NCERT Solutions for Class 9 English (Moments) Chapter 8 A House is not a Home

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Book - Moments Ncert Solutions | Chapter-8 English-2

Class : 9th
Subject : English-2
Chapter : 8
Chapter Name : A House Is Not A Home

Q1 What does the author notice one Sunday afternoon? What is his mother’s reaction? What
does she do?

Answer. One Sunday afternoon, the author noticed a strange smell. Then he saw smoke
pouring in through the seams of the ceiling and lling the room very quickly. They could
barely see anything. By the time they ran out into the front yard, the roof was already engulfed
in ames and was spreading very quickly. His mother ran back into the house. She had brought
out a small metal box full of important documents. She wanted to bring out important things
from the house one by one. She was in a ‘crazed state’.

Q2 Why does he break down in tears after the re?

Answer. After the re, he broke down into tears because it suddenly struck him that he was
suffering a big loss. He realized that his cat could not be seen anywhere. Then, everything hit
him at once − the new school, the re, and his cat. That was when he broke down and cried.

Q3 Why is the author deeply embarrassed the next day in school? Which words show his fear
and insecurity?

Answer. He was deeply embarrassed the next day at school because of the state in which he
was. The clothes he was wearing looked odd. His shoes were gone in the re and he had to
wear tennis shoes to school. He had no homework or books and his backpack was also burnt in
the re. Some of the words that show his fear and insecurity are ‘outcast’, ‘geek’, ‘wanted to
curl up and die’, ‘zombie’, and ‘surreal’.

Q4 The cat and the author are very fond of each other. How has this been shown in the story?
Where was the cat after the re? Who brings it back and how?

Answer. The cat and the author were very fond of each other. The author said that the cat was
never far from him. He had rescued it when it was a kitten and he felt that it knew that he was
the one responsible for giving it ‘the good life’. The cat had been so freaked by the re that it

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ran over a mile away. A woman took it in and worked hard to nd out whose cat it was. The
cat’s collar had their phone number on it. However, their phones had been destroyed and
disconnected due to the re. The woman somehow knew that the cat was loved and missed.
She eventually managed to bring it back to the author.

Q5 What actions of the schoolmates change the author’s understanding of life and people, and
comfort him emotionally? How does his loneliness vanish and how does he start participating
in life?

Answer. The author’s understanding of life and people changed when at the gym class, he saw
a big table set up with all the important things he had lost in the re. His schoolmates had
collected money and bought for him school supplies, notebooks, and all kinds of different
clothes such as jeans, tops, and sweatsuits. He felt as if it was Christmas. People who had
never spoken to him before introduced themselves to him. This genuine concern touched him.
This was when his loneliness vanished.
He was watching his house getting rebuilt along with two of his new friends from school. After
the re, he had stopped focusing on his feelings of insecurity and had opened up to all the
people around him. His life had taken a new turn.

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Q1 Have any of your classmates/schoolmates had an experience like the one described in the
story where they needed help? Describe how they were helped.

Answer. Two years ago, my friend Raju visited the market to buy some household things. It
was a crowded market and a shop caught re due to short circuit The panic-stricken people
rushed here and there My friend too was trying to leave that place. He with three people got
himself locked in a nearby shop to escape from smoke. But the shop was lled with smoke
within a little span of time. They felt suffocated by the fumes. They considered that their end
was near. In the meantime, a team of an NGO broke open the shutter and took them out of the
shop. They were hospitalised quickly. could get my friend back because of the team and the
grace of God.

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