Flamingo Going Places (A.R. Barton) Short question answers

 

NCERT Solutions For Class 12 English

Flamingo

Going Places  

(A.R. Barton)

Short question answers

Question 1) Where was it most likely that the two girls would find work after school?

Answer: Sophie and Jansie would shortly graduate from their school. Only a few months remained. Jansie was well aware that both of them were headed for the biscuit factory. Sophie had big aspirations for her career. Jansie was a realist. She was aware that shop job was low-paying, and Sophie's father would not let her work there.

Question 2) What were the options that Sophie was dreaming of? Why does Jansie discourage her from having such dreams?

Answer: Sophie wants to create a boutique. It would be the most incredible shop the city had ever witnessed. Alternatively, she could become an actress and operate the store as a side business. She also considered being a fashion designer. Jansie had her feet planted firmly on the earth. She wanted Sophie to be sensible and forego all of her utopian aspirations, which all required a lot of money and experience.

Question 3) Why did Sophie wriggle when Geoff told her father that she had met Danny Casey?

Answer: Sophie had a close relationship with her father. He would be furious if he learned about her meeting with Danny Casey, a young Irish footballer. She did not inform him. When Geoff told his father about it, he became furious. He turned Ms' head and looked at her with disgust. Sophie wriggled in her seat at the table.

Question 4 )Does Geoff believe what Sophie says about her meeting with Danny Casey?
Answer: No, Geoff does not accept Sophie's claims regarding her meeting with Danny Casey. First, he looks about in surprise and says, "It can't be true". Again, he responds, "I don't believe it." Sophie then describes how Danny Casey approached and stood by her. Geoff asks her, "What does he look like?" So he doesn't appear to be convinced Sophie met Danny Casey.

Question 5) Does her father believe her story?

Answer: Sophie's father doesn't trust her story. When Geoff informed him that Sophie had met Danny Casey, his father looked at SopMe with contempt. He ignores her completely. He believes it is yet another 'crazy narrative'. He continues to discuss Tom Finny, another famous football player.

Question 6) Why didn’t Sophie want Jansie to know about her story with Danny?

Answer: Jansie was intensely interested in topics that did not involve her. She was curious about other people's affairs. She would spread the word across the neighborhood. Sophie didn't want Jansie to know about her experience with Danny. It could also be mutual competitiveness and one-upsmanship on her part. Sophie was surprised to find that Geoff had told Jansie about her experience with Danny.

Question 7) Did Sophie really meet Danny Casey? [Delhi 2014]
Answer: Sophie did not actually meet Danny Casey. She was attracted by the young Irish footballer. She imagined he was arriving. She waited in the park, waiting for Casey but knowing he would not arrive. She felt sad. Sadness was a difficult burden to bear. She was always lost in a fantasy realm, where she envisioned Casey meeting her.

Question 8) Which was the only occasion when she got to see Danny Casey in person?

Answer: Sophie only saw Danny Casey in person once, when the family went to watch United on Saturday. Sophie, her father, and Derek tumbled down near the goal. Geoff went with his friends higher up. United won two-nil. Her idol, Casey, drove in the second goal. She witnessed the Irish genius get past two large players on the brink of the penalty area. He defeated the cautious goalkeeper from 12 yards out. Sophie flushed with pride. She was quite happy.

Question 9) What are the other dreams of Sophie in addition to having a boutique?

Answer: Sophie's greatest desire is to own a store. She aspires to be more sophisticated and rise beyond her lower-middle-class background. Her other ambition is to become an actress since "there's real money in that". Moreover, actresses do not work full-time. She may manage her first love, the boutique, as a side business. She's got another alternative. She could become a fashion designer and do something smart.

Question 10) What job is Geoff engaged in? How does he differ from his sister, Sophie?

Answer: Geoff is a mature boy. He left school three years ago. He is currently an apprentice mechanic. Every day, he needs to travel to the other side of the city for business. He says little but listens to his sister's 'crazy stories'. But he's not a daydreamer like her. He understands his family's financial difficulties. He advises Sophie not to fantasize about a celebrity like Danny Casey.

Question 11) How does Sophie’s father react when Geoff tells him about her meeting with Danny Casey?

Answer: Geoff informs his father that Sophie has had a meeting with Danny Casey. He tilts his head on his thick neck, staring at her in bewilderment. His face is one of disgust. He ignores the news and goes on to discuss Tom Finney. He hopes Danny will come to like Tom Finney one day. Sophie tells Casey that he is planning to buy a shop, and he responds sharply. "This is another of your wild stories."

Question 12) Why was the visit of Sophie’s father and his family to watch United ‘their weekly pilgrimage’ ?

Answer: Sophie's father was an avid footfall fan. He was particularly interested in the career of Danny Casey, the Irish prodigy. Geoff, too, was interested in football. Sophie saw Danny Casey as her personal hero. She was continuously dreaming about him. Casey played for United. The family made regular visits to the stadium to watch him. So the family's visit resembled a religious or holy weekly ritual—a pilgrimage.

Question 13) Where did Sophie meet Casey and what transpired between them?

Answer: Sophie met Danny Casey at the arcade. She spoke first, asking whether he was Casey. He seemed astonished. He was definitely Danny Casey because he had an Irish accent. She had already heard him on TV. She requested him to sign an autograph for little Derek. However, neither of them had any paper or pens. Before leaving, he promised to sign his autograph if she wanted to meet him next week.

Question 14) What did Sophie want to keep a secret from her father and why? How did Jansie react to this disclosure?

Answer: Sophie informed Jansie that she wanted to keep her encounter with Casey a secret. If her father found out, there would be a fight. Jansie believed he would be happy. Sophie informed Jansie how miserable her father was. Furthermore, she didn't want a swarm of people questioning him about Danny Casey and her. She worried he would kill her. Her mother became agitated anytime there was a fight. Jansie reassured Sophie that she could trust her to maintain the secret.

Question 15) Why did Sophie choose to walk by the canal? What did she do there?

Answer: Sophie took a sheltered path alongside the canal. It was far from the loud and crowds of the metropolis. She had often played there as a child. There was a wooden bench under a single elm tree. Sometimes lovers would come there. That was the best place for her to dream about her hero, Danny Casey.