Class 12 English Chapter 5 Going Places

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Going Places

PROSE SECTION

TEXTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Think as you read

1. Where was it most likely that the two girls would find work after school? 

Ans.The two girls were most likely to be absorbed in the biscuit factory.

2. What were the options that Sophie was dreaming of? Why does Jansie discourage her from having such dreams? 

Ans. Sophie was dreaming of setting up a boutique and if she did not have sufficient funds to open one, she would then work as a manager in a boutique. She also dreamt of becoming an actress and keep her boutique as a side business. She could even become a fashion designer or anything that had a touch of sophistication.

Jansie was more practical and rooted to reality. She knew that both of them were earmarked for the biscuit factory and their families did not have that kind Or money for Sophie to realise her dream.

3. Why did Sophie wriggle when Geoff told her father that she had met Danny Casey? 

Ans. Sophie knew she could not impress her father by saying she met Danny Casey and he would not even believe her. She also feared she might be caught in her lie which Geoff, being gullible, believed. Her father’s reaction was just what she had anticipated. He turned to look at her with disdain.

4. Does Geoff believe what Sophie says about her meeting with Danny Casey? 

Ans.Though Geoff initially had doubts about Sophie’s story, her accurate details of the meeting made him believe her. It was then that he told their father and later told Frank about it.

5. Does her father believe her story?

Ans. No, her father does not believe her story. He rather looks at her with disdain and ignores her totally and warns that she would talk herself into a load of troubles. He dismisses it as another of her wild stories.

6. How does Sophie include her brother Geoff in her fantasy of her future? 

Ans. Sophie had grand fantasies about her future. She was conscious of a vast world expectantly awaiting her arrival. She saw herself riding there behind Geoff. He wore new shining black leathers and she a yellow dress with a kind of cape that flew out behind. There was the sound of applause as the world rose to greet her and Geoff.

7. Which country did Danny Casey play for? 

Ans. Danny Casey played football for Ireland.

8. Why didn’t Sophie want Jansie to know about her story with Danny? 

Ans. Sophie wanted to keep her story a secret and confided in Geott. She knew if Jansie came to know about. it, then it would spread in the entire neighbourhood. There was also the risk of her lie being exposed.

9. Did Sophie really meet Danny Casey? 

Ans. No, Sophie did not meet Danny Casey. It was a creation of her fantasy as she longed for something like that to happen in her life.

10. Which was the only occasion when she got to see Danny Casey in person? 

Ans. The only occasion when Sophie got to see Danny Casey in person was on the football field where she went with her father and brothers. Danny played for the United and they won the match.

S.L. No.	CONTENTS
	PROSE SECTION
1	The Last Lesson
2	Lost Spring
3	Deep Water
4	Indigo
5	Going Places
6	Memoirs Of A Chota Sahib
	POETRY SECTION
1	My Mother At Sixty-Six
2	Keeping Quiet
3	Notes A Thing Of Beauty
4	A Roadside Stand
	VISTAS
1	The Tiger King
2	The Enemy
3	On The Face Of It
4	Memories Of Childhood
5	Magh Bihu Or Maghar Domahi

Understanding the text 

1. Sophie and Jansie were class-mates and friends. What were the differences between them that show up in the story?

Ans. Though Sophie and Jansie were class-mates, their attitude towards life and their temperaments were quite the opposite. Sophie was a dreamer and loved to live in a world of fantasies. It was not that she worked extra hard to achieve that dream but thought they would come by her way. Her dreams were far removed from the life she lived. She wanted a life of sophistication and glamour. Jansie, on the other hand, was very practical and rooted. She reminded Sophie that they were destined to work in the biscuit factory and she should not nurture her fanciful thoughts. While one is a fantastic dreamer and lives in a world created by her, the other does not dream at all but accepts life as it is planned out for them.

2. How would you describe the character and temperament of Sophie’s father? 

Ans. Our first introduction to Sophie’s father is at the dinner table with a sarcastic comment at Sophie on her claim to come into money. He is a stockily built man with a plump face which is sweaty and grimy after the day’s work. The manner in which he sat down to watch television and tossed Derek’s shoes onto the sofa portrays him as a man who is not very refined or sophisticated. There is an aggressive manliness about him. He is an avid football fan and goes to watch the match every week. Later he would go to the pub to celebrate United’s win.

