Bihar Board Class 11th के English Book ( RAINBOW PART -01) के Poetry Section का Chapter - 9 ( VOICE OF THE UNWANTED GIRL ) जो Sujata Bhatt के द्वारा लिखा गया है । तो इस पोस्ट में हमलोग vioce of the unwanted girl ka Summary and Question Answer देखने वाले हैं 11th Class English Chapter 9 Question Answer Bihar Board
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9. VOICE OF THE UNWANTED GIRL
Word Meaning
Anthology - (n) ऐनथोलॉजि - गद्य-पद्य संग्रह
Exhibits - (v) इग्जिबिट्स - प्रदर्शित करता है।
Sensitivity - (n) सेन्सटिविटी - भावुकता - अतिसंवेदनशीलता
Concern - (n) कनसर्न - महत्व और दिलचस्पी का विषय
Inhumanity - (n) इनह्यूमैनिटि - अमानवीयता / क्रूर व्यवहार
Horror - (n) हॉरर - डरावना/सत्रास
Foeticide - (n) फ़ेटिसाइड - भ्रूण-हत्या उच्चारित
Articulate - (adj) आरटिकुलेट
Slush (n) स्लश - गंदा पिघला बर्फ
Sulking (v) सल्कींग - गुस्से में बहना
Clutched - (n) क्लच्ड् - पकड़ा
Except - (conj) एक्सेप्ट - सिवाय / अलावा
Autopsy room (phr) - ऑटोप्सी रूम - शव गृह
Search (v) सर्च - पता लगाना
Measured - (v) मेजर्ड - मापना
Sliced (n) स्लाइस्ड - पतला टुकड़ा
Pomegranate - (n) पोमग्रानेट - अनार
Put on - (phr) पुट ऑन - पहनना
Stem - (n) स्टेम - तना
Parijatak - (n) पारिजातक - एक फूल का पौधा (परिजात)
Blossom (v) ब्लॉसम - खिलना
Smile - (adj) स्माइल - मुस्कान
Flower (n) फ्लॉवर- फूल
Butterfly (n) बटरफ्लाई - तितली
Unspeakable - (adj) अनस्पिकेबल - अशोभनीय बात
Will - (adj) वील - इच्छा
Formaldehyde - (n) फॉर्मलडिहाईड - एक तीखी रंगहीन गैस
Vioce of the unwanted girl Summary in English :-
Summary Voice of the Unwanted Girl is taken from Sujata Bhatt's anthology of poems 'My Mother's Way of Wearing a Sari'. In the poem she exhibits her concern with unborn young she-baby. The inhumanity and horror of female foeticide is wonderfully articulated through a victim girl-child. An unborn girl-child questions patriarchy and demands for a world in which gender discrimination is done away with. It lends pathos to the poem and makes the reader ponder over the valent social bias against a girl-child.
The unborn girl is the second daughter of her mother. So, she is cursed by her mother. She would have taxed her mother so she wants to get rid of her. She consults a doctor. The doctor injects poison into the body of the unborn child. She dies. While she was on the death bed, she listened to the crazy crowd outside on the street. After her death, her mother puts on a fresh grass-green sari and decorates her hair with parijatak flowers. The unwanted girl remembers the feel of neon and the pungant smell of formaldehyde gas.
Her only fault is that she is a female child. Now a days the craze of infanticide is very popular in so called cultured families.
