આ MCQ મોડ્યુલ આના પર આધારિત છે: The Lost Child – Mulk Raj Anand
The Lost Child – Mulk Raj Anand
આ અંગ્રેજી સમજ મૂલ્યાંકન આના પર આધારિત હશે: The Lost Child – Mulk Raj Anand
Intermediate કઠિનતા સાથે સમજ અને યાદશક્તિ પર લક્ષ્ય.
આ CBSE અંગ્રેજી વ્યાકરણ મૂલ્યાંકન આના પર આધારિત હશે: The Lost Child – Mulk Raj Anand
મૂલ્યાંકનનું સ્વરૂપ:
• 10 રેન્ડમ વ્યાકરણ પ્રશ્નો (દરેક 1 ગુણ)
• પ્રશ્નના પ્રકાર: ખાલી જગ્યા ભરો, MCQ, ભૂલ ઓળખ, પરોક્ષ કથન, વાક્ય પૂર્ણ કરો
કુલ: 10 પ્રશ્નો, 10 ગુણ
આ અંગ્રેજી શબ્દભંડોળ મૂલ્યાંકન આના પર આધારિત હશે: The Lost Child – Mulk Raj Anand
Intermediate કઠિનતા સાથે શબ્દભંડોળ અને ઉપયોગ પર લક્ષ્ય.
Before You Read — The Lost Child
Unit 4 — Third Text (Learning Beyond the Text) | by Mulk Raj Anand
Childhood Memories: Work in pairs. Think of memories from your childhood that you remember clearly. List them and share with your classmates. What makes a childhood memory stick?
Predict the Story: The story is set at a spring festival. A child is lost in a crowd. What emotions do you think the story will explore? What do you think will happen?
Discuss: How do children's relationships with their parents influence their emotions and sense of security? Have you ever felt truly afraid or lost? What did you want most at that moment?
Connect to Unit Theme: Unit 4 is about "Caring for the Elderly" — yet this story features a child, not an elderly person. What common thread do you think connects them?
Plot Arc — Freytag's Pyramid
Click a point on the arc to explore that stage of the story.
The Lost Child — Mulk Raj Anand
1The festival of spring had arrived. From narrow alleys and shadowed lanes, a richly dressed crowd emerged — some on foot, some on horseback, others seated in bullock carts or bamboo palanquins. Running between his father's legs, one small boy brimmed over with energy and laughter. Imagery
2"Come, child, come!" his parents called, as he fell behind, magnetised by the toys displayed in roadside shops. He hurried to rejoin them, his feet obeying while his eyes lingered on the retreating toys. Even as he caught up, he could not prevent himself from murmuring, "I want that toy" — though he well knew the familiar, cold look of refusal in his parents' eyes. Imagery
3His father's glance was stern; his mother, softened by the festival spirit, took his finger and pointed ahead to the mustard fields — a pale golden sweep of blossom stretching across miles of level land, like melting gold. Simile Imagery
4A company of dragonflies whirred above on purple wings, chasing a solitary black bee or butterfly from flower to flower. The child reached up to catch one, but it evaded him — fluttering just beyond his fingers each time, until his mother's cautionary call drew him back to the path. He trotted happily beside his parents for a while, then fell behind again, distracted by insects and worms emerging to enjoy the sunshine. Imagery
5His parents waited under a grove, seated at the edge of a well. He ran to them through a shower of petals falling from young trees — then forgot them again when he heard doves cooing. Imagery "The dove! The dove!" he shouted, petals dropping from his hands. He circled the banyan tree in wild capers, and at last they gathered him up and took the winding path through the mustard fields towards the fair.
6As the village neared, many footpaths merged into one swelling crowd converging on the fair — and the child felt at once repelled and fascinated by the world he was entering. Imagery
7At the entrance, a sweetmeat seller hawked his wares — gulab-jamun, rasagulla, burfi, jalebi — arranged in a brilliant architecture of coloured sweets decorated with silver and gold leaf. The child's mouth watered for the burfi, his favourite. "I want that burfi," he murmured softly — but knowing his parents would call him greedy, he moved on without waiting for a refusal.
8A flower seller cried out garlands of gulmohur. The child was drawn; he whispered his desire — but knowing his parents would say the flowers were cheap, he moved on again without asking. Symbolism
9Rainbow balloons floated and tugged at a man's pole — red, yellow, green, purple — and the child was seized by an overwhelming desire to possess them all. But his parents would say he was too old for balloons. He walked on further.
10A snake charmer played a flute to a cobra whose neck arched like a swan's; the music stole through its invisible ears like the gentle ripple of a waterfall. Simile Imagery But his parents had forbidden such coarse music, and the child moved past.
11A roundabout spun in full delight. Men, women, and children shrieked and laughed in its whirling motion. The child watched intently — then made a bold request: "I want to go on the roundabout, please, Father, Mother."
12There was no reply. He turned to look. They were not there ahead of him. He looked to either side. Not there. He looked behind. No sign of them. A full, deep cry tore from within him and he ran, screaming in real terror: "Mother! Father!" Imagery Hot tears burned down his cheeks; his face was convulsed with fear. Hyperbole
13Panic-stricken, he ran this way and that, weeping "Mother! Father!" His yellow turban came undone and his clothes became muddy. He could see men and women through filmy, tear-blurred eyes — laughing, talking — but no sign of his parents. He ran to a temple, wormed through the crowd, was knocked and tossed by the pushing mass, and might have been trampled had he not screamed at the top of his voice. Imagery
14A kind man in the crowd stooped low, lifted the child with great difficulty, and steered him clear of the crush. "How did you get here, little one? Who are your parents?" he asked gently. The child wept harder than ever. "I want my mother, I want my father!"
