GOING PLACES BY A.R BARTON

COMPLETE SOLUTION OF GOING PLACES

Q1. What is the name of the author of “Going Places”?

Ans:- A. R. Barton is the author of ‘Going Places’.

Q2. Who are the two main characters of the story ‘Going Places’?

Ans:- Sophie and Jansie are the two main characters of the story.

Q3. Who are Sophie and Jansie?

Ans:- Sophie and Jansie both are bosom classmates.

Q4. What are the dreams of Sophie?

Ans:- Sophie is a dreaming girl who dreams to be many things. Sohpie wants to have a boutique, her dreams to be a manager, an actress, a fashion designer and she wants to buy a beautiful amazing house.

Q5. How Jansie’s behaviour is different from Sophie?

Ans:- Sophie is a daydreaming girl who only keeps on dreaming by watching around her, while her classmate Jansie is a sensible girl who doesn’t dream like Sophie.

Q6. Who is Geoff?

Ans:- Geoff is Sophie’s brother who is three years senior to her.

Q7. Where do Sophie and Jansie work?

Ans:- Sophie and Jansie work in a biscuit factory.

Q8. What was Geoff doing after his schooling?

Ans:- Geoff was taking training for being a mechanic after his schooling.

Q9. What were the options that Sophie was dreaming of ? Why does Jansie discourage her from having such dreams?

Ans:- Sophie was a daydreaming girl. She wanted to open a boutique, indeed her choice of being extremely out of her approach. She wanted to be a manager, an actress, fashion designer and owner of a beautiful house. But Jansie who was a sensible girl and classmate of Sophie always made her realize that her father wouldn’t let her do such a work. She always answered Sophie that, these are only dreams not reality. Thus Jansie discouraged Sophie from having such dreams.

Q10. Who is Danny Casey? What does he do?

Ans:- Danny Casey is a famous footballer of Ireland. He plays for Ireland.

Q11. Did Sophie really meet Danny Casey?

Ans:- No, she never met Danny Casey.

Q12. Why did Sophie lie her brother that she has met Danny Casey?

Ans:- Sophie lied her brother Geoff because she wanted to draw the attention of her brother towards her own view and that’s why she lied her brother.

Q13. Did Sophie’s father believe at Sophie?

Ans:- Not at all, he didn’t believe at Sophie.

Q14. Does Geoff believe what Sophie says about her meeting with Danny Casey?

Ans:- Yes, Geoff believes whatever Sophie says about her meeting with Danny Casey. He trusts that Sophie might have met Danny Casey but he doesn’t trust that Casey would have given her any appointment to meet Sophie.

Q15. Does her father believe her story?

Ans:- No, Sophie’s father doesn’t believe her wild story. He knows better about Sophie that she is a dreaming girl.

Q16. How does Sophie include her brother Geoff in her fantasy of her future?

Ans:- Geoff is only whom Sophie believes, she also includes her brother in her fantasy of her future. She feels that her brother is one of the different fellows among her family who trusts her.

Q17. Does Danny Casey come to meet Sophie?

Ans:- No, he doesn’t come.

Q18. Why didn’t Sophie want Jansie to know about her story with Danny?

Ans:- Sophie didn’t want let her father know about her meeting with Danny Casey because she was feared of her father. She knew that her father would angry with her if he would come  to know about her wild story, moreover people would question her father about her relation with Casey. Though her father didn’t believe her imaginative story too, that’s why she didn’t tell her story to Jansie so that she could hide her secret from her father.

Q19. Did Sophie really meet Danny Casey?

Ans:- Not at all, it was an illusion of Sophie that she had met Danny Casey. Though she was a great admirer of Casey and there was much respect in the heart of Sophie towards Casey. She wanted to meet Danny, perhaps it was her imagine of meeting Casey, that Sophie really felt she had met Danny Casey.

Q20. Which was the only occasion when she got to see Danny Casey in person?

Ans:- The only occasion when Sophie saw Danny Casey. It was while playing the United club match on the weekend where she visited with her father and brother to enjoy it.

Q25. Sophie and Jansie were classmates and friends. What were the differences between them that show up in the story?

Ans:- Sophie and Jansie both were classmates as well as bosom friends but both were quite different from each other. And there were many differences between them. Sophie was a daydreaming girl who always kept on dreaming. But Jansie was a sensible girl who didn’t dream like Sophie. Sophie stired herself in the fantasy of Danny Casey. She dreamt of many types of profession like an actress, a fashion designer and a manager etc. But her friend Jensie lived in her real life beyond the imagination.

Q26. What socio-economic background did Sophie belong to? What are the indicators of her family’s financial status?

Ans:- Sophie belonged to the lower middle class family of the society. She had a working class background. She would have to work in a biscuit factory at meagre wages after completing her schooling. Sophie’s father was a hard working man who had a bicycle. She didn’t have strong financial background, her brother Geoff also worked as a mechanic in a garage who had an old motor bike that often kept on breaking down. This status indicates towards her family’s financial conditions.