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Class 9 INTER UNIVERSITY PRESS Solutions English Chapter 2 - Journey by Night

Journey by Night Exercise Passage 1

Solution 1

Mother was worried about Kunwar's failing health and thought that she'd lose him too like her other children. She was tired and alone and had lived through the deaths of many of her children before hence, she neither smiled nor wept. 

Solution 2

Sher Singh and Kunwar had many siblings but unfortunately they had died due to serious illnesses such as cholera and influenza and by jungle accidents. 

Solution 3

Sher Singh's younger brother Kunwar was seriously ill. It was not clear what was wrong with him, but the child was constantly crying due to the pain in his stomach and fever. 

Solution 4

Sher Singh's mother had other children apart from Kunwar and Sher Singh. However, they had all died due to illnesses such as influenza and cholera or forest mishaps. 

Solution 5

The phrase 'carried off' in the given context means 'caused the death of someone'. 

Journey by Night Exercise Passage 2

Solution 1

Mother thought that if she wrung out rags in boiling water and laid them on Kunwar's stomach, he would feel better. They used fuel recklessly so as to boil the water sooner. 

Solution 2

Mother said that Kunwar had to be taken to the hospital. Sher Singh knew that people from the village went to the hospital only to never return. In addition, the absence of his father, scared Sher Singh all the more and he felt choked under emotional stress which is expressed in the words 'something took him by the throat'. 

Solution 3

Sher Singh's father was out on a hunting expedition and it would not be possible for him to find his father in time to take his little brother to the hospital. 

Solution 4

Sher Singh ran around to collect the sticks and dung to set up the fire and the water to boil the rags in. He also tore up the rag so that Mother could wring out the rags in and lay them on Kunwar's stomach. 

Journey by Night Exercise Passage 3

Solution 1

Sher Singh would have to get through the jungle and cross two rivers to reach the hospital in Kalaghat. 

Solution 2

Sher Singh's father was not at home and it would be days before he returned from his hunting expedition. Therefore, Sher Singh had to take his sick brother Kunwar alone to the hospital. 

Solution 3

Sher Singh was hoping to get a lift in a bullock cart or perhaps even a broken-down truck for the last part of his journey to the hospital in Kalaghat. 

Solution 4

Sher Singh was not big enough to carry Kunwar on his back. However, this did not deter him from setting off from his village to Kalaghat nonetheless. He had mentally the ways he would take to get to the road that could get him a lift till the hospital. This shows that he was strongly determined to save his brother's life.

 

Journey by Night Exercise Passage 4

Solution 1

Sher Singh was only twelve years old, too young to carry another boy on his back. He was finding it difficult to carry Kunwar, who was burning with fever. His muscles got tired after carrying his brother and hence, he felt that the boy was getting heavier. 

Solution 2

The jungle was dense and full of flora and fauna. It had been there since the beginning of the world. This is the reason why the author calls the forest primeval or 'ancient'. 

Solution 3

The jungle was luxuriant with bamboo and thorn thickets. There was undergrowth and grass all around. There animals such as monkeys, raucous peacocks, tigers, panthers, bears and elephants too. The beasts of prey would not only kill domestic animals but also humans for food as the most of the deer in the forest were poached. 

Solution 4

Kunwar was so ill that he was disoriented. He kept twitching and groaning on Sher Singh's back. He had high fever and a severe pain in his stomach. It was not clear what was wrong with him, but his mother thought that he must have contracted cholera or influenza, diseases that had taken away lives of other villagers in the past. 

Journey by Night Exercise Passage 5

Solution 1

Sher Singh had reached a cliff which was above a river-bed when he realised that he could not go any further without some rest. He slowly laid down his brother, supporting him against a tree when he heard the elephants approaching. 

Solution 2

Sher Singh while on his way to the hospital Sher Singh came across a herd of elephants moving along a water body in the jungle. He saw their ears flapping, and their tails swinging as they moved. He also heard the crushing of sand under their feet and the brushing of their rough hide against each other.  

Solution 3

Sher Singh saw a herd of elephants walking past the river bed below the cliff he was sitting on with Kunwar. Among the cows and the babies, there was a tusker whose cheeks were smeared with dark, oily musth. In that condition, if the elephant spotted him and Kunwar, they both could have been killed by him. This thought frightened Sher Singh. 

Solution 4

Sher Singh knew the danger which the herd of elephants posed to him and his little brother. With Kunwar on his back, he could neither run nor climb if the tusker in the herd attacked them. Therefore, with cold fear in his heart, Sher Singh prayed fervently for some aid. The author uses the expression 'prayers after prayers fled up' to stress on his nervousness. 

Journey by Night Exercise Passage 6

Solution 1

Sher Singh was exhausted by the time he reached the road. The gushing river seemed to have sucked up all his strength. He neither knew what happened nor was in the condition to wring his dhoti dry. He stumbled as he walked, and his knees bent and trembled under the weight of his brother. 

Solution 2

Sher Singh Sher Singh travelled the entire way from Laldwani to the hospital in Kalaghat all alone on foot by night carrying his ailing little brother on his back. On his way he braved the dense forests and gushing ice-cold waters of the stormy river. When the doctor realised all that this twelve-year-old boy had gone through for his brother's life, he added the title 'Bahadur' to his name. 

Solution 3

After carrying Kunwar on his back through the primeval forest and struggling through the cold river, Sher Singh reached a road from where he got a lift in a bullock cart and then a truck which finally took him to hospital at Kalaghat. 

Solution 4

Sher Singh had no money when he reached the hospital so he worked at the rail yard loading coal. He used the money that he got for his work to buy some coarse flour, mustard oil, and chillies. This he then used to prepare his own meal. 

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