My Childhood English Beehive Class 9 Lesson 6 solution

       My Childhood

Thinking about the text

1. Answer this question in one or two sentence .

1. Where was Abdul Kalam's house?

Answer:

    Abdul Kalam' house was on the mosque street in Rameshwaram.

2.What do you think Dinamani is the name of. Give a reason for your answer?

Answer:

    Dinamani is the name of a local newspaper. It is so because Kalam traced the stories of the war in the  head lives in Dinamani.

3. Who were Abdul Kalam's school friends? What did they later became?

Answer:- 

    Ramanadha Sastry,Aravindan and shivaprakasan were Abdul Kalam's school friends. Ramanadha Sastry become the high priest of the Rameshwaram temple, Aravindan a transport business man and shivaprakasan was the catering contractor for the Southern railway.

4. How did Abdul Kalam earn his first wages?

Answer:

     During the second World war, the newspaper where bundled and thrown out of a moving train. Abdul Kalam earn his first wages by helping his cousin, who distribute newspaper in Rameshwaram, to catch this bundles.

5. Had he earned any money before that? In what way?

Answer: 

    Yes, Abdul Kalam had earned some money before he started helping his cousin. When the second World war broke out, there was a sudden demand for tamarind seeds in the market. He collect the seeds and sold them at a  provision shop on mosque street. Usually days collection earned him one aana.

2. Answer each of these question in short paragraph (about 30 word's)

1. How does the author describe:
(a). His father ,(b). His mother ,(c). Himself?

Answer: 

    (a). Kalam's father ,jainulabdeen was not a wealthy or, educated person. However, he was an honest and generous man, who passed great  innate wisdom. He was self-disciplined and avoided all insessential luxury.

(b). Kalam's mother, Ashiamma was an ideal helpmate to her husband. She believed in goodness and profound kindness, and she feed many people everyday.

(c.) The author described himself, as a short boy with undistinguished looks, who had a secure childhood. He is a honest and self disciplined person, who believe in goodness and dip kindness.

3.Discuss this question in your class with your teacher and then write down your answer in two or three paragraph each.

1. "on the whole, the small society of Rameshwaram was very rigid in terms of the segregation of different social group,"says the author.
1. Which social group does he mention? Where this group is easily identifiable (for example, by the way they  dressed)?

Answer: 

    He mentioned to social group of Rameshwaram orthodox Brahmins and muslims.yes these groups were easily identifiable. For example by the way dressed. Kalam wore a cap which marked him as a muslim. Ramanadha Sastry wore a seared thread which marked him Hindu.

2. Were they aware only of their differences or did they also naturally share friendships and experiences? (Think of the bedtime Stories in Kalam's house of who his friends were; and of what used to take place in the pond near his house.)

Answer: 

    They did share personal experience and friendship. Laksmana Sastry summoned the teacher who separated the author and his friend in the class and told him that he should not spread the poison of so8 inequality and communal intolerance in the minds of innocent children.

3. The author speaks both of people who were very aware of the difference amongst them and those who tried to bridge  these difference. can you identify such people in the text?

Answer:

     The school teacher encourage communal difference and sivasubramaina iyer discourage this maipratic.

4. Narrate two incidents that show how differences can be created,and also how they can be resolved. How can people cha6 their attitudes?

Answer: 

    The influential people can  do both the things.A teacher has a abil6 to bridge communal differences and can play with sentiments of the innocent and ignorant people.This is what the new teacher did. But the science teacher sivasubramaina iyer changed his wife's attitudes and show her the right path.

2.(1). Why did Abdul Kalam want to leave  Rameshwaram?

Answer:

     Abdul Kalam wanted to leave Rameshwaram to study at the district head quarters in Ramanathapuram.

(2). What did his father say to this? 

Answer:

     His father said that he knew he had to go away to grow . He gave the example of a seagull and said that a seagul flies across the sun alone and without nest.

(3). What do you think his words mean? Why do you think he spoke those words?

Answer:

     He spoke this words because he intended to his skills.He knew  the harsh reality of life that children may have to leave far from their parents to make their career and earn their livelihood. So he showed his wisdom and intelligence in ultering  this words.

No Men Are Foreign.

Thinking about the poem

1.(i) " Beneath all uniforms....." What uniforms do you think the poet is speaking about?

Answer:-The poet speaks about the various dresses that people of various countries where but beneath them the human body  is same.

(ii) How does the poet suggest that       all people on earth are the same?

      Answer:-The poet says that      nobody is different and peculiar. No  country is foreign. A single body breathes and beneath all uniforms. Moreover, the land is same everywhere.

2. In stanza 1,find five ways in which we all are alike.Pick out the words.

Answer:- 

    In the first stanza the poet says that there is no difference between the body of a citizen of one country and the citizen of another country. We have same kind of body ; we were same kind of clothes .we walk on the same planet and the end of all individuals is the same. 

3. How many common features can you find in stanza 2 ? Pick out the words.

Answer:- 

    The following common features are given in the stanza,

a. Sun 

b. Air

c. Water 

d. Peaceful harvests required for human survival

e. Same hands.

4. ".... whenever we are told to hate our brothers....." When do you think this happens? Why? Who 'tells' us? Should we do as we are told at such times? What does the poet say?

Answer:- 

    Some time some selfish people instigate the innocent to harm others. They do it for their own benefit. The common their  tricks and starts hating his fellow human beings. They tell them to cause riots. The poet says that one should not follow anybody's advice without out brooding over it. The poet repeatedly says that there is no difference  in them and the foreigners. The people of the entire world are the same.