Leela's Friend Question & Answers

Leela's Friend Question & Answers

Before starting the question answers i would like to mention some of the most importent quatation of this prose. Those are mentioned below :
1) ‘I like him, don’t send him away. Keep him in our house’.
That was the decision on keeping Sidda, made by Leela.

2) ‘…was utterly incapable of plying the pencil’.
This shows that Sidda is uneducated.

3) ‘His throat went dry. He blinked and answered that he did not know’.
This gives the thought of a guilty person. (even though Sidda isn’t)

4) ‘He is a thief; he has taken away your gold chain’.
This shows that they (Mr and Mrs Sivasanker) totally believed that Sidda had
taken the chain, just because he had been a criminal.

5) ‘Day by day she clung closer to him’.
This shows that Leela is grows fond of Sidda in a short time.

6) ‘it was unmistakeably Leela’s chain’.
The parents were wrong and it was definitely Leela’s chain that was found in a pot
and it wasn’t stolen by Sidda.

Short answer type Questions :

1)  Where does Mr. Sivasankar first meet Sidda?

Ans : Mr. Sivasankar first meets Sidda at the gate in front of his house.

2)  List Sidda’s Chores/duties in the Sivasankar household.

Ans: Sidda’s chores/duties in the Sivasankar household consists of washing clothes, fending the garden, running errands, chooping woods and looking after Leela.

3)  What is Mr. Sivasankar’s first impression of Sidda?

Ans: Mr. Sivasankar suspects that Sidda could be a criminal.

4)  How did Sidda react when Leela’s mother asked him about the chain?

Ans: When Leele’s mother asked Sidda about the Chain,He blinked and said that he did not know.

5)  What do you understand about Sidda from his conversation with Leela?

Ans: From his conversation with Leela, we understand that Sidda is an imaginative storyteller and entertaining companion.

**Long Answer type Questions**

1) Describe the character of Sidda.

Ans: Sidda has been described in the story as a very responsible servant of the Sivasanker household and a reliable and constant companion of Leela. He performed all his duties faithfully and took good care of Leela. He had a great imaginative faculty and from his imagination sprung stories that enthralled Leela. He had great power of convincing little Leela and he made her believe that he had the power to control the moon. He had no interest in studies and never learnt anything that Leela tried to teach him. He also had no idea how to prove his innocence when he was accused of stealing the chain. He remained speechless throughout and fell victim because he belonged to the lower class whose voice is never heard.
2) List the ways in which Sidda’s company makes Leela supremly happy and also how Leela attempts to Educate him in turn.

Ans: The ways in which Sidda’s company makes Leela supremly happy were, Sidda always used to play with Leela in the garden with a red ball.Leela used to flung the ball at Sidda and Sidda used to flung it back.Sidda even used to show Leela the beauty and magic of Moon,that the Moon can be seen from wherever Leela wanted to see.

After playing games the little girl Leela took him to her classroom, in the dusk time.There Leela was showing her box filled with catalogue,illustrated books and stumps of pencils.It used to gave her great joy to play as a teacher with Sidda.Leela used to made Sidda squat on the floor with a pencil between his fingers and a catalogue in front of him.On the other side Leela used to have another pencil and a catalogue to command as a teacher to Sidda.Whatever Leela used to write and draw, Sidda strictly had to copy the same thing from Leela.In this way Leela attempted to Educate Sidda in turn.

3)  How did Leela try to teach Sidda?
Ans:  Leela used to make Sidda squat on the floor with a pencil between his fingers and a catalogue in front of him. She then used to command him to write and Siidda had to try to copy whatever Leela wrote in the pages. When Sidda failed to copy Leela’s writings and drawings, Leela would rebuke Sidda and double her efforts to teach him. But Sidda, though he had an excellent rapport with the Moon, was incapable of studying and Leela used to keep him there, pinned to his seat, till his still, inflexible wrist cracked. Sidda then used to say that he thought Leela’s mother was calling her to dinner and that would end the school hour.