Rainbow

 

The Pace for Living

Questions & Answers: -

A. Work in small groups and do the following :

Q. 1. Talk to your friends and seek their opinion on the life-style

of the modern youth, Ask them :

(i) Do you find life leisurely or fast ?

(ii) Are you satisfied with what you see today ?

Ans. (i) I asked some of my friends whether they found their life

leisurely or fast or not. Some of them replied in negative and some in

affirmative.

Group A : We find our life leisurely and pacy because we enjoy

various modern facilities of life without any care. We have no

responsibility of any work or achievement. We enjoy our real freedom.

So, the life today is leisurely and pacy.

Group B: We do not find our life leisurely or pacy because when we

want to do something, we find it difficult to accomplish. We only, then,

wander in the world of fancy. Nobody takes care for another. As a result

everybody is unsafe.

(ii) Group A : Some of my friends answered that they are very

satisfied with what they find today. They have a wide way before them

to flourish. There is no cares and anxiety in today's life because our life

has become mechanical and we find everything easy to do with

machines. Today's life needs very little efforts of ours.

Group B: Some of my friends say that they are not satisfied today

with what they see around. The life has become very complex and fast.

The machines have made them instrumental. Individual activities have

been freezed. Everybody is running after a crowd to get more and more

but nobody cares for the other.

I saw a play in ..... pace of the machines.

B. Answer the following questions briefly :

Q. 1. Where did the writer watch the play ?

Ans. The writer watched the play in Dublin.

Q. 2. Who was the chief character in the play ?

Ans. In the play, the chief character was an elderly corn-merchant of

Irish country town.

Q. 3. Does the writer dislike rapid movement in every field ?

Ans. No, the writer did not dislike rapid movement in even

field.

Q. 4. In which situation, does the writer find himself in the

Ans. In cinema the writer finds himself in a hopeless fog and is

unable to follow the film.

cinema?

Q. 5. How does the writer classify himself as a thinker ?

Ans. The writer has classified himself as a member of the tribe of

slow thinkers.

TEXT QUESTIONS AND THEIR ANSWERS

C. 1. LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS:

Q. 1. Write a few sentences about the elderly corn-merchant.

Ans. The corn-merchant was an elderly man. He was anxious due to

the current fast trend of life. He was a slow person. His nephew was

cheating him. His wife was extravagant. She believed in spending £ 10 on

a holiday. In short, we can say that the pace of life was too much for him.

So, he was anxious.

Q. 2. "They tell me there's an aeroplane now that goes at 1,000

miles an hour. Now that's too fast!" What light does the remark of the

corn-merchant throw on the fast life today ?

Ans. The statement enlightens that the pace of life has become so fa

today that the grown up people and he who is slow thinker are unable

confront with it. It is the life of machines today to which grown up perso

cannot stride. Elderly people feel that the pace for living today is m

suitable for man.

O. 3. What sort of excitement do we have today which o

ancestors lack ? Is it an advantage or a disadvantage ?

Ans. Today we have the excitement of fast-going life. We can en

different experiences and pleasure in a short time today. Our ancestors E

no excitement in their life, they were contented with what they had alrea

with them. They did not aspire for a pacy life or for getting something m

and more.

The excitement we feel today is the need of time. Without it we car

do today. But, getting too much excited is harmful for human life, so

a disadvantage.

Q. 4. Who are taken to be slow thinkers ? How are the slow

hinkers handicapped today ?

Ans. Our ancestors or there might be some tribes who are taken to be

low thinkers.

. The slow thinkers cannot complete in race of life today. because

verything is running fast. The slow thinkers cannot get their living in

oday's life. The slow thinkers are guaranteed to get the lowest marks in any

ntelligence test today because all these tests today are designed to measure

he speed of our mind more than anything else. So, such slow thinkers are

aken to be handicapped.

Q. 5. What enlightenment does the writer seek from his wife ?

What does it suggest about the plight of the modern man ?