15The man tried the roundabout. The child shook with sobs — "I want my mother, I want my father!" He tried the snake charmer. The child blocked his ears. He offered the balloons. The child turned his face away. He took him to the flower seller — the same garland the child had whispered for. The child pushed his nose away from the basket: "I want my mother, I want my father!" He brought him to the sweetmeat counter — the burfi the child had coveted. The child turned his face from the shop and only sobbed: "I want my mother, I want my father!" Irony Symbolism
Theme Web — The Lost Child & Unit 4 Theme
Click a theme to explore its presence in the story and across Unit 4.
Vocabulary from the Story
Literature CBQ — Extract-Based Questions
Extract 1
Extract 2
The crowd was so thick I nearly missed the small voice beneath the stamping feet. I lifted him and felt how his whole body shook. I offered him everything I could think of — the roundabout, the snake charmer, sweets. He refused them all with the same broken cry. I realised then, holding this weeping stranger, that what the child needed was not anything I could give. He needed only his parents — and I could not give him that. We kept looking.
Discussion and Comprehension
Auditory Imagery: "the music stole into its invisible ears like the gentle rippling of an invisible waterfall" — the snake charmer's flute music is given the quality of flowing water: continuous, soothing, and pervasive. The double "invisible" creates an effect of magical, mysterious sound.
Movement Imagery: "he ran from where he stood, crying in real fear…panic-stricken, he ran to one side first, then to the other, hither and thither in all directions" — the multiple, contradictory directions of movement capture the chaotic, purposeless running of a child in blind panic.
Grammar Workshop — Sensory Words and Classification
Connected to the rich sensory vocabulary of "The Lost Child" and the poem "I Cannot Remember My Mother"
Sensory words appeal to one of the five senses. In literature, they create vivid pictures and emotional connections.
| Category | From "The Lost Child" | From "I Cannot Remember My Mother" |
|---|---|---|
| Visual | glowing mustard fields, rainbow balloons, flushed face | blue of the distant sky |
| Auditory | boomed, shrieks, cooing of doves, a full deep cry | hum, tune hovering |
| Olfactory | fragrance of flowers at the fair entrance | smell of shiuli flowers, scent of temple service |
| Tactile | hot and fierce tears, muddy clothes | stillness of the gaze on the face |
Classify the Sensory Words
Classify the words from the box into Visual, Auditory, Olfactory, and Tactile categories.
Auditory: rustle, hiss, sizzle, deafening, squeaky, ear-splitting
Olfactory: aroma, stale, scent, pungent, stinky, fragrant
Tactile: sticky, rough, chilled, fluffy, smooth, slimy, hairy
Fill in the Blanks — Sarojini Naidu Passage
Complete the passage with suitable sensory words from the box: scarlet, shrill, sizzle, perfumes, flaming, scents, sweetness, essence, smooth
Writing Task — Article for School Magazine
Writing Task | Class 9 | Word Limit: 150–200 words | Format: Article
Your Name and Class: Below the title
Paragraph 1 (Introduction): Introduce the topic broadly — do not give details yet
Paragraph 2 (Body 1): How the elderly inspire — examples, facts, quotations
Paragraph 3 (Body 2): How they overcame challenges; their impact on you
Paragraph 4 (Conclusion): Final comment; leave the reader with an important thought
Tip: Use connecting phrases — "Moreover...", "Furthermore...", "In conclusion..."
Prompt: Based on the lessons learned from the elderly (from "Vitamin-M" and your own experience), write an article for your school magazine on the topic: 'Our Inspiring Elderly'.
Useful Expressions for Article Writing
By Priya Menon, Class IX-B
In a world obsessed with youth and speed, we rarely pause to acknowledge the quiet giants in our midst — the elderly men and women who carry decades of wisdom in their wrinkled hands.
Our grandparents and elderly neighbours are living libraries. They have witnessed independence movements, famines, festivals, and the entire arc of modern India. Asha Nehemiah's Grandpa in "Vitamin-M" remembers thousands of chess moves from history's greatest games — yet his family mistakes his occasional forgetfulness for helplessness. He ultimately proves sharper than anyone, delivering the story's final, brilliant punchline.
The elderly have overcome challenges we can barely imagine — poverty, partition, loss. Their resilience is not a relic of the past but a lesson for our present. My own grandmother survived the loss of her husband at forty and raised three children alone, never losing her warmth or her sense of humour.
As the story reminds us, it is sometimes the young who need "Vitamin-M" — the memory to remember who taught us to love, to persist, and to be generous. Let us not wait for them to be gone before we start listening.
Speaking Activity — Personal Caregiving Experience
Make a brief presentation (2–3 minutes) about your experience taking care of an older person. Use these prompts:
- "The person I had the privilege of taking care of was..."
- "I found myself in a caregiving role for..."
- "One significant realisation about myself during this experience was..."
- "Their challenges offered insights into the difficulties of ageing, such as..."
- "Caring for them deepened my understanding of the ageing process, particularly..."
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