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NCERT Solutions Class 8, English, Honeydew, Prose, Chapter- 6, This is Jody’s Fawn.

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Answer 1

NCERT Solutions Class 8, English, Honeydew, Prose, Chapter- 6, This is Jody’s Fawn.

Comprehension Check

1. What had happened to Jody’s father?

Solution: Jody’s father had been bitten by a rattlesnake.

2. How did the doe save Penny’s life?

Solution: The doe’s liver and heart were used to draw out the poison from Penny.

3. Why does Jody want to bring the fawn home?

Solution:

Jody wanted to bring the fawn home because he felt that they had killed the doe for their purpose and the fawn had been orphaned for no fault of its own. He kept thinking about the hungry and scared fawn. He felt that it was their responsibility to take care of the fawn or else it would starve to death.

4. How does Jody know that the fawn is a male?

Solution:

Jody knew that the fawn was a male because the spots on its body were all in a line. His father had told him that on the body of a doe-fawn, the spots are in different directions.

Comprehension Check

1. Jody didn’t want Mill-wheel with him for two reasons. What were they?

Solution:

Jody did not want Mill-wheel with him for two reasons. First was that if fawn was dead then Jody didn’t want Mill-wheel to see the disappointment on his face. Second reason if the fawn was alive then Jody did not want to share his happiness with anybody else.

2. Why was Mill-wheel afraid to leave Jody alone?

Solution:

Mill-wheel did not want to leave Jody alone as he was afraid that Jody could lose his way or get bitten by a snake.

Comprehension Check

1. How did Jody bring the fawn back home?

Solution:

Jody picked up the fawn into his arms and proceeded to home. After some dis­tance, he kept the fawn down and took rest. Later on, the fawn followed him. Thus he brought the fawn back home.

2. Jody was filled with emotion after he found the fawn. Can you find at least three words or phrases which show how he felt?

Solution:

Jody was filled with emotion after he found the fawn. When he stroked its neck, the touch made him ‘delirious’. When he realised that it was his fawn now, he was ‘lightheaded with his joy’. When he finally brought the fawn into the house, Penny thought that “the boy’s eyes were as bright as the fawn’s”.

3. How did the deer drink milk from the gourd?

Solution:

Jody dipped his fingers in the milk. Then he left the fawn suck his fingers. He did so several times. Finally, the fawn drank off all the milk from the gourd.

4. Why didn’t the fawn follow Jody up the steps as he had thought it would?

Solution:

The deer is a wild animal. It is used to a life in the forest. When the fawn reached Jody's home, it did not follow Jody up the steps because of the strangeness of the house and the steps and everything. This is similar to its reaction to the milk in the gourd. It simply did not know what to do.

Working with the text

1. Why did Penny Baxter allow Jody to go find the fawn and raise it?

Solution:

Penny was convinced by Jody’s argument that it would be ungrateful if they left the fawn in the forest to starve. He realised that Jody was right.

2. What did Doc Wilson mean when he said, “Nothing in the world ever comes quite free”?

Solution:

Penny had killed the doe to save his life. Therefore, in regard for what the doe had done, its fawn needed to be taken care of and saved from starvation. It would be ungrateful to leave it alone. This was what Doc Wilson meant when he said that nothing in the world came for free.

3. How did Jody look after the fawn, after he accepted the responsibility for doing this?

Solution:

After Jody accepted the responsibility for looking after the fawn, he cared for it like its own mother would. When he first found it he reached out one hand and laid it on its soft neck. He then put both his arms around its body. While taking it home, he shielded its face from the sharp vines. He carried it in his arms most of the way even though he was tired. On reaching home, he gave it the milk that was meant for him. When he saw that the fawn did not drink the milk kept in the gourd, he fed it with his own hands.  Hence, one can say that Jody carried out his responsibility quite well.

4. How does Jody’s mother react when she hears that he is going to bring the fawn home? Why does she react in this way?

Solution:

Jody’s mother turned her nose when she heard that he was going to bring back the fawn. She gasped with surprise because she didn’t want to see an animal in her home.

Answer 2

Working with language

1. Look at these pairs of sentences.

Penny said to Jody, “Will you be back before dinner?”
Penny asked Jody if he would be back before dinner.
“How are you feeling, Pa?” asked Jody.
Jody asked his father how he was feeling.

Here are some questions in direct speech. Put them into reported speech.

(i) Penny said, “Do you really want it son?”

Solution: Penny asked his son if he really wanted the fawn.

(ii) Mill-wheel said, “Will he ride back with me?”

Solution: Mill-wheel enquired if Jody would ride back with him.

(iii) He said to Mill-wheel, “Do you think the fawn is still there?”

Solution: Jody asked Mill-wheel if he thought the fawn was still there.

(iv) He asked Mill-wheel, “Will you help me find him?”

Solution: He asked Mill-wheel if he would help him find the fawn.

(v) He said, “Was it up here that Pa got bitten by the snake?”

Solution: Mill-wheel wanted to know if that was the place where Pa had got bitten by the snake.

2. Look at these two sentences.

He tumbled backward.

It turned its head.

The first sentence has an intransitive verb, a verb without an object. The second sentence has a transitive verb. It has a direct object. We can ask: “What did it turn?” You can answer: “Its head. It turned its head.”

Say whether the verb in each sentence below transitive or intransitive. Ask yourself a ‘what’ question about the verb, as in the example above. (For some verbs, the object is a person, so ask the question ‘who’ instead of ‘what’).

(i) Jody then went to the kitchen.

Solution: Intransitive

(ii) The fawn wobbled after him

Solution: Intransitive

(iii) You found him.

