WBBSE 9th Class English Solutions Chapter – 5 All Summer in a Day
WBBSE 9th Class English Solutions Chapter – 5 All Summer in a Day
West Bengal Board 9th Class English Solutions Chapter – 5 All Summer in a Day
WBBSE 9th Class English Solutions
Introduction
About the Author: Ray Douglas Bradbury (1920-2012) was one of the most celebrated American fiction writers of the twentieth century. He wrote science fiction, fantasy, horror and mystery stories. His most famous stories are ‘Fahrenheit 451’, ‘The Martian Chronicles’, “The Illustrated Man’ and ‘It Came from Outer Space’. Many of his works have been adapted into comic books, television shows and films.
This text is an excerpt from a science fiction which gives us an imaginary account of life on Venus. It touchingly narrates the keen expectations of the children of Venus who eagerly wait for the sun to appear after seven years, but only for an hour. The deviation of the text from what we know as scientific fact only adds to the imaginative element of the tale.
Ray Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois. He graduated from a Los Angeles high school in 1938. Although his formal education ended there, he became a ‘student of life’ selling newspapers on L.A. street corners from 1938 to 1942, spending his nights in the public library and his days as the typist. He became a full-time writer in 1943, and contributed numerous short stories to periodicals before publishing a collection of them, ‘Dark Carnival’, in 1947. He died in 2012.
SUMMARY AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE STORY
The prescribed story is a part of a science fiction. A science-fiction is basically an imaginary story of future, based on some scientific discovery. So such kinds of stories arouse our keenness to know more about scientific facts and discoveries and at the same time it satisfies our imagination.
This story deals with Venus, a planet in our solar system. ‘Venus’ is called the twin sister of the earth because of lots of similarities, in shape and size, between them. It is the second planet from the sun. Though Venus is without any sign of life, yet the existence of atmosphere has been traced there. Based on this scientific fact, here Bradbury starts his imaginary flight.
He imagines some people from earth have gone to Venus and formed a civilization there. The children are in school. It always. rains on the planet. Every seven years the sun appears there and that too for an hour. People normally live under the ground in some tunnel house. So, especially for the children, the sun is an object of the greatest wonder. When the sky gradually becomes clear after the rain stops, they wait eagerly and expectantly for the sun to appear. When the sun actually appears, their joy knows no bound. They laugh and cry, run and play and thus enjoy to their heart’s content. The warmth and light of the sun are magical to them. But after an hour when gradually the sun fades away and the rain starts again, they become disheartened. A little girl starts to cry. Again they have to wait for another seven years for the sun.
QUESTIONS ANSWERS
Tick (√) the correct answer from the given alternatives:
1. Men and women came from the Earth to Venus by –
A. aeroplanes
B. helicopters
C. rockets
D. satellites
2. The children learned that the sun was like a/an—
A. lemon
B. apple
C. orange
D. guava
3. The children had long forgotten the colour of the—
A. Earth
B. Sun
C. Venus
D. Moon
4. When the children felt warm in the sun they took off their —
A. jackets
B. sweaters
C. blazers
D. coats
5. The children came to know that the sun would come out after—
A. two years
B. six years
C. seven years
D. nine years
6. The tidal waves came over the –
A. forests
B. islands
C. countries
D. cities
7. In Venus thousands of forests were crushed because of —
A. wind
B. sunlight
C. rain
D. heat
8. Venus was covered by the great-
A. sky
B. storm
C. clouds
D. jungle
9. The children were in their —
A. school
B. home
C. rockets
D. playground
10. In the story, children are compared to—
A. rain
B. Venus
C. planets
D. roses
11. The windows were –
A. very big
B. small
C. medium
D. very small
12. To see the sun, the children were —
A. inattentive
B. unwilling
C. eager
D. spiteful
13. On Venus they would get sunlight for —
A. a day
B. an hour
C. two hours
D. a month
14. When the children peered out of the window to see the sun, their teacher was –
A. in the classroom
B. not in the classroom
C. trying to stop them
D. playing hide and seek with them
15. In Venus it had been raining for —
A. six months
B. six years
C. seven months
D. seven years
16. The children of Venus first saw the sun when they were of —
A. nine years
B. eight years
C. seven years
D. two years
17. The school children of Venus wrote small stories, essays and poems on —
A. the sun
B. rain
C. the moon
D. lemon
18. The children released from their spell, rushed out in the—
A. playtime
B. lunchtime
C. tiffintime
D. summer time
19. According to the children, the teacher must come —
A. cheerfully
B. not in a hurry
C. hurriedly
D. with slow steps
20. There were no motions or—
A. quake
B. roar
C. rain
D. waves
21. The world grounded to a/an —
A. area
B. standstill
C. planet
D. place
22. There were no motions or tremor and the world grounded to a standstill when –
A. a hurricane lost its sound
B. children stopped crying
C. the rain stopped
D. children went home
Answer the following questions
1. How did the heavy storms affect the islands of Venus?
Ans. Heavy storms caused tidal waves to crash against the islands.
2. What did the children write about the sun?
Ans. The children wrote small stories, essays or poems about the sun.
3. Where did the children play?
Ans. The children played in the echoing tunnels of the underground city.
4. How did the jungle of Venus look?
Ans. The jungle of Venus developed the colour of rubber, ash and ink.
5. Who were the children in the classroom on Venus?
Ans. The children were of the men and women who came by rockets from earth.
6. What had the children done all day before the day of sunrise?
Ans. All day the children had read about the sun in the class.
7. Where did the children learn about the sun?
Ans. The children learnt about the sun in the classroom on Venus.
8. For what were the children in the classroom becoming ready?
Ans. The children were becoming ready for the sunrise after seven long years.
