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प्रश्न
Answer the following question in 120 − 150 words :
Sophie lives in a world full of dreams which she does not know she cannot realise. Comment.
उत्तर
The chapter Going Places begins with Sophie telling Julie that one day she would have a boutique or be an actress. If she ever becomes as actress, she would have the boutique on the side as actresses don’t work full time. This clearly shows that Sophie loves living in a world of dreams. Perhaps we can take these dreams as being achievable ones. But her fantasy about the football player Danny Casey shows us that she lives completely lost in her world of fantasy. She strongly believes that she has met Danny Casey despite people not believing in her words. She is so deeply lost in her world of dreams that she does not even doubt her capability of achieving them. Towards the end of the chapter, we see her imagination getting a boost when she sees Danny Casey crisply striking the ball into the goal.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Answer the following question in 120 – 150 words:
Teachers always advise their students to dream big. Yet, the same teachers in your classrooms find fault with Sophie when she dreams. What is wrong with Sophie's dreams?
Answer the following question in 120 – 150 words:
Teachers always advise their students to dream big. Yet, the same teachers in your classrooms find fault with Sophie when she dreams. What is wrong with Sophie's dreams?
Answer the following question in 120 − 150 words :
How different is Jansie from Sophie?
Answer the following question in 120-150 words :
It is not unusual for a lower middle class girl to dream big. How unrealistic were Sophie's dreams ?
Why did Jansie not approve of Sophie’s dream ?
Notice these expressions in the text. Infer their meanings from the context.
1. incongruity 5. arcade
2. prodigy 6. amber glow
3. chuffed 7. wharf
4. solitary elm 8. pangs of doubt
What were the options that Sophie was dreaming of? Why does Jansie discourage her to have such dreams?
Why did Sophie wriggle when Geoff told her father that she had met Danny Casey?
Does her father believe her story?
How does Sophie include her brother Geoff in her fantasy of future?
Sophie and Jansie were class-mates and friends. What were the differences between them that show up in the story?
Why did Sophie like her brother Geoff more than any other person? From her perspective, what did he symbolise?
What socio-economic background does Sophie belong to? What are the indicators of her family’s financial status?
Discuss in pairs
1. Sophie’s dreams and disappointments are all in her mind.
2. It is natural for teenagers to have unrealistic dreams. What would you say are the benefits and disadvantages of such fantasising?
Why didn’t Sophie want Jansie to know about her story with Danny?
Which was the only occasion when she got to see Danny Casey in person?
Look for stories or movies where this theme of hero worship and fantasising about film or sports icons finds a place.
