Crime And Punishment

            CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
                                        - R K Narayan
Read And Respond
1. Why did the boy try to fool the teacher by repeating his mistake?
        The boy tried to fool the teacher by repeating his mistake because he did not want to continue with his studies. He was interested in playing and not studying.
2. Why did the parents give the boy intensive coaching in Mathematics?
       The parents gave the boy intensive coaching in Mathematics because they wanted him to score 50 in Mathematics and thus get a double promotion to the first form.
3. How does the teacher react when the boy repeated the mistake several times?
       The teacher slapped the boy hard on his cheek when he repeated the mistake several times.
4. What is the boy’s response when the teacher slapped him on his cheek?
       The boy gazed at the teacher for a moment and started crying.
5. Why does the teacher ask the boy not to tell the incident to his mother?
      The teacher asks the boy not to tell the incident to his mother because the mother would get angry and dismiss him from work.
6. How do the parents consider the boy?
      The parents consider the boy a little angel. He was their only child and they gave him a lot of love.
7. What facilities do the parents provide to the boy?
      They built him a nursery, bought him expensive toys, fitted up miniature furniture sets, gave him a small pedal motor car to move about in the garden. His cupboard was filled with chocolates and biscuits which he could eat as he wanted.
8. Why do the parents give half an hour’s class on child psychology to the teacher every day?
          The father had written a thesis on infant psychology for his M.A. The mother had studied a good deal of it for her B.A. It seemed they wanted him to treat the boy as if he was made of thin glass. The parents thought that no prohibition or repression should affect the boy’s mind. If you make restrictions and repressions, you will damage the child for life.
9. Why does the teacher consider the boy a gorilla?
          The teacher considers the boy a gorilla because he is very mischievous. He does not want to study and he disobeys instructions. The parents thinkthe boy is a little angel, but the teacher knows he is a gorilla difficult to teach and manage.
10. How does the boy compel die teacher to act as a station master? And what duty does he assign to the teacher?
         The boy compels the teacher to act as a station master by threatening to tell the slapping incident to his parents. His duty was to blow the whistle when the train reached his station and ask the train driver to stop the train as there are many people who have bought tickets.
11. When is the teacher relieved of the role of the station master?
          The teacher is relieved of the role of the station master when the train refused to move. The boy handed it to the teacher and told him to repair it. The teachertumed it around in his hand and said he did not know anything about it.
12. Why does the teacher become desperate?
          The teacher becomes desperate because he can’t make the train work. He was absolutely non-mechanical and he does not know what to do to make the train move.
13. How does the teacher become tired?
         The teacher becomes tired because he had done six hours of teaching at school during the day. He had lost his breath.
14. Why does the teacher decide to reveal the matter to the parents?
Answer:
The teacher decides to reveal the matter to the parents because he is tired of the blackmailing by the boy. It is better to tell the truth to the parents and accept whatever punishment they give than stand the blackmailing by the boy.
15. Why does the boy become so annoyed and slink behind his parents?
          The boy becomes so annoyed and slinks behind his parents when his father asked the teacher how the boy was preparing for the test in arithmetic.

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