Vioce of the unwanted girl Summary in Hindi:-
सारांश - Voice of The Unwanted Girl (अनचाहे लड़की की स्वर) 'सुजाता भट्ट' की चयनिका 'My Mother's Way of Wearing a Sari' (मेरी माँ की साड़ी पहनने का तरीका) से उद्धृत की गई है। इस कविता में कवयित्री का सामाजिक दृष्टिकोण प्रकट हुआ है। एक अनचाहे छोटी बालिका की भ्रूण हत्या की अमानवियता का डरावना चित्रण किया गया है। एक अजात बालिका विशेष रूप से प्रश्न करती है और माँग करती है कि लिंग भेद कब पृथ्वी समाप्त होगा। यह कविता दुःख और दर्द पैदा करती है। एक छोटी बालिका के प्रति प्रचलित सामाजिक दृष्टिकोण पर पाठकों को सोचने के लिए विवश करता है। अजात बालिका उसके माँ की दूसरी कन्या थी। अतः उसे अपनी माँ का अभिशाप प्राप्त हुआ। वह अपने माँ को तंग करती। अतः उसकी माँ उससे छुटकारा पाना चाहती थी, अतः एक डॉक्टर से सलाह करके अजात शिशु के शरीर में जहर की सुई लगवाकर उसे मार डाला। जब वह मौत के बिस्तर पर थी तब उसने सड़क पर लोगों के हल्लों की आवाज और मोटर का हार्न सुना था । उसकी मौत के बाद उसकी माँ ने एक नई हरी साड़ी पहनकर और पर्जाता फूलों से बालों का श्रृंगार किया। अनचाही बालिका नियोन एवं Formaldehyde गैस का सीधा एवं प्रायः निन्दापूर्ण गन्ध भी महसूस की। उसका एक मात्र दोष था कि वह एक स्त्री-शिशु थी। वर्तमान - में भ्रूण हत्या सभ्य परिवार में बहुत प्रचलित है।
EXERCISE
A. Work in small groups and discuss these questions :
Q. 1. How many brothers or sisters do you have ? Does the girl child in your family receive same kind of love and attention as the boy in the family ? If not, why ? Is it proper ?
Ans. We are three brothers and one sister. We all receive the same kind of love and attention equally. There is no discrimi- nation between a boy and a girl in my family. We all enjoy the same rights in the family.
Q. 2. You might have heard several cases of female foeticide ? Who, in your opinion, is responsible for this ?
Ans. Our society is responsible for this. In our society girl is considered a burden. The parents have to fight much for the marriage of the girl. Even after her good education very few young men are ready to marry a girl without dowry.
B. 1.1. Write T for true and F for false statements :
(b) The doctor was solely responsible for the heinous crime.
(c) The female foeticide took place in Bombay.
(d) Everybody loved the speaker.
(e) Mother loved pomegranate very much.
Ans. (a) F, (b) F, (c) T, (d) F, (e) F.
B. 1.2. Answer the following questions briefly :
Q. 1. Who is * T in the opening line?
Ans. The unwanted girl is 'I' in the opening line.
Q. 2. Who does the speaker address to ?
Ans. The speaker addresses to her mother.
Q. 3. What did the mother do to the speaker ?
Ans. The mother asked the doctor to kill the speaker.
Q. 4. What happened to the speaker ?
Ans. The mother entrusted the speaker to the doctor to kill her by injection.
Q. 5. What did the doctor tell the mother? How did it affect her?
Ans. The doctor told the mother that her second child would be a girl. It affected the mother very badly. She decided to kill her because she was an unwanted girl.
Q. 6. How did the mother dress up when she knew about her second girl child?
Ans. When the mother knew about her second girl child, she out on her grass-green sari, and decorated her hair with parijatak lossoms.
Q. 7. Do you find any evidence in the poem that shows the mother's lack of concern for her girl child?
Ans. There is no evidence in the poem about the mother's concern for her child. When the doctor told the pregnant mother that a girl child would be born, she requested the doctor to destroy the female child in the womb.
B. 2. Answer the following questions briefly :
Q. 1. Who does 'everyone' refer to in line 28 ? Why did everyone smile ?
Ans. The word 'everyone' in the line 28 refers to persons in general. Everyone includes the mother, the doctor and the persons who were only watching the incident. No one was ready to come forward to oppose this heinous crime. It is not God's will. It is a social evil.
Q. 2. How does the 'unwanted girl' question her mother's conscience?
Ans. The unwanted girl questions her mother's conscience because she had not objected to the female infanticide. The unborn girl was done away with because she happened to be the second girl-child of her parents.
Q. 3. What does the killed infant smell of ?
Ans. The killed infant smells of formaldehyde, a gas, with no colour and a strong smell, which when mixed with water is used to preserve things in a laboratory.
Q. 4. How many times has the verb 'look' been repeated in the poem? What effect does it have on you ?
Ans. The voice of the unwanted girl addresses the mother and complains about her collaboration in the infant foeticide. The repetition of the word 'look' gives a dramatic turn to the events as it invites our attention to the brutality and ruthlessness of the horror of female infanticide.
