(a) Which unforgettable character did Charlie Chaplin invent ?

Question

Read the passage given below:

1. The ‘Little ’, the unforgettable character Charlie Chaplin invented, was born purely by accident in 1915. While rushing to a film in California, he grabbed clothes other people had left behind in the changing room. And when he emerged, he found he had created a personality everybody loved. A little guy in a bowler hat, a close-fitting jacket, a cane, oversized shoes and a brush-like moustache!

2. Before long, Chaplin found himself a star. That puzzled him, for he saw himself essentially as a shy British Music hall comedian. The U.*. acknowledged him as its king of silent film comedy. Soon, so did crowds all over the world.

3. But life wasn’t always a laugh for Charles Spencer Chaplin. Both his parents were Music Hall artists, who separated when Charlie was very young. His childhood was very sad, for his mother never earned enough to look after Charlie and his elder brother, Sydney. Sometimes, Chaplin had to sleep on the streets and forage for food in the garbage.

4. Charlie took his first bow on stage when his mother made her last appearance. It happened when her voice broke during a song. Her son stepped on stage and sang a popular song. That’* when a star was born.

5. Through all these years of success, Charlie never forgot his troubled childhood. It made him recall a Christmas when he was denied two oranges and his bag of sweets for breaking a rule at the orphanage he went to after his mother’ . It would have broken his heart, if the other **** had not offered him a share of theirs. Spontaneously, the ***** Chaplin gifted the orphanage with a motion picture machine and insisted that each child should have as many oranges and sweets as they pleased.

Answer the following questions in 30-40 words each :

(a) Which unforgettable character did Charlie Chaplin invent ?

(b) Describe the personality created by Charlie, whom everybody loved.

(c) What did Charlie see himself as ?

(d) Give two reasons to show that his early life was very sad.

(e) ‘That’* when a star was born.’ Explain.

Answer 1

(a) The Sahara, the world’* largest desert, has some places which have something unbelievable about them e.g. there are places where it rains only about once a century or there are people who reach the end of their lives without even seeing water coming from the sky.

(b) Hippopotamuses are animals which need round the year water. The presence of these animals in Sahara tells us that it was green once. Beneath the Sahara, there are vast acquifiers of fresh water which is enough liquid to fill a small sea.

(c) There was an increased blast of sunlight during the summer months which caused *** Monsoon to shift to the North 10,000 years ago.

(d) Noone knows whether Sahara can ever change in the future. It is something scientists can ponder how human-driven climate change may alter the Sahara in the future.

(e) Jennifer Smith, a geologist at Washington University in St. Louis said that there was not much evidence of a paradise out there, but there was something perfectly liveable.