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NCERT Solutions for Class 4th English Chapter 5 B. Think and Discuss — Let us Think

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Q1.
Did the animals do the right thing in the end? Why do you think so?
Answer

Yes, the animals did the right thing in the end.

Here is the reason, from the story. Once they felt ashamed, they did not just feel sorry and sit quietly. They stopped eating the hillock grass and went to find food elsewhere in the forest. Some of them even brought fresh leaves for the stag. Because of this, the grass grew back and “the old stag had enough food once again”. Their action is what helped him recover.

Two things make their act a good one:

  • They owned up to the mistake instead of blaming each other.
  • They repaired the harm they had done, and did not repeat it.
Another view is also fair: You may say they were right only at the end, and wrong before that. That is true and defensible. A good friend would not have eaten a sick friend’s food in the first place. The best answer says both: they did wrong first, but they put it right, and putting it right is the right thing to do.
The idea behind it: Everybody makes mistakes. What decides whether we are good friends is what we do after we see the mistake.
Q2.
What would happen to the green plants around us if each one of us thought only of our own needs?
Answer

The green plants would soon disappear, just like the grass on the hillock.

Think of what happens step by step:

  1. Each person takes only a little — but there are very many of us.
  2. Plants need time, water and sunlight to grow back. They cannot grow that fast.
  3. So more is taken away each day than grows back.
  4. Soon the ground is bare.

Then everyone loses something:

  • no shade in the hot months;
  • no fruit, no flowers, no tender grass;
  • animals and birds lose their food and their homes;
  • the air becomes less fresh, because plants give us clean air.
Why thinking only of ourselves fails: The stag’s friends were not cruel. Each one just took a mouthful. The harm came from everyone taking at the same time and nobody thinking about tomorrow. That is exactly what the book means by “Nature has enough for everybody. But we need to use its resources wisely.”
Sample answer you can say in class: If each of us thought only of ourselves, the plants near us would soon be gone. People would pluck flowers, break branches and cut trees whenever they wished. There would be no shade and no fruit left. Birds would lose their nests. Nature has enough for all of us, but only if we take what we need and leave the rest to grow.
Try this: Look at one tree near your home for a week. Count how many creatures use it — birds, squirrels, ants, insects. That one tree feeds far more than one family.
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