CLASS 11 – ENGLISH Lesson1: HIS FIRST FLIGHT

**mis nazma** · 19th March 2013, 11:23 AM

CLASS 11 – ENGLISH
Lesson1: HIS FIRST FLIGHT

Q1: What is the young seagull afraid of?
Ans. The young seagull is afraid of making the first flight of his life. To him it is a life- risk to fly over the very vast ocean beneath which is a mile down from his ledge. Besides, he thinks that his wings will not support him during the flight. He is so phobic that he finds himself to be unfit for this task.

Q2. Why don’t his parents, his brothers and sister give him food?
Ans. His parents, his brother and his sister don’t give him food because they want the young seagull should make an attempt to fly like them and search for his food by himself. They don’t like to see him fearful and coward. They even taunt him for his cowardice and threat him to let him die of hunger unless he himself makes an attempt to fly.

Q3. What does his mother force him to fly?
Ans. The seagull’s mother is very clever and shrewd. She takes a piece of fish and comes near him. When he thinks she will give him food, she stops near him. The seagull is maddened by hunger so much so that he jumps to catch the food. This is how the seagull is forced to fly by his mother.

Q4. What does he feel when he finally his wings and finds that he is not falling?
Ans. When he finally flaps his wings and finds that he is not falling. He feels that all his fears about making his first flight were baseless. He is no longer afraid although he feels a bit dizzy yet he moves his wings and lies upwards very confidently. He enjoys this first virgin flight of his life so much so that he flaps his wings again and again and utters very jubilant cries.

Q5. What is significant about the bird’s first flight?
Ans. The significant thing about the bird’s first flight is that fears are natural before the start of any new task but they are usually self-created and baseless. We find the reality is very different. Like the seagull we enjoy the real fun of life when we accept the challenges and not when we surrender to them.

Q6. What lesson do you derive from this simple story?
Ans. The lesson that we learn is that before starting a new work there are always problems, but losing hope or confidence is not the solution. We should try our level best and never give up the struggle in despair.

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