Sophie’s father knew his daughter too well. When Geoff told him about the meeting with Danny Casey, he just looked at her disdainfully and warned her that she would get into lot of trouble if she kept talking this way. He never believed her ‘wild stories’.

3. Why did Sophie like her brother Geoff more than any other person? From her perspective, what did he symbolise? 

Ans. Sophie liked Geoff more than any other person, basically because of his nature. To her, he was an enigma. He was elder to her and spoke very little. There were areas about his life which were completely unknown to her and about which he spoke nothing. She wanted to be closer to him and confide in him all her secrets. She wished he showed his affections for her and that someday, he would take her with him.

To Sophie, Geoff symbolised her escape to the world of her fantasy. It was with him that she rode away to the world that has been waiting so long for her arrival. There was also a sound of applause as the world stood to greet them. His silent thoughts fascinated her simply because they were unknown to her and remained out of her reach.

4. What socio-economíc background did Sophie belong to? What are the indicators of her family’s financial status?

Ans. Sophie belonged to a lower middle-class background. There are plenty of indications which drive us to conclude this.The conversation between the two girls indicates their financial background. Sophie’s dreams are unrealistic as Jansie says they have been earmarked for the biscuit factory which means they have to work right after school. When Sophie reaches home, we get a picture of where she lives.The description of the house and the activities, her brother’s apprenticeship as a mechanic, father’s sweaty face, and mother’s pile of work are indications of their socio-economic status. They travel by bus to watch the football match and later Sophie sees her father’s bicycle outside the pub.

Talking about the text 

Discuss in pairs. 

1. Sophie’s dreams and disappointments are all in her mind.

Ans.Sophie is a starry-eyed teenage girl who lives in a world of fantasy. Not yet out of school, she is dreaming of owning her own boutique, becoming an actress or a renowned fashion designer. Coming from her kind of economic background, her dreams are too far-tetched and unrealistic. If she nurtures such dreams, disappointments are bound to arise. Again, in her fantasy about Danny Casey, she becomes so obsessed that it almost appears real and she too starts believing it. She waits for him imagining he would come to meet her, and when he doesn’t turn up she is disappointed and tries to console herself. So, her dreams and disappointments are all imaginary and are a creation of her own mind.

2. Is it natural for teenagers to have unrealistic dreams? What would you say are the benefits and disadvantages of such fantasising? 

Ans. There is a difference between dreams and fantasy though both belong to the unreal world. To have a dream means a long held ambition or wish which awaits fulfilment. Fantasy, on the other hand, is imagining improbable or impossible things. It is an imagined situation or event that is desirable but unlikely to happen. Teenagers should have dreams and work for its fulfilment. Only young minds have the ability to dream and change the world. If one has the conviction and the confidence of achieving, then there is no end to dreaming. Every invention in the history of mankind is the outcome of a dream.

However, fantasizing may not be as beneficial as dreaming. It can just bring fleeting happiness to think of things that are unlikely to happen in real life. Teenagers are prone to fantasizing because at their age they are not aware of life’s grinding realities. They like to fantasise themselves as heroes and heroines of films or other such fictitious characters which are far removed from reality. But once they come of age and step into reality they realise, at times with great disappointment, that their fantasies do not fit in anywhere. So, it is always good to dream and natural to fantasise in teenage. While one can lead to fruition if the focus is directed, the other may just fizzle out in time.

Working with words 

Notice the following expressions. The highlighted words are not used in a literal sense. Explain what they mean.

• Words had to be prized out of him like stones out of a ground.

• Sophie felt a tightening in her throat. If he keeps his head on his shoulders.

• On Saturday they made their weekly pilgrimage to the United.

• She saw…him ghost past the lumbering defenders.

Ans. • Words had to be prized out of him: It means that he spoke so less one had to put great effort to get words out of him. It was like struggling to dig out stones from the ground.

• a tightening in her throat: It means Sophie was very tense.

• keeps his head on his shoulders: It means he doesn’t get swayed away; he is stable and level-headed.

• they made their weekly pilgrimage: It means going to the football match every week was almost like a ritual and they did it without fail. They were almost devoted to the game.

• ghost past: She had a fleeting glance of Casey as he flashed past the clumsy defenders.

Noticing form 

Notice the highlighted words in the following sentences.

1. “When I leave, Sophie said, coming home from school, “I’m going to have a boutique.”

2. Jansie, linking arms with her along the street, looked doubtful.

3. “I’II find it,” Sophie said, staring far down the street.