9. When the sun rose for the last time in Venus how old were the children?
Ans. The children were then of two years only.
10. While running, why were the children turning their faces to the sky?
Ans. The children tried to feel the warmth of the sun on their cheeks.
11. When at last the sun came out, how was the look of it?
Ans. It was of flaming bronze in colour and very large in size.
12. “…the rain was slackening” – What was the indication?
Ans. The sun would rise after seven years for an hour on Venus.
13. What did the children sing at the time of playing in the tunnel?
Ans. At the time of playing in the tunnel, children sang of summer and the sun
14. Which game did the children play?
Ans. The children played hide and seek.
15. When the rain stopped, what was the feeling?
Ans. It felt as if a hurricane had lost its sound.
16. Why did the jungle of Venus have the colour of rubber, ash and ink?
Ans. The jungle had spent years without the sun. So, it lost its greenery.
17. Why did the girl wail, while the others were running?
Ans. The girl wailed because she found a large raindrop on her palm.
18. How did the children look at the sun ?
Ans. The children squinted at the sun until tears ran down their faces.
19. How did a boom of thunder affect the children of Venus?
Ans. The boom of thunder startled the children. They tumbled upon one another and ran.
20. Why were the children eager to see the sun?
Ans. The sun was rising after seven years. The children would experience it for the first time after becoming old enough to understand. So, they were eager to see it.
21. What did the children do immediately after the rain stopped?
Ans. Immediately after the rain stopped, the children put their hands to their ears. They stood apart. They slid the door back and felt the silence.
22. Why do you think that the children were feeling unhappy when it started raining again?
Ans. When it started to rain again the children felt unhappy because now the sun would vanish. It would appear again only for an hour after seven long years.
23. What happened to the forests on the planet?
Ans. On the planet, with continuous rain, thousand forests were crushed, and had grown up a thousand times to be crushed again.
24. How was the way of life on planet Venus forever ?
Ans. It was all rain and no sun in the life of Venus. Forests grew there to be crushed in rain again.
25. What were the children doing in the classroom before sunrise?
Ans. The children in the classroom were chattering. They were pressing to each other like roses. They peered out of the window to look at the hidden sun
26. What happened on Venus when the rain stopped?
Ans. When the rain stopped on Venus, there was no motion or tremor. It was only peace. It was as if, a hurricane had lost its sound.
27. What was the experience of the children when the sun rose seven years earlier?
Ans. The children were of two years when the sun rose seven years before for an hour. So they could recall nothing about the sun.
28. Briefly narrate the appearance of the sun.
Ans. Absolute silence was prevailing everywhere on Venus. Then the sun appeared with its blaze and warmth.
29. What did the children do in the jungle?
Ans. The children lay out. laughing on the jungle mattress. They ran among the trees. They slipped and fell. They pushed each other and played hide and seek.
30. How was the season of summer in Venus?
Ans. Summer would visit Venus every seven years. It would last there for an hour only. It would make the planet a blessed sea of no sound.
31. Why did the children put their hands to their ears ?
Ans. When the rain stopped on Venus, absolute silence prevailed there. So to avoid the uneasy feeling, the children put their hands to their ears.
32. How long did the children stand at the doorway to the underground houses and why?
Ans. The children stood at the doorway to the underground houses until it was raining hard. They wanted to enjoy the brief spell of summer to the fullest.
33. How did the absence of the sun affect the jungle in Venus?
Ans. In Venus, the jungle lost its green due to the long absence of the sun. So, it developed the dull colour of rubber, ash and ink.
Complete the following sentences with information from the text:
1. Tidal waves come over the islands because of ………………………..
Ans. Tidal waves come over the islands because of heavy storms.
2. People coming from earth set up……………………….
Ans. People coming from earth set up a civilization on planet Venus.
3. The children in the classroom are compared to………………………
Ans. The children in the classroom are compared to roses.
4. The age of the children was two years when…………………….
Ans. The age of the children was two years when the sun came out last time.
5. Children learned in the classroom that the sun was………………………
Ans. Children learned in the classroom that the sun was like a lemon and too hot.
6. It seemed that a hurricane had lost its sound when……………………………
Ans. It seemed that a hurricane had lost its sound when the rain stopped.
7. One would feel that the ears had been stuffed because ……………………..
Ans. One would feel that the ears had been stuffed because the silence was immense.
8. When the rain stopped, the silence was…………………………
Ans. When the rain stopped, the silence was so immense that one would feel as if the ears had been stuffed.
9. Children lay in the sunshine laughing …………………………….
Ans. Children lay in the sunshine laughing on the jungle mattress. [শিশুরা হাসতে হাসতে জঙ্গলের ঘাসের গদির ওপর শুয়ে পড়ল।]
10. The children were running and turning up their faces to the sky to……………………..
Ans. The children were running and turning up their faces to the sky to feel the warm sun on their cheeks.
11. As they looked at the sun with difficulty…………………………..
Ans. As they looked at the sun with difficulty tears ran down their faces.
12: In the centre of the girl’s palm was………………………..
Ans. In the centre of the girl’s palm was a single, large raindrop.
13. A few cold drops fell on their noses and their cheeks …………………..
Ans. A few cold drops fell on their noses and their cheeks when the sun faded behind a cloud of mist.
State True or False. Write T’ for True and ‘F’ for False
1. The children of Venus had to wait for the sun for seven years.
Ans. T
2. The children of Venus are now ten years old.
Ans. F
3. The children came to Venus from Earth.
Ans. F
4. The children had no idea about the colour of the sun.
Ans. F
5. In the poem written by the children, the sun was compared to a flower.
Ans. T
6. The teacher allowed the children to go out for an hour only.
Ans. T
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