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Children at Work Extra Questions and Answers Class 8 English It So Happened
Children at Work Extra Questions and Answers Short Answer Type
Children At Work Extra Questions Question 1.
How did Velu reach Chennai Central?
Answer:
Velu reached Chennai Central after reaching Kannur on foot for a day through Kanyakumari express.
Children At Work Question Answer Question 2.
What was the age of Velu and why did he run away from his home?
Answer:
Velu was eleven – years old boy. He worked in fields and the little he earned was taken away by his father.
Question 3.
How was he feeling when he got down from the train?
Answer:
Velu was unsteady and uncomfortable when he got down from the train.
Question4.
What did he observe at the platform?
Answer:
Velu at first was shocked to see so many people at one place. People were in a hurry with their suitcase and even hit him. Announcement on loudspeaker was terrible to him.
Question 5.
What was he carrying along with him?
Answer:
Velu was carrying a bundle with him carrying a shirt, a towel, and a comb.
Question 6.
What was unusual about the girl he met at the platform?
Answer:
The girl was of his age wearing a knee length vests with unkempt hair. She was carrying a huge sack. She was picking up dirt plastic cups.
Question 7.
Why was he indecisive about following the girl?
Answer:
He was knew to the city, the girl was the first one who interacted with him and offered food. So he was not certain about anything.
Question 8.
What made Velu’s head spin?
Answer:
Velu was walking on the road and the vehicles were constantly passing by him. Smoke and dust flow at him. The experience on the road made him spin.
Question 9.
Why did she compare Velu to ‘grazing cows’?
Answer:
Jaya and Velu were crossing the road but Velu could not cope up with the noise and dirt, he froze on the road. Jaya scolded him and called him a‘grazing cow’ as it could meddle with the traffic.
Question 10.
Where did Velu go along with the girl?
Answer:
Velu went through the crowded streets to a big building along with the girl.
Question 11.
What is more serious then committing a crime to Jaya?
Answer:
Jaya had opined that it is very wrong to get caught. When Velu said that he was not afraid of jail as he did not do anything wrong. Jaya emphasized that he should not get caught anyhow.
Question 12.
How roads were better in village as compared to city for Velu?
Answer:
Velu was walking bare feet on the road in Chennai. Those were burning due to hotter and burning sun. Whereas in villages the road were muddy, thus he felt moist and soft to walk on the roads in village.
Question 13.
Where did they get their food from?
Answer:
There was a big garbage bin at the back of the massage hall. There were flies all around. Jaya picked up the left over’s from there to eat.
Question 14.
What compelled Velu to eat the food offered to him by Jaya?
Answer:
Jaya picked up Vada’ from the leftover. It was disdainful for Velu. But he had no money to buy food and he was very hungry, so he surrendered to his hunger as ate the food offered by Jaya.
Question15.
What was arrangement of lunch?
Answer:
Jaya informed him that once the lunch is served in the marriage function, they could have the leftover for lunch.
Question 16.
What did Velu observed at the living place of Jaya?
Answer:
Jaya lived in stinky lanes near puddles of water. The hutments were built out of metal sheets, tyres bricks, woods and plastics. They were crooked and might fall any time.
Question 17.
What did Velu learn about rag pickers?
Answer:
Jaya informed him that there were no farms. They were earning their living by rag picking. They sell the bottles, cups etc. in the Bazaar Jaggu.
Children at Work Extra Questions and Answers Long Answer Type
Question 1.
There are various laws for the betterment of children yet no noticeable change is evident. Do you agree?
Answer:
The constitution provides free and compulsory education for every child until the age of fourteen years. Labour laws also suggest that it is an offence to put a child into child labour and there are strict rules for it. Yet they are widely violated. The conditions throughout the country are all the same. Circumstances sometimes lead children to work even at the age where they should go to school to study and play. But the hostile condition led them to surrender to their fate.
Society and government organization should co-ordinate for the betterment of such deprived children. They should be given support and shelter. Then only their future would be bright. They could pursue their dreams and aspirations and work for the betterment of the nation.
Question 2.
Velu was optimistic and had not become the victim of poverty. What could be his strength to survive?
Answer:
Velu ran away from his village and came to Chennai. He worked in the farms and his earning were spent by his father on his drink. He left the village for a better place. But when he reached Chennai, he had to eat from garbage and had to walk bare feet on road. Then he compared his village life with his present. The hutments and job of rag picking was depressing to him. Yet he had not lose his heart. He decided to change for a better job once he get an opportunity. He did not like to compromise. It is evident that he would come out from such undignified life. His optimism is very obvious from his. statement.
