Going Places by A. R. Barton/ RBSE/ Question-Answers

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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