NCERT Solutions for Class 8 English Honeydew Chapter 6 My Childhood
NCERT Solutions for Class 8 English Honeydew Chapter 6 My Childhood are provided below. These solutions contain answers to all the textbook questions. All the questions are solved by experts with a detailed explanation that help students to complete their assignments and homework. NCERT Solutions for Class 8 English Honeydew Chapter 6 My Childhood are prepared as per the latest CBSE syllabus and curriculum. Students of Class 8th can study the answers provided here to score well in their school exams.
My Childhood Class 8 NCERT Questions and Answers
Textbook Questions
Comprehension Check (Page 89)
Question 1: What had happened to Jody’s father?
Answer: Jody’s father had been bitten by a rattlesnake.
Question 2: How did the doe save Penny’s life?
Answer: When Jody’s father, Penny was bitten by a rattlesnake, he quickly killed a doe and used its heart and liver to draw out the poison as a home remedy to save his life.
Question 3: Why does Jody want to bring the fawn home?
Answer: Jody’s father had killed the doe. Without the mother-deer, the fawn was likely to starve to death in the forest. So Jody wanted to bring the young fawn home.
Question 4: How does Jody know that the fawn is a male?
Answer: The spots on the fawn’s body made Jody know that it was a male.
Comprehension Check (Page 90)
Question 1: Jody didn’t want Mill-wheel with him for two reasons. What were they?
Answer: Jody didn’t want Mill-wheel to join him in the search for the fawn. The reason was that he was not sure about the fawn’s safety. He didn’t want Mill-wheel to see his disappointment.
Question 2: Why was Mill-wheel afraid to leave Jody alone?
Answer: 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.
Question 1: How did Jody bring the fawn back home?
Answer: 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.
Question 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?
Answer: 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 ‘light-headed 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”.
Question 3: How did the deer drink milk from the gourd?
Answer: 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.
Question 4: Why didn’t the fawn follow Jody up the steps as he had thought it would?
Answer: 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
Question 1: Why did Penny Baxter allow Jody to go find the fawn and raise it?
Answer: Penny allowed Jody to go find the fawn and raise it because it seemed ungrateful to him to leave the fawn to starve. He agreed with Jody that they had killed the doe for their purpose and the fawn was orphaned for no fault of its own. They could not let the fawn starve. They felt a responsibility towards it.
Question 2: What did Doc Wilson mean when he said, “Nothing in the world ever comes quite free”?
Answer: 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.
Question 3: How did Jody look after the fawn, after he accepted the responsibility for doing this?
Answer: After Jody accepted the responsibility for looking after the fawn, he cared for it like its own mother would. While taking it home, he shielded its face from the sharp vines. He carried it in his arms 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.
Question 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?
Answer: When Jody’s mother heard that he was going to bring the fawn home, she was a little surprised and asked Jody what fawn he was talking about. He then told her that it was the fawn whose mother they had killed to save Penny. She said they had nothing else to feed it and only the milk they gave him could be given to it. She reacted this way because she was not present at the site where Penny had been bitten, where they had killed the doe. She had not seen the fawn and therefore, was not as concerned as Penny and Jody.
