What makes Jack feel caught in an uglymiddle position?
Jack feels caught himself in an ugly middle position as she wanted to make her daughter sleep and also wanted to take care of her pregnant wife as she was painting the living room. But the task of making her daughter sleep was quite fatiguing as she wanted lots of clarification, pointing errors and suggesting alternatives. He was conscious of his duties, both as a father and as a husband. Therefore he was stuck into two difficult situations.
Why is an adult’s perspective on life different from that of a child’s?
What is the moral issue that the story raises?
What is your stance regarding the two endings to the Roger Skunk story?
How does Jo want the story to end and why?
What do you think was Jo’s problem?
Who is Jo? How does she respond to her father’s story-telling?
What possible plot line could the story continue with?
Why does Jack insist that it was the wizard that was hit and not the mother?
Who is the Tiger King? Why does he get that name?
Who was Dr Sadao? Where was his house?
The two accounts that you read above are based in two distant cultures. What is the commonality of theme found in both of them?
What does the third level refers to?
‘The world’s geological history is trapped in Antarctica.’ How is the study of this region useful to us?
What kind of a person was Evans?
It may take a long time for oppression to be resisted, but the seeds of rebellion are sowed early in life. Do you agree that injustice in any form cannot escape being noticed even by children?
What are Geoff Green’s reasons for including high school students in the Students on Ice expedition?
What were the precautions taken for the smooth conduct of the examination?
Bama’s experience is that of a victim of the caste system. What kind of discrimination does Zitkala-Sa’s experience depict? What are their responses to their respective situations?
What will the Maharaja do to find the required number of tigers to kill?
Philately helps keep the past alive. Discuss other ways in which this is done. What do you think of the human tendency to constantly move between the past, the present and the future?
You have read ‘Adventure’ by Jayant Narlikar in Hornbill Class XI. Compare the interweaving of fantasy and reality in the two stories.
‘The modern world is full of insecurity, fear, war, worry and stress.’ What are the ways in which we attempt to overcome them?
Dr Sadao was compelled by his duty as a doctor to help the enemy soldier. What made Hana, his wife, sympathetic to him in the face of open defiance from the domestic staff?
What does the third level refers to?
What kind of a person was Evans?
What will now happen to the astrologer? Do you think the prophecy was indisputably disproved?
Who was Dr Sadao? Where was his house?
Do you see an intersection of time and space in the story?