Solution: Transitive

(iv) He picked it up.

Solution: Transitive

(v) He dipped his fingers in the milk.

Solution: Transitive

(vi) It bleated frantically and butted him.

Solution: Intransitive, Transitive

(vii) The fawn sucked  his fingers.

Solution: Transitive

(viii) He lowered his fingers slowly into the milk.

Solution: Transitive

(ix) It stamped its small hoofs impatiently.

Solution: Transitive

(x) He held his fingers below the level of the milk.

Solution: Transitive

(xi) The fawn followed him.

Solution: Transitive

(xii) He walked all day.

Solution: Intransitive

(xiii) He stroked its sides.

Solution: Transitive

(xiv) The fawn lifted its nose.

Solution: Transitive

(xv) Its legs hung limply.

Solution: Intransitive

3. Here are some words from the lesson. Working in groups, arrange them in the order in which they would appear in the dictionary. Write down some idioms and phrasal verbs connected to these words. Use the dictionary for more idioms and phrasal verbs.

close         draw        make          wonder         scrawny           parted   clearing        sweet         light         pick

Solution:

The words appear in the following sequence in the dictonary :

clearing,       close,         draw,      light,     make,      parted,      pick,      scrawny,    sweet,   wonder.

Idioms or phrasal verbs connected to the above words.

Clearing: clearing, campaign

Close: close shave, close up, close quarters

Draw: draw the curtain on/over, draw a blank

Light: in the light of, bring to light

Make: make the most of, make up

Part: part with, parted comparing

Pick: pick up, pick and choose

Scrawny: the scrawny neck

Sweet: have a sweet tooth, sweet seventeen, sweet tongued, sweet nothings

Wonder: wonder world, wonder load, nine day’s wonder, wonder about, do wonders.

Answer 3

Speaking

1. Do you think it is right to kill an animal to save a human life? Give reasons for your answer.

Solution:

Most of the animals are our friends. Dogs, horses, elephants, cows are a few such animals that serve us. But man has been killing codfish or the whales for oil. Tigers are killed for their skin and bones. This is not fair. But there is no harm if any of them are killed strictly to save human life, properly and agriculture.
However, killing animals is a crime. It is wrong to kill wild life for their hide or for pleasure.

2. Imagine you wake up one morning and find a tiny animal on your doorstep. You want to keep it as a pet but your parents are not too happy about it. How would you persuade them to let you keep it? Discuss it in groups and present your arguments to the class.

Solution:

The young ones of cats, dogs and some birds attract us as does a human child. When I was a child, I wanted to adopt a kitten or a puppy as pet. I found a good breed puppy at my doorstep one day. But it created a commotion in the house. My mother got irritated at the veiy presence of pets in the house. They bite and bark, enter the kitchen or sit on our beds and make things dirty. But I assured her that I would look after my puppy and train it. The loyal dog would act as security guard and a playmate. My parents finally relented and let me have the poor puppy as a pet.

Writing

1. Imagine you have a new pet that keeps you busy. Write a paragraph describing your pet, the things it does, and the way it makes you feel. Here are some words and phrases that you could use.

frisky, smart, disobedient, loyal, happy, enthusiastic,
companion, sharing, friend, rolls in mud, dirties the bed, naughty,
lively, playful, eats up food, hides the newspaper, drinks up milk,
runs away when called, floats on the water as if dead

Solution:

I have taken a kitten as my pet. It is female with silky fur and skin. She keeps me busy. My mother does not take interest in my pet. She curses the little one for doing mischief, for moving about in the house, for making the bed and floor dirty. The kitten enters the kitchen and drinks up milk. She is naughty and disobedient also. She is most unlike a dog which is loyal, obedient and strong. Still I like my pet because it is lively, playful and frisky.

2. Human life is dependent on nature (that’s why we call her Mother Nature). We take everything from nature to live our lives. Do we give back anything to nature?

(i) Write down some examples of the natural resources that we use.

Solution:

Man and nature are complementary to each other. Man for ages has been using forests, minerals and chemicals for his survival. Earth and nature are our lifelines. They help us directly or indirectly. Take for example the paper we print, our books and newspapers. They are products of trees. We get fruits, flowers and fodder from nature. We get water and air free from nature. It is unfortunate that we are over using the limited resources and are also polluting them.

Nature is our Mother. We must not use up anything to the extent that it is not restored naturally. By cutting down trees or killing whales we are, in a way, depriving our children of their share. Let us give back to nature for the benefits we get from it.

(ii) Write a paragraph expressing your point of view regarding our relationship with nature.

Solution:

Some of the natural resources that we use are water, coal, mineral oil, etc.

3. In This is Jody’s Fawn, Jody’s father uses a ‘home remedy’ for a snake bite. What should a person now do if he or she is bitten by a snake? Are all snakes poisonous? With the help of your teacher and others, find out answers to such questions. Then write a short paragraph on — What to do if a snake chooses to bite you.

Solution:

Snakes are the most dreaded of wild creatures. This is why we use sticks to kill them. There are many poisonous snakes. Green snakes or water snakes are not poisonous. Still we cannot be sure of it. So we don’t take a chance. We call in a snake charmer to draw the cobra out of the house. A snake-bite can kill the victim in a few minutes. But the victim can be saved if he gets the first aid in the form of blood-letting and anti-venom serum. The cure for snake bite is prepared front the snake’s poison.

In case I am bitten by a poisonous snake, the first thing I would do is to put a band tightly over the bitten part. Then I shall use a blade or knife to make a small cut on the bitten part, and press the poisonous blood out. Then I shall go to hospital for medical help. I shall not go to sleep until I feel better and safe.