4. Jansie, knowing they were both earmarked for the biscuit factory, became melancholy. 

5. And she turned in through the open street door leaving Jansie standing in the rain.

– When we add “ing” to a verb we get the present participle form. The present participle form is generally used along with forms of “be”, (is, was, are, were, am) to indicate the present continuous tense as in “Sophie was coming home from school.” 

– We can use the present participle by itself without the helping verb, when we wish to indicate that an action is happening at the same time as another.

– In example 1, Sophie “said” something. “Said”, here, is the main action.

– What Sophie was doing while she was “saying” is indicated by “coming” home from school”. So we get the information of two actions happening at the same time. We convey the information in one sentence instead of two.

– Analyse the other examples in the same way.

– Pick out five other sentences from the story in which present participles are used in this sense.

Ans. 1. She was conscious of a vast world out there waiting for her…..

2. He was kneeling on the floor in the next room tinkering with a part of his motorcycle…..

3. For some while, waiting, she imagined him coming.

4. Here I sit, she said to herself, wishing Danny would come, wishing he would come and sensing the time passing….

5. Sitting here waiting and knowing he will not come I can see the future….

Thinking about language 

Notice these words in the story.

• “chuffed”, meaning delighted or very pleased.

• “nosey”, meaning inquisitive.

• “gawky”, meaning awkward, ungainly.

These are words that are used in an informal way in colloquial speech.

Make a list of ten other words of this kind.

Ans. (i) dad.

(ii) be a natural.

(iii) real money.

(iv) prized out.

(v) pub.

(vi) jeered. 

(vii) damn. 

(viii) ghost past. 

(ix) date bit.

(x) Jansie kind of thing.

Writing 

– Think of a person who you would like to have as your role-model.

– Write down the points to be discussed or questions to be asked, if you were asked to interview that person on a television show.

Ans: Students can select a role-model from their family, neighbourhood, city, state, a national or international figure. The role-model may be from any field of activity. Points to be discussed or questions to be asked will vary according to the person you choose.]

Things to do 

Look for the other stories or movies where this theme of hero worship and fantasizing about film or sports icons finds a place.

Ans: Students Do Yourself.

ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS

Short answer type questions

1. Who were Sophie and Jansie? How were they alike and different from each other?

Ans. Sophie and Jansie. were two girls of the same neighbourhood. They were in the same class and both were teenagers. Apart from this, they were completely different in temperament and attitude towards life. While Sophie was a complete dreamer and lived in her world of fantasy, Jansie was practical and rooted to her ground.

2. Was Sophie’s ambition divorced from reality?

Ans. There was a vast disparity between Sophie’s dreams and her real world. She lived in a fantasy world and aimed for glamour and sophistication in whatever she would do. We cannot say her ambition was divorced from reality but for people ot her kind of socio-economic background, her dreams were fantastic and far from reality.

3. What made Sophie feel a “tightening in her throat?

Ans. The sudden contrast between her world of dreams and the reality at home brought the tightening feeling in her throat. A moment ago she was on her trip to becoming a boutique owner, an actress or a fashion designer. The sight of her mother stooped over the sink, her father in his vest, the clutter and pile ot dirty washing at the corner jolted her out of her fantasy.

4. What did Sophie think of Geoff?

Ans. Geoff was Sophie’s brother and elder to her. Unlike her, he spoke rarely and mostly kept to himself. Sophie romanticized his life and wanted to prod into the unknown areas which always fascinated her. Perhaps, there were also interesting people of whom he never spoke. She longed to meet them. She wished to be admitted more deeply into her brother’s affections.

5. How did Sophie’s father react to her story?

Ans. After dinner when Sophie’s father sat in front of the television, Geoff told him about Sophie’s meeting Danny Casey. Her father turned to look at her with disdain. He obviously did not believe her and even cautioned her to give up her wild stories. He said that she would land herself in big trouble if she kept talking like that.

6. Did Sophie meet Danny Casey? Why was she so fascinated by him?

Ans. Sophie did not meet Danny Casey at all. She hero- worshipped him and kept day dreaming about meeting or speaking to him. She, and all others of her age and beyond, was fascinated by Danny because he was a star footballer.

They being avid football fans idolized him. she knew he was unreachable and was thus more fascinated by his star appeal.

