Telangana SCERT 9th Class English Solutions Chapter 8B Father Returning Home

Telangana Board Class 9 English Father Returning Home Question and Answers

Board Telangana
Class 9th
Subject English
Unit 8 (8B)
Topic Solution

 

UNIT 8

B

READING

FATHER RETURNING HOME

 

I.) Answer the following questions

1.) Is the father comfortable on the train?

Answer: No, the father is not comfortable on the train.

 

2.) What does ‘the dress of the father’ indicate?

Answer: ’The dress of the father’ indicates that the father is tired and has traveled a lot in the busy city. It also states that the father works hard.

 

3.) ‘A word dropped from a long sentence’. What does it refer to?

Answer: It a metaphor used to compare the state of the father. Here it refers that just as a word is dropped from a long sentence, in the same way, the father is completely away from this busy materialistic life that is around him.

 

4.) How can you say that the father is in a hurry to go home?

Answer: He hurries and crosses the grey platform. Though his chappals are sticky with mud, he hurries to go back home and have his peaceful life.

 

5.) What might be the contemplation of the father in the toilet?

Answer: The father goes in the toilet to think deeply about man’s separation and detachment from this materialistic world. The world made by man, is so full of busy lives that no one cares about each other, and this makes man mechanical in his life. He loses meaning in such world, such thoughts make way into the father’s mind.

 

6.) What image do you get from the line, ‘A few droplets cling to the graying hairs on his wrists’?

Answer: When the father comes out of the toilet, the thoughts don’t leave him. The thoughts make him tremble and there is sweat on his forehead. The droplets are of the sweat that cling on his wrists which shows he is deep in his thoughts that are perhaps so sad that it makes him tremble.

 

7.) Why is the father thinking of nomads?

Answer: The father thinks about many things before sleeping. He thinks about the nomads(wanderer) who travels the world without their family. He thinks about those people because he feels lonely as there is no one to talk with, he is thinking about their plight.

Updated: December 7, 2021 — 4:26 pm

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