Q. 5. What does 'God's will' mean in line 44.
Ans. 'God's will' in line 44 of the poem refers to the fact that the killing of the unwanted girl by her mother is not the will of God. God loves all of his creation. There is no difference between a child in womb and an important man in society. All are equal before God. So, the unwanted girl says to her mother that her killing has been done against the will of God.
Q. 6. What does the speaker wish in the last two lines?
Ans. In the poem 'Voice of the Unwanted Girl' the last two lines of the poem are very pathetic. An infant is being killed by her mother in her womb. The child's soul is not being killed. She asks her mother to look at her. She asks her mother not to make difference between a girl-child and a boy-child. She tells her mother again and again to realise her great mistake. It indicates that her mother has committed a great crime by killing her. The last two lines indicate the social evil prevalent in the society. The girl condemns the social evil.
C.1. LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS :
Q. 1. Who, in your opinion, is responsible for the killing of the unborn female child-mother, doctor, society or all of them ?
Ans. The doctor, mother and society all are responsible for the killing of the unborn female child. The doctor examines a pregnant lady and makes it clear whether a male child is present in the womb or not. Not only this a doctor is always ready to kill
the female child in the womb, if he is asked to do so. So the responsibility for killing of the unborn female-child should be fixed on the doctor. The doctor should be punished.
The mother is also responsible for killing an unborn female child. In this poem the mother is responsible for killing the unwanted girl. This is a sin on the part of the mother. Morality does not allow one to do it.
Society is also not less responsible. Apart from the doctor and the mother other, members of the family and relations can check this crime. But they do not do so. So, the society is also responsible.
Q. 2. How will you react if you find that female foeticide is being committed before you ? Would you try to stop it or remain indifferent to it ?
Ans. If I find a female foeticide is being committed before me I would sharply react. I will try to check it because it is a crime. The government of India has framed punishable laws against the practice of infanticide. The doctor who predicts the sex of a child before birth by ultrasonography or the party who persuades the doctors to do so, both are punishable under the provisions of Indian law. In this situation I will not hesitate to take legal actions against the persons involved in this crime.
Q. 3. Describe the scene of autopsy room with all minute details. Have you ever been to an autopsy room?
Ans. In an autopsy room, the medical examination of a dead person is carried out to find out the cause of death. In the autopsy room, the unborn child in the womb was examined by the doctors and their assistants who knew that the mouth of the unborn child would not search for anything and her head would be measured and cut apart.
No, I have never been to an autopsy room, because in that room only a dead body and a doctor with nurses and attendents are allowed to enter.
Q. 4. Attempt a critical estimate of the poem.
Ans. Sujata Bhatt, the poetess, describes the doom of an unwanted girl in her poem 'Voice of the Unwanted Girl'. The girl is the second daughter of her mother. So, she is cursed by her mother. She taxes her mother. The mother wants to get rid of her. She consults a doctor, who seldom sticks to his professional ethics. The doctor injects poison into her body. The unborn female-child dies.
The unwanted girl expresses her agony in this poem. Her torture is immense. Her apathy is insurmountable. She has positive grievances against her mother. She dies before she flowers. While she was on the death-bed, she listened to the crazy crowd outside on the street of Mumbai. Her mother, out of jubilation, puts on a fresh grass-green sari and decorates her hair with parijatak flowers. The unwanted girl remembers nothing but the feel of neon and the pungent smell of formaldehyde gas.
The torture she is subjected to is inexplicable. Her only fault is that she is a female-child. The poem attacks the craze of female infanticide so popular in so-called cultured families.
Recently, the Government has framed punitive sections against the practice of infanticide. The doctor who predicts the sex of a child before birth by ultra-sonography or the party who persuades doctor to do so both are to be penalised under the provisions of the law. But despite legal provisions, people are inquistive about the sex of the child in the womb. It is highly pernicious.
The poetess being herself a lady takes up the problem of infanticide very seriously. The poem is an instance. The poetess in a highly poetic manner, depicts the sufferings of an unwanted girl. The use of scientific terminology heightens the effect of the poem.
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