What do you think happens in the end? Does the child find his parents?
The ending of the story is open for us to decide the results. At the end, the parents, who continuously believed that he was with them right from the starting of their journey may have suddenly realized that he was missing and come looking for the lost child. The helpful man who tried to console the little boy by providing him various things at the fair may have also asked him for the description of his parents and helped him to be reunited with them at the reception of fair.
When does he realise that he has lost his way? How have his anxiety and insecurity been described?
Why does the lost child lose interest in the things that he had wanted earlier?
In the fair he wants many things. What are they? Why does he move on without waiting for an answer?
What are the things the child sees on his way to the fair? Why does he lag behind?
How does Toto come to grandfather’s private zoo?
In what way is Iswaran an asset to Mahendra?
What are the two strange things the guru and his disciple find in the Kingdom of Fools?
Why do the courtiers call the prince ‘the Happy Prince’? Is he really happy? What does he see all around him?
What havoc has the super cyclone wreaked in the life of the people of Orissa?
What is Johnsy’s illness? What can cure her, the medicine or the willingness to live?
What does the author notice one Sunday afternoon? What is his mother’s reaction? What does she do?
Bill Bryson says, “I am, in short, easily confused.” What examples has he given to justify this?
Has Lushkoff become a beggar by circumstance or by choice?
“Toto was a pretty monkey.” In what sense is Toto pretty?
What does the swallow see when it flies over the city?
What reasons does he give to Sergei for his telling lies?
What is Johnsy’s illness? What can cure her, the medicine or the willingness to live?
How has Prashant, a teenager, been able to help the people of his village?
What are the precious things mentioned in the story? Why are they precious?
What havoc has the super cyclone wreaked in the life of the people of Orissa?
For whom does the prince send the sapphires and why?
How does Toto come to grandfather’s private zoo?
What actions of the schoolmates change the author’s understanding of life and people, and comfort him emotionally? How does his loneliness vanish and how does he start participating in life?
What is the significance of the title?