Going places class 12 chapter 8 Explanation Question and Answer

Going Places class 12 chapter 8 Book English Flamingo Explanation Question and Answers

Going places by

(A.R Barton)

Going Places class 12
Table of content
  1. keywords
  2. theme
  3. points to Remember
  4. sophie’s dad
  5. sophie’s Brother Geoff
  6. sophie, lives in a word of her own fantasy
  7. About the author
  8. Explanations
  9. word-meanings
  10. Questions and Answers

1.Going Places class 12 Keywords

  1. Boutique–a small shop that sells clothes and expensive gifts
  2. earmarked–already reserved
  3. grimy–fearful
  4. Delicate–very soft
  5. Aggressively–moved along
  6. shimmer–plicker
  7. Exofic–exciting
  8. Muffled–silenced

2.Going Places class 12 theme

  1. Addescence–fantasizing
  2. Hero worship
  3. No use of building castles in the Air.

3.Going Places class 12 Points to Remember

  1. sophie’s ambition and unrealistic dreams
  2. wants to start a boutique
  3. wants to earn money by becoming a manager, an actress or even a fashion designer
  4. she comes from a weak socio-economic background
  5. her friend jansie-simply wants sophie to be happy,
  6. jansie-realistic
  7. can’t keep information or secrets to herself,

4.Sophie’s Dad

  1. is strong , sweaty and hardworking
  2. loves to watch football matches
  3. does not believe in sophie’s imaginary stories

5.Going Places class 12 Sophie’s Bother-Geoff

  1. is an apprentice mechanic
  2. speaks less
  3. sophie’s trusts him, shares her secrets with him

6.Going Places class 12 Sophie lives in a world of her own fantasy

  1. Sophie is fond of hero worshipping and fantizing
  2. Sophie’s hero is an Irish player, Danny Casey
  3. Dreams of meeting him
  4. obsessed about meeting him, makes up stories about her meeting with him
  5. starts believing her imagination as real
  6. nobody believes, her, feels disappointed
  7. still believes that she has met Danny casey.

7.Going Places class 12 About the author’

A.R Barton is a modern writer, who lives Zurich and writes in english in the story going places, Barton explores the theme of adolescent fantasising and hero worship.

8.Going Places class 12 Explanations.

when I leave sophie said coming home from school, I m going to have a boutique jansie, linking arms with her along the street looked doubtful Takes money, soaf something like that I find it sophie said staring the street take you a long time to save that much”

well I be a manager then –yes of course-to be begin with Till I ve got enough but anyway I know just how it’s all going to look”they wouldn’t make you manager straight off, soaf” I be like mary quant” sophie said I be a natural they II see if from the start. I have the most amazing shop this city’s ever seen”

Jansie, knowing they were both earmarked for the biscuit factory, became melancholy she wished sophie wouldn’t say these things, when they reached sophie’s street jansie said it’s only a few months away now soaf, you really should be sensible they don’t pay well for shop work you know that you dad would never allow it,

or an actress, now there’s real money in that yes and I could maybe have the boutique on the side actresses don’t work full time do they? anyway that or a fashion designer you know –something a bit sophisticated ” and she returned in through the open street door leaving jansie standing in the rain

if ever I come into money I buy a boutique” huh-if you ever come into money if you ever come into money you II buy us a blessed decent house to live in thank you very much” sophie’s father was scooping shepherd ‘s pie into his mouth as hard as he could go his plump face still grimy and sweat–marked from the day. she thinks money grows on trees, don’t she dad? said little derek, hanging on the back of his father’s chair

Their mother sighed. sophie watched her back stooped over the sink and wondered at the incongruity of the delicate bow which fastened her apron strings, the delicate -seeming bow the crooked back the evening had already blacked in the windows and the small room was steamy from the stove and cluttered with the heavy-breathing man in his vest at the table and the dirty washing piled up in the corner, sophie felt a tightening in her throat. she went to look for her brother geoff.

he was kneeling on the floor in the next room tinkering with a part of his motorcycle over some newspapers spread on the carpet, he was three years out of school, an apprentice mechanic travelling to his work each day to the far side of the city, he was almost grown up now and she suspected areas of his life about which she knew nothing about which he never spoken he said little at all ever voluntarily words had to be prized out of him like stones out of the ground and she was jealous of his silence when he wasn’t speaking it was away somewhere out there in the world in those places she had never been whether they were only the outlying district of the city or places beyond in the surrounding country who–knew? they attained a special fascination simply because they were unknown to her and remained out of her reach.

Perhaps there were also people exotic, interesting people of whom he never spoke –it was possible though he was quite and didn’t make new friends easily. she longed to know them she wished she could be admitted more deeply into her brother’s affections and that someday he might take her with him though their father forbade it and geoff had never expressed an opinion she knew he though her too young. and she was impatient she was conscious of a vast world out there waiting for her and she knew instinctively that she would feel as at home there as in the city which had always been her home it. expectantly awaited her arrival she saw herself riding there behind Geoff . he wore new shining black leather and she a yellow dress with a kind of cape that flew out behind , there was the sound of applause as the world rose to greet them ,

he sat frowning at the oily component he cradled in his hands, as though it were a small dump animal and he was willing it to speak .