7. It’s a hard thing, this sadness. What was the ‘sadness’ about? Why was it hard?

Ans. The sadness was about not meeting Danny. She had to reconcile to the fact that her fantasy would never come true and she would never meet her hero. It was hard because she had lied to everyone and also to herself. Facing the truth was very difficult now.

8. What, according to Geoff, was the ‘unlikeliest thing’?

Ans. Geoff immediately dismissed Danny’s promise to meet Sophie the next week. Danny was too big a celebrity to wait for Sophie or not to have any other girlfriend. So he told Sophie that such a meeting was the most unlikely thing to happen in life.

9. What made Sophie feel that Geoff had not let her down, after all?

Ans. Sophie was initially very disappointed when Jansie revealed her knowledge about Sophie meeting Danny Casey. But later she realised that Jansie had no idea about the meeting next week. She felt relieved that Geoff did not betray her completely, and that something was still sacred between them.

10. She knew he would approve. Who was he’? What would he approve? Why would he approve it?

Ans. “He referred here is Danny Casey. In Sophie’s fantasy, Danny was to meet her the following week. Accordingly, she chose a quiet spot beside the canal beneath a solitary elm tree which would be perfect for lovers to meet. She imagined he would approve the place because no one would observe them there.

Long answer type questions

1. Sophie was an incurable dreamer. What were her dreams? How did she hope to fulfil them?

Ans. Sophie was not only a dreamer, she indulged in teenage fantasies that she almost believed in. Her dreams about her future always carried her to a world far from the one she lived in. Sophie dreamt of owning a boutique though she belonged in a lower middle-class economic background. When Jansie reminded that it would require sufficient money, she replied she would work as a manager because she had natural flair to be at the top. She could even become an actress and keep the boutique as a side business. Or else she would be a renowned fashion designer. She had no idea where the resources would come from but it had to have sophistication and glamour.

2. Describe Sophie’s family and her house as she enters after school.

Ans. To Sophie’s remark that she would buy a boutique, her father says she should think of buying a decent house if she came into money. Grimy and sweaty from the day’s work, her father was at the dinner table scooping shepherd’s pie with her younger brother Derek beside him. Her mother simply sighed as she stooped over the sink. The room was steamy from the stove and cluttered. Her father sat there in his vest, breathing heavily, and the dirty washing piled up in the comer. Sophie tilt a constriction in her throat and rushed to the other room to find her brother Geoff. He has been out school three years and apprenticing as mechanic, travelling to his work each day to the far side of the city. Geoff was kneeling on the floor tinkering with a part of his motorcycle over some newspaper spread over the carpet.

3. Sophie often romanticized Geoff’s silence. Can you describe Geoff’s world as Sophie imagined it?

Ans. Geoff had an enigmatic silence about him. He rarely spoke of his own. When he wasn’t speaking it was as though he was away somewhere in places she had never been. Wherever his thoughts may travel, it always fascinated her Simply because they were unknown to her and remained out of her reach. She felt there were exotic and interesting people in his life of whom he never spoke though he didn’t make friends easily. She wished he would take her into his affections but he probably thought her too young.

4. Who was Danny Casey? What influence did he have on Sophie and her family?

Ans. Danny Casey was a star footballer from Ireland. He played for United. He was a teenage idol and children hero- worshipped him. Everyone in Sophie’s family was a great soccer fan. Every Saturday, very religiously, they went to watch the match and wholeheartedly supported their team. Their ecstasy and involvement in the game shows us how Danny Casey has influenced their lives. Even back at home, Derek tells his mother how he wished Casey was an Englishman. Geoff had pictures of Danny all over the walls of his bedroom. That is exactly why he had become an object of Sophie’s fantasy and a topic for their after-dinner conversation.

5. Where did Sophie wait for Danny? Did Danny come to meet her? What did she do then?

Ans. The following week, after her supposed first meeting with Danny, she walked by the canal along a sheltered path lit by the distant lamps of the wharf. She had often played there as a child. There was a wooden bench beneath a solitary elm tree where she sat down to wait for him. She knew Danny would approve of the place. Danny did not come to meet her. It was all in her imagination which had no touch with reality.

Sad and dejected with an illusion of her own mind, she slowly walked back home. She found it difficult to bear the burden of the truth. Everyone would doubt her first meeting now. There was nothing left for her to explain anymore. She climbed the crumbling steps up to the street. As she passed by the pub, she saw her father’s bicycle and felt glad that she would not have to face him right then.

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