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NCERT Solutions Poorvi Chapter 2 Somebody's Mother — Let us write

Book page 80 Updated on2026-09-05

Q1.
Write a diary entry of a day you helped someone in need. Remember to include the following points while writing it: Start with a sentence describing the day. Mention whom you helped. Explain the situation in which the other person needed help. Add the place and time of the day when the situation arose. Describe how you helped the other person. Describe the reaction of the person you helped. Mention how you felt during and after helping the person. Conclude by mentioning why you would do something like this again. You may begin like this: 26 April 20xx, Saturday, 8:00 p.m. Dear Diary, Today, I feel was a special day...
Answer

What makes a diary entry different from a story. A diary is written to yourself, at night, about a day that has just ended. So it is written in the first person and the past tense, it may admit things you would not tell others, and it reflects rather than merely reports. Keep the date, day and time on top, and end with a thought rather than an event.

Model answer

26 April 20XX, Saturday                    8:00 p.m.

Dear Diary,

Today, I feel, was a special day — not because anything big happened, but because of ten minutes near the Sector 12 bus stop.

I was coming back from cricket practice at about half past five. There was an old gentleman standing at the edge of the road with a walking stick in one hand and two full cloth bags in the other. The evening traffic was heavy and nobody was slowing down for him. He had been standing there long enough for the vegetable seller to notice, because she called out to him to be careful.

I put my bat down beside the vegetable cart, took one bag from him, and asked whether I could walk with him. We waited for a gap and crossed together. He walked far more slowly than I expected, and halfway across I understood how frightening a road must be when you cannot hurry. I carried the bag up to his gate, which was two lanes away.

He did not say very much. He asked my name and which school I went to, and then he said, “God bless you, beta,” and stood at his gate until I had turned the corner. That was somehow better than a long thank you.

While I was crossing I was actually nervous — I kept watching the scooters. Afterwards I felt quiet and glad. I did not tell anyone at home, and I still feel good about it, which I think means the good feeling was not about being praised.

I would do this again, and not only because he needed help. My own grandfather walks with a stick in Ranchi, and I am not there. I hope some boy on that road does for him what I did today.

Goodnight,
Aarav

Notice how the model covers every required point without listing them: the day (first line), the person (an old gentleman), the situation (heavy traffic, stick, bags), place and time (Sector 12 bus stop, 5:30 p.m.), what was done (carried a bag, crossed with him, walked to his gate), his reaction (“God bless you, beta”), the writer's own feelings during and after (nervous, then quietly glad), and the reason for doing it again (his grandfather). Weaving them into a story is always better than answering them one by one.
Tip: the last paragraph of the model borrows the poem's own logic — the boy in Somebody's Mother also ends by thinking of his own mother. Letting the text you are studying shape your writing is a legitimate and impressive thing to do.
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