  • I ” met Danny Casey” sophie said
  • he looked around abruptly where?”
  • In the arcade –funnily enough”
  • it’s never true”, I did too,
  • You told Dad?’

she shook her head, chastened at his unawareness that he was always the first to share her secrets, I don’t believe it. there I was looking at the clothes in Royce’s window when someone came and stood beside me and I looked around and who should it be but Danny casey

  • All right, what does he look like?”
  • oh come on you, know what he looks like”
  • close to I mean”

well–he has green eyes, Gentle eyes, and he’s not so tall as you ‘d think –” she wondered if she should say about his teeth, but decided against it, their father had washed when he came in and his face and arms were shiny and pink and he smelled of soap, he switched on the television tossed one of little Derek’r shoes from his chair onto the sofa and sat down with a grunt .

sophie met Danny casey Geoff said ” sophie wriggled where she was siting at the table, her father turned his head on his thick neck to look at her his expression was one of disdain. , it’s true Geoff said

I once knew a man who had known tom finney,” his father said reverently to the television” but that was a long time ago” You told us”Geoff said casey might be that good some day” better than that even. he’s the best

if he keeps his head on his shoulders if they look after him properly. a lot of distractions for a youngster in the game these days,

  • he II be all right. he ‘s with the best team in the country ‘
  • he’s very young yet,
  • he’s older than I am
  • Too young really for the first team “
  • you can’t argue with that sort of ability “
  • he’s going to buy a shop “sophie said from the table
  • her father grimaced where d you hear that ?”
  • he told me so”

he muttered something inaudible and dragged himself round in his chair, this another of your wild stories?” she met him in the arcade “Geoff said and told him how it had been one of these days you’re going to talk yourself into a load of trouble,” her father said aggresively.

the table lamp cast an amber glow across her brother’s bedroom wall, and across the large poster of united’s first team squad and the row coloured photographs beneath, three of them of the young Irish prodigy, Casey.

  • Promise you II tell no–one? sophie said
  • Nothing to tell is there ?
  • Promise, Geoff-dad’d murder me “
  • only if he thought it was true”
  • please Geoff”
  • Christ, sophie, you re still at school, casey must have strings of girls,
  • No he doesn’t
  • how could you know that?’ he jeered
  • he told me that ‘s how ‘
  • as if anyone would tell a girl something like that”
  • yes he did he isn’t like that he’s quiet”
  • Not as quiet as all that —apparently’
  • it was nothing like that Geoff it was me spoke first when I saw

who it was I said excuse me, but aren’t you Danny casey?” and he looked sort of surprised and he said “yes that’s right and I knew it must be him because he had the accent, you know like when they interviewed him on the television so I asked him for an autograph for little derek, but neither of us had any paper or a pen, so then we just talked a bit about the clothes in Royce;s window he seemed lonely, after all it;s a long way from the west of Ireland, and then , just as he was going, he said if I would care to meet him next week he would give me an autograph then , of course, I said I would”

As if he’s ever show up’ you do believe me now, don’t you”he dragged his jacket, which was shiny and shapeless from the back of the chair and pushed his arms into, it she wished he paid more attention to his appearance, wished he cared more about clothes, he was tall with a strong dark face, handsome, she thought, it’s she unlikeliest thing I ever heard” he said

on saturday they made their weekly pilgrimage to watch united sophie and her father and little derek went down near the goal–Geoff,as always, went with his mates higher up, united won two -nil and casey drove in the second goal ,a blend of Innocence and Irish genius going round the two big defenders on the edge of the panlty area, with her father screaming for him to pass, and beating the hesitant goalkeeper from a dozen yerds, sophie glowed with pride, afterwards Geoff was ecstatic,

  • I” wish he was an Englishman” someone said on the bus
  • Ireland” II win the world cup” little Derek told his mother when sophie brought him home, her father was gone to the pub to celebrate,
  • what’s this you’ ve been telling?’ Jansie said, next week
  • about what?”
  • Your Geoff told our Frank you Danny casey”.
  • this wasn’t an inquisition just jansie being nosey, but sophie was startled on that”
  • Jansie frowned, sensing she was covering yes” –that” well-yes, I did”
  • you never did?” jansie exclaimed ,

sophie glared at the ground, damn that Geoff, this was Geoff thing not a jansie thing it was meant to be something special just between them, something secret it wasn’t jansie knid of thing at all, tell gawky jansie something like that and whole neighbourhood would get to know it damn that Geoff was nothing sacred,?