Ans. The writer, in the lesson, seeks enlightenment for the scenes and

characters in the film what he is watching with his wife. He is unable to

Follow the film and, so, he seeks enlightenment from her.

Such a man, as the writer is, today is considered to be handicapped in

che buşiness of getting a living.

Q. 6. Summarise the central idea of this essay.

Hints : See the 'Summary' of the lesson on page 5.

C. 2. GROUP DISCUSSION :

Discuss the following in groups or pairs :

Q. 1. Life has become too fast today.

Ans. The Topic has been discussed between Groups A and B.

Group A : Today the life has become very quick. We have to take

rapid action to accomplish our work. Every work is carried on, and

performed with the help of machine. So, man has to follow the machine.

Today no one has time to talk to another patiently. Everybody is running to

get more and more, to do more and more, and to know more and more

rapidly. Thus, the life, today, has become fast.

Group B: It is not correct to say that the life has become fast. The life.

always runs in its own course. The fact is that human needs and nature-have.

changed their direction. Rapid growth of population, revolution in transport

and communication have devalued the importance of human participation

in the business of getting a living. Machines, today, have simplified

everything. Even human mind has become mechanised today. Thus, we are

compelled to think that the life has become fast.

Q. 2. The fast fe of the western society a compelling the westerners to turn to India

Ans. The fast life of the Westen Society is compelling the Westerner

to turn to India.

Group A: In favour of the topic.

Group B: Against the topic.

A: The westerners have experienced the speedy business of life, The

hectic behaviour of people has peplezed them d nde them restless

They have lost their rest and plessure of life They do not get their

contentment. The life has become mnot

unrest. On the other hand the immaterial

to the people. So, the westerners are com

Crted boredome and

ce and solaCE

India.

B: It is not the effect of modern fst lif that has compelled the

westerners to turn to India but it is the psychological efiiect of life tha

distant thing looks charming. So, not only westerners are attracted toward:

Indian life, on the contrary Indians are also attracted towards the wester

culture and life. So, both the people are attracted towards other's life.

C. 3. COMPOSITION :

Q. I. Write a letter to your mother about a hectic day that you

spent.

Ans.

Nayatola, Chapra

Dear Mother,

6th May, 2010

I am very pleased to write you about a hectic day which I passed last-

time.

I was going to my school walking on the road. In the midway I saw

a great crowd moving speedily on the road. Shops were getting closed. The

crowd looted some of the shops and also burnt some of them. The crowd

was hurling brick-bats and smashing everything aside the road. Some

people were running away here and there. I became frightened. I too, took

my way hurriedly back to home.

Thank God, He saved me.

Çonvey my salute to father.

Your loving Son

To,

ZAX

Smt. Surekha Devi

Jahanabad.

Q. 2. As the secretary of the Drama Society of your school, write

a notice to invite the students to watch a play in Hindi. Mention the

title of the play, its writer, the venue and the time.

g the Westerners

Ans.

NOTICE

8 May, 2010

ness of life. The

le them restless.

All the students of the school are invited by the Drama Society to

watch a play in Hindi, Dhrubasatya, to be played in the school ground

on Monday, the 17 May, 2010, starting from 8 p.m. The play has been

written by Hari Shankar Thumba.

lo not get their

ed boredome and

peace and solace

- India.

XYZ

Secretary

Drama Society

s compelled the

fect of life that

ttroated towards

Q. 2. As the secretary of the Drama Society of your school, write

a notice to invite the students to watch a play in Hindi. Mention the

title of the play, its writer, the venue and the time.

g the Westerners

Ans.

NOTICE

8 May, 2010

ness of life. The

le them restless.

All the students of the school are invited by the Drama Society to

watch a play in Hindi, Dhrubasatya, to be played in the school ground

on Monday, the 17 May, 2010, starting from 8 p.m. The play has been

written by Hari Shankar Thumba.

lo not get their

ed boredome and

peace and solace

- India.

XYZ

Secretary

Drama Society

s compelled the

fect of life that

ttroated towards