Unit 4 Work and Leisure Exercise: Class 10 English Guide

C. Answer these questions.

• a. Why do you think the man who then got the school card from Sarah and Jamie make an angry face Explanation : The man bitterly was looking for work he saw two kids at the farm and left everybody shocked as they were not in school.
• b) Why were Sarah and Jamie searching for a job rather than attending school? Explanation: Sarah and Jamie were on holiday and wanted to earn some money to support their parents during their break from school.
• c. In farm, why the man was giving them way? The man needed someone to check the cabbages and remove caterpillars from the cabbages in his farm, so he was glad that Sarah and Jamie were there to assist him.
• What work were they meant to do on the man's farm? A: They had to inspect every individual cabbage in the garden and kill all the caterpillars, which meant picking them off one by one and collecting them into buckets.
• e. Seriously, was that a million or billion caterpillas in the cabbage field? So what do you mean by a million caterpillars or a billion caterpillars, if not that? Because there are not really million or billion of caterpillars, Sarah and Jamie were telling that there are so much caterpillars in cabbage field.
• f. Where were Sarah and Jamie in distress? We explain: Sarah and Jamie were desperate because their job of removing the caterpillars from the cabbages was hard work and seemed never-ending.
• g. What was that genius idea from Sarah? A: Sarah's 'brilliant' idea was to get rid of the butterflies, it would be one less butterfly laying eggs on our cabbages (that means no more eggs, and no more caterpillars!).
• h. Did the kids enjoy what they were doing? Give reasons for your answer. Did the kids get happy with the work they did? Ans: No, the kids did not getli happy by their work as they became tired and rested leaving a mess in the cabbage patch and finding no cabbage butterflies.
• i. What led them to make the secretive escape from the farm? Q: Why did they run away quietly? A: Because they thought the man would know their names and were angry with them for ruining his cabbages and butterflies in the garden.

Unit 4 : Reading - II 

Leave this Chanting and Singing Notes 

Summary

It tells us to relinquish rituals such as chanting, singing, counting beads in devotion. Is it possible to find God in this closed temple? Yet He is found everywhere, even in tilling the ground and breaking stones.

The poet wants the reader to leave behind their high-raised, divine pedestal that they maintained by fucking over others and participate in the roughness of day-day life together. It reminds us that freedom from the spirit doesn't actually mean detachment from this world but coming to terms with spiritual bondage, that our salvation is caught up in community.

To sum it up, this poem teaches us to remove rituals and realise the divine essence within everything around us and attain salvation in togetherness.

Key Points

• a. Who is the audience for this poem? The poem, of course, is not directed toward anyone specifically. This message is more directed towards readers in a temple where the doors are locked with chanting, singing and beads.
• b. What does the speaker warn people do? What is something worshippers have to leave behind according to the speaker? The speaker advises people to leave behind traditional rituals like chanting, singing, and counting beads in their worship.
• c. Where do people seek to discover the god? People are searching for God in an empty dark corner of a closed door Temple.
• d. Where does the speaker actually say the god lives? Answer: The speaker claims that God lives in the world of work and labor. God is in the common labors like plowing and quarrying.
• e. How is it possible for men to see the god? Response: Individuals can glimpse God by living life fully — promising to the grittiness of existence and personal relationship with other individuals.
• f. Why is this god unable to save people? Why does God not save anyone? Answer: Because he himself voluntarily clasped the fetters of creation to himself and with all creaturely existences bound down forever. He rejoices with them and suffers with them.
• g. Follow the instruction of the speaker mentioned in last stanza. Response: The final stanza explains why the speaker urges people to come "out of your meditations / leave your flowers and incense." Instead they should meet with the others, stand by them, work hard and sweat on their brows — just like God does in the world.

D. Do you believe in the existence of god? What do you do to please him? Share your opinion.

I believe in God, though. To me, God is the highest presence of all good, love and truth. I mean, we live in a breathtaking world — well, as beautiful and diverse and complicated as it is mind-boggling; the bloodshed; how can one God create both the nature of man and a such magnificent torso for Him to rest in?Working through these questions lent me a life philosophy. For me, the existence of anything at all, as opposed to nothingness, is evidence enough that some sort of supernatural force or conscious entity must be responsible.

I try to be a good person and live by the rules of the divine because I want to please God. In my interactions with others, I make an effort to be a kind, honest and compassionate person. I do my best to not hurt anybody by what I say or do. When i can, I obey : I document those in need. I also try to release greed, envy, and hatred — anything that pulls me away from divinity. I try to stay present in the moment, each day grateful for all I have received.

I have no proof of God apart from my gut and experience. However, I believe faith and spirituality gives my life some meaning. They remind me to be the best version of myself. And in the end, that is all what counts — be in touch with your purpose; live in a way that benefits most those around you and serve the higher objective of life.

So in summary: Yes, I argue and thus believe in God. Not a narrow dogmatic god, but a higher universal consciousness of truth and love and beauty that infuses all creation. And I have this notion of a divine spirit and I try my hardest to align that with my own consciousness through the way I live, what I stand for and who I connect with.