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Bholi - Notes
Bholi - Notes
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Bholi
By K A Abbas
Read the extracts carefully and answer the questions that follow:
1. For the sake of this kind woman, however, she decided to make an effort.
She had such a soothing voice; she would not laugh at her.
(a) Who was the kind woman?
(b) What idea do you form about this woman?
(c) Was her approach effective?
(d) How did Bholi’s teacher play an important role in changing Bholi’s life?
Answers
(a) The kind woman was Bholi’s teacher.
(b) The teacher was a soft and kind person, who knew that Bholi was feeling
awkward and afraid. She did her best to make Bholi feel comfortable
and confident.
(c) Yes, the teacher’s understanding and soothing words proved to be very
effective for Bholi.
(d) Bholi’s teacher made her confident and self reliant. As she grew up, she
had the courage to refuse to marry a lame and greedy man.
2. “What is the matter with you, you fool?” shouted Ramlal. “I am only
taking you to school.” Then he told his wife, “Let her wear some decent
clothes today, or else what will the teacher and the other school girls
think of us when they see her?”
(a) Who does ‘Ramlal’ call ‘you fool’?
(b) What did Ramlal want his wife to do?
(c) Why was Bholi scared to go to school?
(d) What made her feel that she was going to a better place than her home?
Answers
(a) Ramlal calls Bholi a fool.
(b) Ramlal wanted his wife to get Bholi ready for school, in decent clothes.
(c) Bholi had no idea what a school was. She was afraid that she was being
sent away just like their cow, Lakshmi. So she was scared.
(d) Bholi felt that she was going to a better place than her home as she was
given a bath, decent clothes to wear and her hair was also oiled and
combed.