Read carefully the passages given below and answer the questions that follow
When my maternal uncle was alive, his only son quietly made plans to settle in Germany with his wife. Without informing his father or sister he bought tickets and sold all movable things at home.A week before he left, everyone was informed of his plans. People criticised him for abandoning his father. The married daughter who was settled in Bhopal, shifted to Delhi to look after her father. A year later the father was admitted to a private hospital and . The son came from Germany, paid the bills and performed all the * ceremonies.
People now said that after all he had come all the way so he was not a bad son. No word about how he had neglected his father or how his sister had to disrupt her personal life to take care of old Dad.
This is what life teaches every daughter. That our society values a son more because he has the religious sanction to perform ***** ceremonies and grant them liberation - (mukti). A daughter may have given them love, care, sensitivity, time, service, but the son gets preference because he carries forward the family name and performs shraadh. He may be uncaring, arrogant and indifferent but for parents a son is their treasure.
Two years back in our neighbourhood a man without leaving a will. His only son sold the bungalow and took away his mother without informing his three sisters who then approached the courts for a share of the property. Is this the family structure we boast of to the world? Where does love and laughter vanish when siblings become adults? Are we right in blaming a newly wed for poisoning a son’ brain? Love for a daughter has to come from within. Saints repeatedly clarify that *** ceremonies need not be performed only by one’ own son. And what guarantee is there that a son will perform the shraadh? If parents do not reciprocate a daughter’* love, won’t Heaven, which claims to be just and fair, reproach them for their insensitivity?
(i) Why did people criticise the son?
(ii) The girl shifted from Bhopal to Delhi. Why?
(iii) People changed their views about the son later on. Why? Do you agree with their views?
(iv) The parents consider their son as a treasure because :
(a) He is uncaring and arrogant.
(b) He goes abroad to earn money
(c) He sells the property
(d) He carries forward the family name.
(v) Daughters are the gifts for the parents. Do you agree? Give reason.
(vi) Find words from the passage which mean same as -
(a) leave permanently
(b) disappear suddenly
(vii) Do you think that society is insensitive to a daughter’* love for her parents? Give an example.
(viii) Frame two questions based on the underlined part of the passage.
