Chapter
– 10
Going Places A.
R. Barton
Short Question Answers
Q. 1. What is Sophie’s dream about her future? Is her dream
realistic?
Answer: Sophie’s dream was to open a boutique. Sophie
thought of becoming a manager to get enough money to open a boutique. She also
wanted to be a fashion designer and an actor. Sophie’s dream is not realistic
as she belongs to a poor family with no resources to attain such higher goals.
Q. 2. Who was little Derek? What did he say about Sophie?
Answer: Little Derek was Sophie’s brother. He said that
Sophie thought that money grows on the trees.
Q. 3. Why did Jansie discourage Sophie from entertaining
such dreams?
Answer. Jansie discouraged Sophie from entertaining such
dreams because she knew the financial condition of Sophie well. She knew that
they were both earmarked for biscuit factories. With meagre resources, it would
be near impossible for her to fulfil her dreams.
Q. 4. Why was Sophie
jealous of Geoff’s silence?
Answer. Geoff was Sophie’s elder brother. She was jealous of
him because he spoke very little and didn’t share anything with her. When he
wasn’t speaking, it was as if he was away somewhere in the world, in those
places where she had never been.
Q. 5: How did Sophie include her brother Geoff in her
fantasy of the future?
Answer. Geoff was an apprentice mechanic travelling to the far
side of the city every morning. Sophie thought that Geoff would take her along
with him to city. She would ride behind Geoff and people would applaud and rise
to greet them.
Q. 6. Why did Sophie call Jansie nosey?
Answer: Sophie calls Jansie nosey because she wanted to know
about the meeting between Sophie and Danny Casey. Jansie was eager to know
everything about it.
Q. 7. Why was Sophie glad seeing the bicycle of her father
standing against the pub wall?
Answer: Sophie was returning after the long wait for Danny
Casey near the canal. She was happy to see her father’s bicycle near the wall
of the pub because her father would not be there when Sophie came home.
Q. 8. Which was the only occasion when Sophie got to see
Danny Casey I person?
Answer: There happened no personal meeting between Sophie
and Danny Casey. Sophie saw him only on the ground while watching United’s
match with her brothers and father.
Long Question Answers
Q. 9. Sophie and Jansie were classmates and friends. What
were the differences between them that showed up in the story?
Answer. Sophie and Jansie were classmates and friends. But
there were many differences between them. Sophie was lost in her strange dreams
and fantasies but Jansie was realistic. Sophie dreamt that after leaving school
she would open a fashionable clothing store in the city. She thought of
becoming a manager to save that much money. She also thought of becoming an
actress as she would have lots of money in that way. Jansie, on the other hand,
knew the reality very well. She never indulged herself in any impractical idea.
Instead of pursuing any wild fantasy, she accepted the reality and wished that
Sophie could also understand that. Being Sophie’s classmate and friend She
cared for her. Sophie would dream of Danny Casey and picture her meeting with
him but Jansie had no such dreams.
Q. 10. Sophie’s real world is different from her fantasies.
Explain.
Answer: Yes, Sophie’s real world
is different from her fictional world. Sophie is not so wealthy as to match her
dreams. She is a teenager and is always lost in dreams. She dreams of opening a
boutique after leaving school. She plans to become a manager to collect enough
money to open a boutique. She also dreams of becoming like Mary Quant, a
fashion designer. In her imagination, sometimes she thought of becoming an
actress as she would get a lot of money that way. But in reality, her economic
condition was not very good. They didn’t have a good house. Her elder brother
was an apprentice mechanic. Her father used a bicycle. The only future option
available to them was perhaps the biscuit factory. She also fancied about Danny
Casey but he was far beyond her reach. It is quite easy to understand that
coming from a poor family, her dreams were a far cry for her.
Q. 11. What did Sophie tell her brother Geoff about Danny
Casey?
Answer. Sophie told her brother Geoff that she met Danny
Casey in the arcade. She was looking at the clothes in Royce’s window when
somebody came and stood by her and surprisingly, it was Danny Casey. When Geoff
asked how he looked like, she said that he had green and gentle eyes, and he
was not so tall as one would think of him. She then thought of telling about
his teeth but then she decided against it. She said that she asked an autograph for
little Derek but neither of them had any paper or pen and that he would give
her an autograph if she cared to meet him the next day. She wished Geoff to
believe all that.
Q. 12. Comment on the aptness of the title ‘Going Places’.
Answer: The title “Going Places” is quite apt for this story
as it incorporates going places both physically and mentally. The story begins
with Sophie’s returning home from school with her friend Jansie and along with
that it describes her imagination travelling far and wide, from opening up a
boutique to becoming an actress. At home, she imagines herself riding behind
her brother on his bike and city people applauding and greeting them. She also
pictures her meeting with Danny Casey at Royce’s and an autograph episode. She cooks up a story about Danny going to buy
a shop. The story also involves their visit to watch United’s match on
Saturdays. Later she fantasizes about dating Danny. She moves across a canal
where she used to play and sitting on a bench there, she fancies Danny coming
there. Thus the story takes us from place to place in time and space.
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