoolmates pooled resources to buy a set of everything he needed in the school. This act of help creates a sense of solidarity among them. Now the author is realizing that the new school is full of friends and well-wishers. This gives him motivation to start his life afresh and to forget his past trauma.
Answer:
In the story “A house is not a home”, the author had just faced a tragic and great loss. So all his schoolmates coordinated with each other and bought him all sorts of things including everything he had lost. To the author it felt like Christmas with how much he was receiving. Additionally, people also introduced themselves to him and genuinely offered help and asked about him. He even made a few friends because of it.
The kindness and generosity displayed by his classmates made him feel much better and gave him hope that everything would be alright soon. With his newly renewed will to live, the author felt like his life would be alright and that he had people in his corner.
His house had burned down, his cat was gone, he was in a new school with no friends and teachers he knew and he did not have any belongings such as clothes, school supplies, etc.
The author was extremely depressed due to all the changes in his life. The news about the fire had also spread to the whole school.