12th Eng. CBSE Ch-6. GOING PLACES Flamingo Summary/ Questions answers Theme, Message Characters, CBSE/ NCERT Based
Ch-6.Going Place A.R. Barton INTRODUCTION A.R. Barton is a modern writer He lives in Zurich and writes in English. In the story Going Places, Barton explores the theme of adolescent fantasizing and hero worship. It is natural for teenagers to have unrealistic dreams. Such fantasising gives a freedom to imagination and by setting high goals makes the person aspire and realise them. Too much fantasising leads a person to dream-world, totally severed from reality and thus doomed to be a miserable failure. SUMMARY IN ENGLISH Sophie and Jansie, two school girls, were coming home from school. Sophie declared that she was going to have a boutique. Jansie looked doubtful as something like that took money. Sophie said that she would find it. Jansie observed that it would take a long time to save that much. Sophie said she would be a manager till then. Jansie pointed out that they would not make her manager straight off. However, Sophie persisted in her fantasising. She said ...