NAME : AARUSH GUPTA

CLASS/SEC: IX D
ROLL NO.: 1

CHAPTER : The Lost child - Mulk Raj Anand

Q2 In the fair he wants many things. What are they? Why does he move on without
waiting for an answer?

Ans The child wants many things in the fair. He wants to have toys, different sweets,
garland, balloons of different colours and has a keen desire to enjoy the roundabout.
He moves on without waiting for an answer because whenever he stops to see
things, his parents give him a cautionary call, “come, child, come!”

Q4 Why does the lost child lose interest in the things that he had wanted earlier?

Ans The lost child loses interest in the things he had wanted earlier because he got
lost in the fair. He is panic-stricken for being lost. Now he first wants his parents. He
is afraid and feels unsafe.

Q3 “a child longs for toys, sweets and other things but not at the cost of his
parents.”comment

Ans When the child realised that he had been separated from his parents, he started crying.
Tears rolled down his cheeks. His face was full of fear. He panicked and ran here and there.
His yellow turban got untied. His clothes became muddy. He ran towards the shrine in
search of his parents. There was a thick crowd. Before he could be trampled under their feet,
a kind-hearted person picked him up in his arms. He asked him how he got there and where
his parents were. The child wept more bitterly and cried for his parents.