Question 3.
Velu stood on the platform but he felt “as if he was still on a moving train”. Why?
Answer:
Velu stood on the platform but felt as if he was still on a moving train because his legs were still wobbly and shaky after the journey to Chennai. Usually, the effect of a moving train stays for some time after the end of the journey.
Question 4.
What made him feel miserable? :
Answer:
Velu felt miserable and exhausted because he had run away from his village two days ago and had not eaten anything except some peanuts and a piece of jaggery for the last two days.
Question 5.
(i) Velu travelled without a ticket. Why?
(ii) How did he escape the ticket collector’s attention?
Answer:
(i) Velu travelled without a ticket because he had no money.
(ii) He escaped the ticket collector’s notice because the ticket collector did not come to that unreserved compartment.
Question 6.
Why had Velu run away from home?
Answer:
Velu had run away from home because his father used to beat him everyday. His father would also spent the money earned by Velu and his sisters on drinking.
Question 7.
Why did he decide to follow the ‘Strange’ girl?
Answer:
He decided to follow the ‘Strange’ girl because he did not know where to go and what to do. Moreover, he did not have a plan for himself.
Question 8.
Can Velu read Tamil and English? How do you know?
Answer:
Velu can only read Tamil but not English. He failed to read the sign boards in English. However, he can read front Velu read the Tamil Sign. ‘Central Jail’.
Question 9.
“If you are not careful, you will soon be counting bars there, “the girl said.
(i) What is she referring to?
(ii) What does she means when she says “if you are not careful…”?
(She says something a little later which means the same. Find that sentence).
Answer:
(i) She was referring to the central jail.
(ii) When she said “if you are not careful…” to Velu, she meant that he should not get caught. All he had to do to stay away from jail was to not do something stupid and get caught by policeman.
Question 10.
(i) Where did the girl lead Velu to?
(ii) What did they get to eat?
Answer:
(i) The girl led Velu to a marriage hall.
(ii) They got some food from the garbage bin. It was leftover food.
Question 11.
What work did she do? Think of a one-word answer.
Answer:
Rag picking.
Question 12.
(i) What material are the ‘Strange’ huts made out of?
(ii) Why does Velu find them strange?
Answer:
(i) The ‘Strange’ huts were made out of metal sheets, tyres, bricks, wood and plastic.
(ii) Velu found the huts strange because in his village. The houses were made of mud and palm leaves. The huts he saw were made up of all sorts of things and looked like as if they would fall any moment.
Question 13.
What sort of things did Jaya and children like her collect and what did they do with those things?
Answer:
Jaya and other children like her collected paper, plastic and glass etc. They sold all that to a Kabadi or Junk-dealer to earn some money.
Question 14.
Is Velu happy or unhappy to find work? Give a reason for your answer.
Answer:
Velu was unhappy to find work because he had not run away from home to dig through garbage bins. The only work he had ever done was weeding and taking cows out to graze. However, since he did not know Chennai too well, he decided to work as a ragpicker till the time he found a better job.
Question 15.
Is Velu a smart boy? Which instances in the text shows that he is or isn’t.
Answer:
Yes. Velu seems to be a smart boy. He ran away from his village because of bad circumstances. When he reached Chennai, the girl, who was a ragpicker, .tried to help him. Initially, he thought of not taking her help. However, he was smart enough to realize that he was very hungry and did not know where to go. Therefore, he followed the girl. ‘ He knew how to read Tamil. When the girl asked him to eat the banana that she found in the garbage, he refused at first. However, he quickly realised that the girl very strange, still he continued to walk along with her. He tried to understand why she collected rubbish. He knew that he had not come to the big city to collect rubbish; however, he adjusted to the circumstances and decided to do the same work till we found a better job.
Question 16.
Do you think Jaya is a brave and sensitive child with a sense of humour? Find instances of her courage, kind nature and humour in the text.
Answer:
Yes, Jaya is a brave and sensitive girl. She takes pity on Velu and gets food for him. She herself earns her livelihood bravely by collecting discarded material and selling them. She has a sense of humour also. She calls the ‘dirty trickle of water Buckingham canal’.
Question 17.
‘What one throws away as waste may be valuable to others’. Do you find this sentence meaningful in the context of this story? How?
Answer:
Yes, the story shows that what one throws away as waste might be valuable to others. The empty bottles, paper and items of plastic are thrown out by the people. The ragpicker earn their living by collecting them. The waste is valuable and a blessing for them and their life depends upon it.