Chapter 22
The World in my Home
1) The World in my Home
2) In your home, who settles such quarrels?
3) Talk about an interesting incident at home when there was a quarrel over such things.
4) Have you ever seen people quarrelling over something elsewhere? What?
5) Does this kind of thing happen in your house or in any of your friend’s house? What do you think about this?
6) Think – what would happen if girls had to follow rules made for boys and boys had to follow rules made for girls
7) If you were to write a different ending for this story, how will you end it?
8) Is there anyone in your family who is like Pilloo Aunty? Who?
9) What would the children have thought if Pilloo Aunty had paid less money to the kulfi-seller? What do you think about this?
10) What do you think Akshay will do?
11) Why was Akshay confused?
12) Why do you think Akshay’s grandmother warned him not to drink even water in Anil’s house?
13) Do you know of anybody who thinks like Akshay’s grandmother?
14) Do you agree with Akshay’s grandmother?
15) What do you think Akshay should do?
16) If you were in Dhondu’s place what would you do?
17) Has it ever happened with you that you wanted to do something but the elders in the family did not allow you?
18) Who takes important decisions in your family? What do you feel about this?
19) How would you like if only one person made all the decisions for your family?
20) Have you ever disliked anybody’s touch? Whose touch did you dislike?
21) If you were in Ritu’s place, what would you do?
22) What else can be done when such things happen? Discuss.
23) Everybody’s touch is not the same. Ritu did not like it when Meena’s uncle held her hand, but she liked to hold Meena’s hand. Why do you think there was this difference?
Type by- Gauri Bora
