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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?
उत्तर
We all are asked to dream big in our lives by our teachers and people around us. A life without dreams would be dull and monotonous. But, living life completely on dreams and separating the self from the reality is harmful. Sophie knows that the fantasies that she creates in her mind can never be a part of her real life, yet she creates her own dream world and even tries to involve the people around her in her fake world. She willingly leads herself into believing things that might not be true or simple, made up in her mind. For human beings, fact and fiction do not belong to water-tight compartments because often the lines between the two become blurred in our mind. Sophie thinks of having a boutique and becoming a fashion designer. This imagination of hers shows her desire to move above her social status. But meeting Danny Casey, an Irish footballer, in her imagination, and even involving her brother Geoff in this unreal situation shows the destructive aspect of her dreams.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Answer the following in about 100‒125 words.
Has Sophie met Danny Casey? What details of her meeting with Danny Casey did she narrate to her brother?
Answer the following question in 120 – 150 words :
In one's approach to life one should be practical and not live in a world of dreams. How is Jansie's attitude different from that of Sophie?
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 :
Sophie lives in a world full of dreams which she does not know she cannot realise. Comment.
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?
Did Geoff believe what Sophie says about her meeting with Danny Casey?
Does her father believe her story?
How does Sophie include her brother Geoff in her fantasy of future?
Which country did Danny Casey play for?
How would you describe the character and temperament of Sophie’s father?
Why did Sophie like her brother Geoff more than any other person? From her perspective, what did he symbolise?
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?
Did Sophie really meet Danny Casey?
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.
Answer the following question in about 40-50 words.
Why did Sophie wish to delve more deeply in 'her brother's affections'?
