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2. ABOUT
THE CHAPTER
The chapter from “An Alien Hand”

3. ABOUT
CHANDNI
► In Almora a old man lived with their goats. He
known as Abbu Khan.
► He Love their goats as their own child,he
give names to their goats like Kalua, Moongia
or Gujri
► Very often at night one of the goats would
pull and pull at the string till it broke
loose,and go into the hills where the old wolf
live who eats the goats who came into the
hill.

4. ► Then his no goats are left,after someday he bought a young
goat. The new goat was very pretty. She was white as snow,
and had two little horns on her little head, and a pair of red
eyesHe thought, “A young goat will stay with me much
longer. She will soon begin to love me as well as the food I
give her every day. She will never want to go to the hills.”
► One day the young goat said to Abbu Khan ““Dear Abbu
Khan,” ,“let me go to the hills, please. If I stay on in your
compound, I’ll die.”
► Abbu Khan asked the goat “Why you want to go to the
hills,Do you don’t like the food” and tell the story of Kalua
at fiftieth time.
► The Abbu Khan get annoyed by the young goat and said to
the her “You have to live in my small hut now” but same
night the young goat broke the window and go away to the
hills.

5. ► She reached to the hills, It seemed to her that the old hills
were standing in a row to welcome her. She felt like a child
meeting her parents after years of separation. Wherever she
went, the tall grass rose to embrace her, the flowers
bloomed to amuse her and the wind sang an endless song
of welcome.
► Then a strange voice coming from bushes, the strange
voice of the old wolf ,then the old wolf come out from the
bushes and fight with the wolf. The first rays of the sun saw
Chandni lying on the ground. She was completely soaked in
blood.
► The small birds debating “who is the winner” most of the
said “Wolf,of course…”. A wise old bird declaimed with
confidence, “Chandni is the winner.”

6. MORAL OF THE STORY
Moral of the story

7. MORAL OF THE STORY
► This story is written by Zakir Hussain and
gives the moral that death is better than
slavery.This story tells us about a brave
she-goat whose name was Chandi and
how she died in order to save her
freedom.It is better to die with dignity than
to live without honour and freedom.The
main objective of this chapter is to give
the children the teaching that 'Death is
better than slavery'.This story gives high
morals to us.

8. EXERCISE
Questions from book An Alien Hand of
Chandni

9. COMPREHENSION CHECK(P-45)
1. Why did Abbu Khan’s goats want to run
away? What happened to them in the hills?
2. Abbu Khan said, “No more goats in my
house ever again.” Then he changed his
mind. Why?
3. Why did he buy a young goat?

10. ANWER
COMPREHENSION CHECK(P-45)
1. Abbu Khan’s goats would run away because they
hated being tied with strings and they loved their
freedom. In the hills, they would be attacked and
killed by an old wolf.
2. He changed his mind because he was terribly lonely
and could not do without his pets.
3. He bought a young goat as he thought it would stay
with him much longer. It would begin to love him as
well as the food he would give her everyday, and

11. COMPREHENSION CHECK(P-49)
1. Why did Chandni hate the rope round her neck?
2. “Now Abbu Khan understood Chandni’s problem...”
What was Chandni’s problem?
3. Abbu Khan pushed Chandni into a small hut. This
shows that he
(i) was cruel.
(ii) loved her and wanted to save her life.
(iii) was selfish.

12. ANSWERS
1.Chandni hated the rope around her neck as it
would not let her go any further. She wanted to run
across the green fields towards the hills. However,
the rope around her neck stopped her from doing
so. It restricted her freedom.
2. Chandni wanted her freedom. She wished to go
to the hills. She felt that if she stayed on in Abbu
Khan’s compound, she would die.
3. This shows that he loved her and wanted to save
her life.

13. COMPREHENSION CHECK(P-51)
1. Why did Chandni refuse to join the group of
wild goats?
2. Chandni fought the wolf because she
(i) was stronger than the wolf.
(ii) hated the wolf.
(iii) had to retain her freedom at all costs.

14. ANSWERS
1.Chandni refused to join the group of wild goats
because she wanted to enjoy her new freedom all by
herself.
2.Chandni fought the wolf because she had to retain
her freedom at all costs.

15. EXERCISE
1. Why did the wise old bird say, “Chandni is the
winner”?
2. “Death in an open field is better than life in a
small hut,” Chandni said to herself. Was it the right
decision? Give reasons for your answer.
3. Freedom is life. Discuss this with reference to
‘Chandni’ and ‘I Want Something in a Cage’.

16. ANSWERS
1.The wise old bird said that Chandni was the winner because
Chandni had the courage to face the wolf, and had fought on
till the end. She could have run away at the slightest hint of
the presence of the wolf. However, she decided to stay there
and stood firm on her legs. According to the author, she
looked like a brave soldier ready to fight a treacherous
enemy. She put up a good fight, which went on all through
the night. Even though she died at the end, she was truly the
winner.

17. 2. It was the right decision. Freedom involves taking a lot of
risks. It requires one to be brave and to be ready to face any
difficulty, any circumstance. On detecting the wolf, chandni
could have gone back to abbu khan. However, for her,
freedom was more valuable than life. She decided to fight the
wolf to retain her freedom, telling herself that success or
failure was a matter of chance, and that one must put up a
good fight. She fought with all her strength, and even though
she did not win the fight, she was the true winner. If she had
remained with abbu khan, she would have always been tied
up. There, she might have lived longer, but would have
ultimately died in bondage.

18. ► 3. Freedom is life. Living in bondage is as good as being
dead. Everyone craves for his/her freedom—humans, birds
and animals. The value of freedom is the theme of the
stories ‘I Want Something in a Cage’ and ‘Chandni’. In the
former, the man, who had been a prisoner for ten years,
freed the doves because he could identify with the birds in
the cage and their desire to fly. In the latter, the goats left
Abbu Khan one by one because their desire to roam freely
in the hills was stronger than their fear of the wolf that lived
in those hills. Chandni’s decision to fight the wolf instead
of going back to the safety of Abbu Khan’s compound
showed that she considered freedom to be invaluable. For
her death in an open field was far better than life in a small
hut. This story shows that freedom requires one to be
brave, and to be ready to face any difficulty, any
circumstance. Even if the free life is short lived, it is better
than a long life in captivity.

19. PICTURES FROM
CHAPTER
PHOTOS FROM CHAPTER 7 Chandni