Why was lela role in the engagement of sidda a survent in the sivasanker family
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Mr. Sivasankar was looking for a servant when Sidda came in. He appeared tidy. He said that he had been working for a doctor near the market and he was out of work as the doctor’s family left the town. Mr. Sivasankar sought his wife’s opinion on the matter. She too was positive about admitting Sidda.
While Mr. Sivasankar and wife were talking about this, their five year old daughter Leela came out. She liked Sidda and requested her parents not to send Sidda away. Thus, Sidda was appointed as servant at Leela’s house. Sidda was given two meals a day and four rupees a month. In return for this, he washed clothes, tended the garden, ran errands, chopped wood and looked after Leela.
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What was Mr. Sivasanker’s first remark of Sidda?
Mr Sivasanker studied Sidda and remarked that he didn’t seem a bad sort. He observed that Sidda looked tidy.
Why was Sidda’s request to work for Mr. Sivasanker readily accepted?
When Sidda came knocking Mr. Sivasanker’s door in search of a job, Mr. Sivasanker was looking for a servant for his family. Besides, unlike the ordinary servants, Sidda looked tidy.
Why was Mr. Sivasanker unable to make up his mind? How did he finally settle this crisis?
Sivasankar didn’t trust servants after a couple of servants had left his service. They were all bad servants. On seeing Sidda, Sivasankar felt that he could prove worse than the other servants. Although he discussed this matter with his wife, Sivasankar could not reach a decision. However, when his daughter Leela exclaimed her approval of Sidda, Sivansankar admitted Sidda.
What works were assigned to Sidda? What was he to earn?
Sidda had to wash clothes, tend the garden, run errands, chop wood and look after Leela. For this, Sidda was given two meals a day and four rupees a month.
Mr Sivasankar is a fickle minded man. Why do you think so?
Although in the beginning Mr Sivasankar seems to be very careful, he didn`t have the impression that Sidda was one of the bad sort but Leela decides about Sidda`s role. Mr Sivasankar trusts his daughter. After a while, when the chain has been stolen, Mr. Sivasankar gets critical about him. He is informed by the police that Sidda was a criminal.
How did Sidda prove to Leela that he knew the Moon?
Sidda, in his attempt to be more friendly with Leela, had to tell her a couple of lies and one of them was that he could touch the Moon. He told her that he had touched the Moon several times, perched on a coconut palm. To prove that he knew the Moon, he showed Leela the Moon in the sky and then brought her to their well and showed her the Moon’s reflection in the water too. Seeing this, she was thrilled and asked him how he was able to make the Moon fall into the well and Sidda replied that he had asked the Moon to follow them to the well. Thus Leela believed Sidda.
How did Leela play teacher to Sidda?
Leela held a class for Sidda in her own childish manner. She had a box filled with catalogues, illustrated books and stumps of pencils. It gave her great joy to play the teacher to Sidda. She made him squat on the floor with a pencil between his fingers and a catalogue in front of him. She had another pencil and a catalogue and ordered Sidda to write. And he had to try and copy whatever she wrote in the pages of her catalogue. When she saw that Sidda could not be a good student, she would scold him like any teacher does. She would ask him if his was the way she taught him to write B or draw a crow. However, she pitied him and redoubled her efforts to teach him but Sidda could not write or draw. At times Leela would make him sit in his chair for very long time till his wrists cracked.
How did Sidda escape from Leela’s punishments?
At times Sidda got really tired of Leela’s long long lectures and punishments. He would then lied that Leela was being wanted by her mother for dinner. Hearing this, Leela would stop his classes and run to her mother.
How do you understand Leela’s relationship with her parents?
The relationship between Leela and her parents seems to be distanced. On the one hand, her father trusts her and lets Leela decide about appointing Sidda. The parents let Leela wear jewels and she is very free although she is only 5 years old. She is allowed to do a lot of things. But on the other hand, Sidda seems to be more important for Leela than her parents. When Leela lost the chain, her mother slapped her. Mrs Sivasanker is not able to tell her stories, although she is her mother. Leela told her parents that Sidda had not taken the chain but the Mr Sivashankar doesn’t believe her. He warns his daughter and lets her know to behave. All in all, the relationship between Leela and her parents was very much material and