KSEEB Solutions for Class 7 English Prose Chapter 8 The Town by the Sea

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Karnataka State Syllabus Class 7 English Prose Chapter 8 The Town by the Sea

The Town by the Sea Questions and Answers, Summary, Notes

Reading, Speaking and Writing:

Work with your partner, the or the girl sitting next to you, and do this exercise. If your answer is “Not true”, say what is true. Substantiate all answers by reading to him/her the relevant sentences in the passage. Write down your answers.

Question 1.
The director woke up with the feeling that the building
a. would be flooded
b. would be burnt down
c. would collapse (Underline the phrase that complete the sentence)
Answer:
c. would collapse

Question 2.
The director cut off his wife’s call because he wanted to save himself first. (True/Not True)
Answer:
True

Question 3.
The director lost the chance of hearing his w’ife’s last words. (True/NotTrue)
Answer:
True

Question 4.
Car Nicobar Islands stand the highest among Nicobar Islands. (True/Not True)
Answer:
Not True

Question 5.
Port Blair was hit by the rising sea before Car Nicobar Islands. (True/Not True)
Answer:
Not True

Question 6.
The director heard from Malacca that his family had survived. (True/Not True)
Answer:
Not True

Question 7.
The director’s heart broke when he felt his son’s misery. (True/Not True)
Answer:
True

Question 8.
The poor thirteen-year-old’s misery was that he had not been able to save his mother and sister. (True/Not True)
Answer:
True

Question 9.
When did the director become really anxious?
Answer:
The water in the harbour had begun to rise very rapidly and the anchored ships seemed to be swirling. He ran to higher ground with others. Then it occured to the director that Nicobar islands are low lying islands and some like Car Nicobar islands stand no more than a few meters above the sea level at their highest point. This made him anxious.

Question 10.
What did the director’s son tell him?
Answer:
Director’s son told him, that the family was in the bedroom when the earthquake ’ started. The terrifying sound from the directions of the sea driven them in to the drawing-room. The boy kept running. When the wave hit the house dissolved into splinters and he was carried away as if on a wind. He held to a fixed thing and managed to keep his grip. He also told that his mother and sister just disappeared in the waves.

Question 11.
The mother and her sister had died. The boy feels he is to be blamed. This shows his sense of responsibility. Explain this point.
Answer:
The boy, his mother and sister reached the drawing-room. But the boy kept on running and he did not see whether his mother and sister were with him. He did not take them along with him when he went out. Later he felt guilty that if he had taken them also along with him, their lives too would have been saved.

Question 12.
The director wanted to mourn alone quietly (True/Not True)
Answer:
True

Question 13.
Why did the director choose his slides and not anything else?
Answer:
The director chooses his slides and not anything else so that he can drown his grief in his work.

Question 14.
Words seem futile..” says the author. Explain what he means.
Answer:
According to the author talking to someone who is under great pain will not help them to reduce their grief. The most important thing at that time is to act and intervene in the course of events. Time is a big healer and it will heal them and make them face reality bravely.

Question 15.
How did the author himself intervene and act in the course of the events?
Answer:
At the time of a particular pathetic situation, it seems nothing is of value other than to act and intervene in the course of events. Even thinking, reflecting, and writing about it seems trivial and wasteful. The later author came to know the director’s manner of choosing and he felt it was the most powerful defence of it he would ever see.

D. Word Formation:

Add a noun to each word you have made to make a noun phrase.

1. Russia – Russian – Russian gymnast
2. India – Indian – Indian singers
3. Africa – African – African jungle
4. Canada – Canadian – Canadian ship
5. Arabia – Arabian – Arabian dancer

E. Grammar:

The Suffix:
Suffixes help words to do different functions of Grammar.

Exercise:
Fill in the blanks to supply the correct forms of the word “surprise”.

1. Surprised at Finding the lone, hungry cub grandfather brought at home.
2. A tiger on the leash surprised people on the street.
3. It was a surprise for them to see a man with a tiger.
4. ” Don’t be surprised if he eats up Mahamoud,” said Grandmother.
5. Surprisingly the tiger didn’t harm the man.
6. Surprisedlv they all watched the man petting the tiger.

Exercise:
Write two more sentences beginning with

• Fortunately, it did not rain on our picnic day.
• Unfortunately, I lost my purse while boarding the bus.

The Town by the Sea Summary in English

On December 25, 2004, the director was in Port Blair en route to Delhi on an official visit. He had left his family in Malacca and 26th morning he was woken by the shaking of the earth. His mobile rang and he knew it was his wife. He cut the call and decided to call back when the shaking stopped. When he called her back, there was no response from her.

He saw the water in the harbour rising very rapidly and he ran to the higher ground with others. The director called the Govt, office in Car Nicobar. When this call was responded they told Malacca was very badly hit and there were some survivors. But there was no news about his family.

Director came to know in the afternoon that his 13-year-old was found clinging to the rafters of a church. He spoke to his son that night, his son told that their house dissolved and he was carried away by the wind. But his mother and sister just disappeared. The director’s heart broke when his son started crying.

He was able to get on a flight next day with the help of local administration. After going near his house he spent the day searching through the stones and found many possessions of his. But he could not find his wife and daughter.

The writer went with the director when he visited Malacca’s second time. There he saw the maximum possible damage done to life and property but nature was left unharmed. They visited the district library. They then went to the place where his house stood once. He could find the slides and other household things. But he looks only at the slides with him.

He explained that his house was made of wood and only the found atiars was concrete. His wife was an English teacher and had applied for transfers, which never came through. She could have achieved more if he had given her opportunity.

The writer was thinking about what he would have done as a husband, father, or human being in the director’s situation. What he would have kept off the past. This nobody knew how they would have reacted to this kind of situation. The time is a great healer and any amount of words or talking is not going to lessen someone’s pain and misery.

The Town by the Sea Summary in Kannada