The fun they had Summary in English & Questions Answer Class 9th
The fun they had (Isaac Asimov)
The fun They Had Summary In English
The story is set around 150 years
in the future; 17th May 2157 to be exact. The author describes a time in the
future when every child has his own machine, teachers and schools like no one
exists today. There are tele books, in which words move across the screen.
Given that this story was written in 1951 before personal computers were
around, it's surprising how well the author predicts the future. We are not
living in 2155 right now, but it is already possible for us to read digital
books on handheld devices. Maybe in the future, kids will actually be taught by
mechanical teachers!
On that particular day, a thirteen-year-old boy, Tommy,
finds a 'real book' in the attic of his house. The book, which is really old,
is printed on paper and its pages are yellow and smelly. He and his friend,
eleven-year-old Margie, take a look at the book together. Margie and Tommy are
both amazed by the book that is different from the books they are accustomed
to. The book has words that are fixed on the pages and do not move on the
screen. Books like these no longer exist. Margie remembers that her grandfather
once told her about stories that were printed on paper in her grandfather's
time. Tommy considers the book unrealistic because, unlike his telebook, which
has a million books and is good for many more, one has to throw the book away
after reading it.
Tommy tells Margie that the book is about school, but
Margie, who hates school and doesn't understand why anyone would write about
her, is disappointed. him his. There is a problem in learning geography from a
'mechanical teacher'. This teaches Margie, gives her exercises and asks her
questions, all in a special room in their house. It can also calculate the mark
in no time. Margie hates the slot where she has to put her homework or test
papers.
Recently, her dislike for her school has intensified because
her mechanical teacher has a geography field. It's taking her test after test
in geography and she's doing even worse.
His mother sent the county inspector to see the mechanical
engineer and rectify the error. The inspector takes the mechanical teacher
apart and finds that Margie is not at fault for her poor performance.
The teacher's geography area is decided at a pace that is
too fast for a little girl. Margie is hoping she won't know how to reconnect
it, but she does know how to fix it, and after an hour or so the inspector can
set the pace for Margie's level. This frustrates Margie as she hopes that her
teacher will be put away for a while and she will be relieved of the hassle of
taking so many tests.
Tommy, who is reading the book, tells Margie that the book
is not about their kind of school, which has mechanical teachers with TVs,
rather, it is about schools hundreds of years ago when students had a teacher.
One person in the form taught girls and boys, gave them homework and asked them
questions. The school was a special building in which the children went. And if
they were the same age, they learned the same.
At first Margie didn't understand how a person could be a
teacher and how to teach the same thing to students because her mother says
that education should fit into each child's mind.
Still, she wants to read more about it. They don't even read
half the book when Margie's mother reminds him that it is school time. Although
Margie's school room is right next to their bedroom, she has to study at
regular hours as her mother considers it appropriate to study at a fixed time
every day.
Margie goes to the school room in her house, where the
mechanical teacher is already there as the lessons always take place on a
regular schedule. As the mechanical teacher teaches to add proper fractions,
Margie becomes lost in her thoughts about the work of schools in olden times.
Although at first Margie was sceptical of the concept that by the end of the
story she believed that the children would have enjoyed going to school
together. They must have enjoyed going to the same school, studying the same
things, and being able to help each other.
SOLVED QUESTION-ANSWER:
Question 1. Who are Margie and Tommy? how old are they?
Answer: Margie and Tommy are students of the year 2157. Tommy
is a thirteen year old boy and Margie is an eleven year old girl. Both are
neighbors and good friends who like to spend time together like children of
their age.
Question 2. What did Margie write in her diary?
Answer: Margie recorded in her diary the discovery of the
"real" book by Tommy on 17 May 2157. It was a very old book that was
printed on paper and had pale and sloppy pages, unlike the telebooks of the
twentieth century.
Question 3. Where did Tommy get the book? How was it different
from Margie and Tommy's books?
Answer: Tommy found a real book in the attic of his house. The
book was at least two hundred years old so the pages turned yellow and
discolored. This was different from the Margie books and Tommy was used because
he had a telebook to read, while the book Tommy found was printed on paper.
Question 4. Has Margie ever seen an actual book before? Did he
know about such books?
Answer: No, Margie had never seen the book before seeing Tommy
found in the attic of her house. He had only heard of his grandfather's books
which no one himself had seen. He too had heard about a printed book from his
grandfather.
Question 5. What did Margie and Tommy find strange about the
book?
Answer: Margie and Tommy read the telebook where the words
moved to a screen. The books were stored in a machine that could store a
million books on it and would still be good for much more. So he found it
strange that the words in the printed book remained in contrast to the ones
playing on his television screen.
Question 6. What do you think a telebook is?
Answer: A telebook is a book that is made available in text on
a television screen. Many books can be stored and read in this manner. (The
telebook is a fictionalized version of the author's e-book as the story was
written long before his arrival in 1951.)
Question 7. Did Margie like the printed book? Why not?
Answer: Margie was really excited to see the 'real' book Tommy
was in, as opposed to the tale books that both were used to reading. It was
such a novelty that he recorded in his diary. As she turned the yellow and
critique pages of the book with Tommy, she found it quite fascinating, in
contrast to Tommy, who found it useless. In fact, she was really reluctant to
stop reading the book and study it. She wanted to read the book again after
school.
Question 8. Where was Margie's school? Did he have any
classmates?
Ans: Margie's school was a room next to her bedroom in her
house. No, he had no classmates as his school was a customized school,
specially set up for him according to his level and needs.
Question 9. What kind of teachers did Margie and Tommy have? How
did they differ from the teachers in the book?
Ans: Margie and Tommy had mechanical teachers, who were big
and dark and ugly, with a big screen on which all the lessons were shown and
questions were asked. There was a slot where they had to give homework and test
papers and the mechanical teacher calculated the marks in no time. Margie and
Tommy's teachers differed from the teachers in the book because the teachers in
the book were men and not mechanical teachers.
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