Bihar Board Class 8 English Part III Chapter 15. The Outsider Text Book Questions and Answers
15. The Outsider
TEXTBOOK QUESTIONS AND THEIR ANSWERS
B. LET’S COMPEREHEND :
B.1. THINK AND TELL:
B1.1. Answer the following questions orally:
Q. 1. Who is the speaker?
Ans. The speaker is a handicapped person.
Q. 2. What kind of disability do you think he suffers from? How do you know?
Ans. He suffers from the incapability of his legs. I know this as he is compelled to move with the help of a wheelchair.
Q. 3. How does the speaker want the others to treat him?
Ans. The speaker wants others not to lock him out in their ignorance and requets to talk to him, touch him, include with him, hold his hand and to let him share the common life.
Q. 4. How do normal people behave with the speaker ?
Ans. Normal people expect the speaker to sit idle and not to make a sound: They want him just to smile and let the world go by with saintly patience without a sigh.
B.1.2 State whether the following statements are true or false :
1. The speaker is unable to move his limbs.
2. The speaker is mentally challenged.
3. He can perform simple tasks..
4. He desires to be treated equally by others.
Ans. 1. True, 2. False, 3. False, 4. True
B.2. THINK AND WRITE:
B.2.1. Tick the most appropriate answers and give reasons in favour of the options selected :
1. The speaker is expected to:
(a) complain
(b) share his grief with others
(c) maintain his silence
2. The speaker is eager to:
(a) have someone to guide him
(b) express his thoughts and feelings
(c) dispel his fear of immobility
3. The speaker is grieved on account of:
(a) the behaviour of others towards him
(b) his disability
(c) his inferiority complex
Ans. 1. (c) reason—others do not want him to share their life due to his disability.
2. (b) reason—He, too, has mind with sense and ideas like a human being.
3. (a) reason—Other people are ignorant of his feelings.
B.2.2. Answer the following questions:
Q. 1. What kind of a life does the speaker lead?
Ans. The speaker leads a life of handicapped person, silent, separate and ignored from the social life.
Q. 2. Why does the speaker say: “I have a mind and I’m still there”? Discuss his state of helplessness.
Ans. The speaker expresses his feeling that people ignore him as a person who has no mind and human feelings. But the fact is something different. The fact is that he, too, has his mind and want to do something like other people.
Q. 3. Why does he call the normal people ignorant ?
Ans. Normal people do not consider the problem of a handicapped persons with respect of human feelings. So, he calls them ignorant.
Q. 4. Are differently-abled people inferior to others? Give reasons for your answer.
Ans. Differently–abled people cannot be said to inferior to others as nature does not provide equal and similar ability to all.
C. WORD STUDY:
C.1. Fill in the blanks with suitable words from the box given below:
| free, special, ability, feelings, unable, person, physical, imagination, beloved |
I am differently abled ……… I don’t consider myself as ……… My ……… deformity has not affected my mental……… Although, I am …….. to move my body, my spirit remains …….. I express my ……… through songs. In my ……… I travel wherever I want to go. I’m also God’s …….. child.
Ans. person, special, physical, ability, unable, free, feelings, imagination, beloved.
D. RHYME TIME
Read the following lines :
Expected to sit and not make a sound I’m
handicapped and wheelchair bound.
The words ‘bound’ and ‘sound’ end with a similar sound: therefore they can be called rhyming words. Pick out as many rhyming words from the poem as you can and write them down in the space provided below.
Ans. Bound–sound, by–sigh, go–flow, others–bothers, ask–task, understand–hand, give–live.
E. LET’S TALK:
Discuss in class.
“Should differently abled persons be treated as equals”?
Students should also be encouraged to share their experiences (if any) of interacting with such persons.
Ans. Should Differently abled Persons Be Treated as Equals ?
Banti : Should differently abled persons be treated as equals ?
Jahir : No, differently abled persons cannot be treated as equals. Difference of their ability cannot set them in the same group, so they cannot be treated as equals.
Mokir : I feel differently abled persons can be treated as equals. The equality of opportunity will facilitate them to get chance for their welfare.
Banti : Yes, equality of opportunity may enable them to rise in future.
F. COMPOSITION:
Write a paragraph on the ‘Life of a Disabled Person’.
Your paragraph should include the following points :
* nature of disabilities persons suffer from
* what problems they face
* what support they need
* how people treat them
* responsibility of the society towards them
Ans. Life of a Disabled Person
A disabled person suffers from a disability of his body. There are many types of disability. Some persons is unable to see, someone is unable to move or do any work and someone is unable to hear. Such person is unable to behave like a normal man. So, common people do not pay their attention. towards him and ignore him as if he is not able to live with them. But, it is not proper. Such person should also be treated as a member of our society. He should not be dealt with separately. Such person also has a sense of human being, so he should be accompanied by every member of our society.
G. TRANSLATION:
Translate into English :
कल मेरे साथ एक अद्भुत घटना घटी। मैं दफ्तर से लौट रहा था । अपनी बिल्डिंग में पहुँचते ही अँधेरा हो गया । जेनरेटर और लिफ्ट भी काम नहीं कर रहे थे। मैं अंधेरे में किसी तरह से सीढ़ी तक पहुँचा । पहली सीढ़ी पर पैर रखने की कोशिश में मैं गिर पड़ा । तभी किसी ने मुझे हाथ पकड़कर उठाया । वह अनजान व्यक्ति मुझे सीढ़ियों से हाथ पकड़कर ऊपर ले गया । आठवीं मंजिल पर मेरे फ्लैट के दरवाजे पर पहुँचकर मैंने उसे बारम्बार धन्यवाद दिया। तभी बिजली वापस आ गई। मैंने अपने अनजान मित्र को देखा। वह अंधा था। एक अंधे ने मुझे राह दिखाई थी ।
Ans. Yesterday a strange incident occurred with me. I was returning from office. As I reached in my building, it became dark. Generator and lift, too, were not working. Any how I reached up to the stairs in the dark. I fell down when trying to step the first stair. At that moment someone lifted me holding my hand. Holding my hand, that unknown person took me up through the stairs. Reaching the gate of my flat on eighth floor. I thanked. him again and again. That very moment the light returned. I saw my unknown friend. He was blind. A blind man had showed me the way.
SOME OTHER IMPORTANT QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
Q . 1. What is the complaint of the handicapped person in the poem ‘The Outsider’?
Ans. The outsider complained that common people do not let him share theommon life. They ignore him and want to live separate of the common litc.
Q. 2. What type of life the handicapped person wants to share, which was given to him?
Ans. The handicapped person was given a social life at his birth, which is separated from him now. So, he requires to share again.
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