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He just sobbed, “I want my father, I want my mother.
3-Read the text from your Moments textbook and on the basis of your understanding of
the text answer the following questions:
Q1) What are the things the child sees on his way to the fair? Why does he lag behind?
Q2) In the fair he wants many things. What are they? Why does he move on without
waiting for an answer?
Q3) When does he realize that he has lost his way? How have his anxiety and
insecurity been described?
Q4) Why does the lost child lose interest in the things that he wanted earlier?
Q5) What do you think happens in the end? Does the child find his parents?
4-Share a similar anecdote from your childhood experience with at least two of
your friends.
5-Watch this video that tells about the author and one more of his famous stories
‘Coolie’.
Coolie by Mulk Raj Anand ( Explained in English).mp4
6-Write a first hand experience that you had, when you were a child and were
travelling with your family.Thisstory will be published in your school E Magazine.
7--Practice questions for Assessment:
A) Read the following passages and answer the questions:
1. He could not suppress the desire of his heart, even though he well knew the cold
stare of refusal in their eyes.
a. What does „he‟ well know?
b. What „desire of his heart‟ is being talked of?
c. Why has the narrator said that „he‟ couldn‟t suppress his heart‟s desire?