it’s a secret–meant to be “I II keep a secret, soaf, you know that” I wasn;t to tell anyone. there II be a right old row if my dad gets to hear about it” jansie blinked A” row? I d have thought he ‘d be chuffied as anything” she realised then that jansie didn’t know about the date bit–Geoff hadn’t told about that, she breathed more easily, so Geoff hadn’t let her down after all, he believe in her after all after all some things might be sacred ,

it was just a little thing really. I asked him for an autograph, but we hadn’t any paper or a pen so it was no good, how much had Geoff said ? Jesus, I wish I d have been there” of course my dad didn;t want to believe it you know what a misery he is . but the last thing I need is queucs of people round our house asking him, what’s all this about danny casey?” he’ d murder me and you know how my mum gets when there ‘s a row “

jansie said, hushed, you can trust me, soaf you know that” after dark she walked by the canal, along a shelter path lighted only by the large of the lamps from the wharf across the water, and the unceasing drone of the city was muffled and distant, it was a place she had often played in when she was a child there was a wooden bench beneath a solitary elm where lovers sometimes came, she sat down to wait it was the perfect place, she had always thought so, for a meeting of this kind, for those who wished not to be observed, she knew he would approve.

for some while, waiting she imagined his coming, she watched along the canal, seeing him come out of the shadows, imagining her own consequent excitement. not until some time had elapsed did she begin balancing against this the idea of his not coming. here i sit she said to herself, washing danny would come, wishing he would come and sensing the passing I feel the pangs of doubt stirring inside me I watch for him but still there is no sign of him I remember Geoff saying he would never come and how none of them believed me when I told them I wonder what will I do what can I tell them now if he doesn;t come? but we know how it was danny and me –this’s the main thing. how can you help what people choose to believe? but all the same it makes me despondent, this knowing I never be able to show them they re wrong to doubt me,

she waited, measuring in this way the changes taking place in her, Resignation was no sudden thing. Now I have become sad , she thought and it is hard burden to carry, this sadness sitting here waiting and knowing he will not come I can see the future and how I will have to live with this burden they of course will doubt me,as they always doubted me, but I will have to hold up my head remembering how it was already I envisage the slow walk home, and Geoff’s disappointed face when I tell him” he didn’t come that danny” and then he “II fly out and slam the door. but we know how it was I shall tell myself” Danny and me “it is a hard thing this sadness.

she climbed the crumbling steps to the street. outside the pub she passed her father’s bicycle propped against the wall,and glad he would not be there when she got home,

  • Excuse me” but aren’t you danny casey?”
  • coming through the arcade she pictured him again outside Rouce’s
  • he turns, reddening slightly, yes” that’s right”
  • I watch you every week with my dad and my brothers, we think you”re great
  • Oh,well now–that’s very nice
  • I wonder–would you mind signing an autograph?”

his eyes are on the same level as your won. his nose is freckled and turn upwards slightly, and when he smiles he does so shyly, exposing teeth with gaps between his eyes are green. and when he looks straight at you they seem to shimmer. they seem gentle, almost afraid like a gazelie’s and you look away, you let his eyes run over you a little and then you come back to find them, slightly breathless.

9.Going Places class 12 word-Meanings:

  1. Apparently–प्रकट रूप से
  2. unlikeliest–जिसकी सम्भावना न हो
  3. Chuffed–अति प्रसन्नः
  4. Ghost past–भूत की भांति आगे जाना
  5. stooped—झुकी हुई
  6. suspected–संदेहे करना
  7. Fascination–आकर्षक
  8. Disdain–तिरस्कार
  9. Dragged–खींचा
  10. Jeered–ताना मारा

10.Going Places class 12 Questions and answers

1.Question what were the future plans of sophie?

Answer: sophie lives in a world of dreams, she aspired to have a boutique after leaving school. she told her friend jansie that in order to save money, she would work as a manager. she also toyed with the idea of working as an actress.

2.Question how did sophie react when Geoff told her father that she had met Danny casey?

Answer: sophie had shared her secret of meeting danny casey with her brother Geoff, when Geoff told his father about this sophie wriggled because of the possible contempt of his father. she was afraid that her father would never believe about it.

3.Question: did sophie’s father believe her story?

Answer: No, sophie’s father did not believe her story when Geoff told him about the meeting , his expression was one of disdain. he also felt that she would take herself into a load of trouble and said that she Geoff should not believe her even though he would like to.

4.Question: why did sophie not want jansie to know about her story with Danny.

Answer: sophie did not want that jansie should know about her story with Danny because she was afraid that jansie would tell about the story to the whole neighbourhood. she feared that her father might get to hear it and would create a row.

5.Question: How does sophie include her brother Geoff in her fantasy of her future?

Answer; she does not know where her brother Geoff.that unknown world and people fascinates her. she wishes she-could be closer to-Geoff she hopes that someday would take her there. she imagines herself in a world rising to greet them with an, applause.

6.Question; how would you describe the character and temperament of sophie’s father?

Answer: sohpie’s father was a hard working simply man. he was an experienced man of the world. he did not believe a bit what sophie said about her having met danny casey he knew sophie was in the habit of fantasying he took her account of her meeting casey, as another of her wild stories he was a bit harsh too and sophie did not want to tell this to him he scolded her for telling wild stories he liked watching TV and football matches. he admired danny but he thought he was too young he could succumb to temptations. he needed looking after .

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