Footprints ch09 Bholi - CBSE Revision Notes
CBSE Class 10 English Language and Literature
Revision Notes
Chapter 9
Bholi
Revision Notes
Chapter 9
Bholi
- A Girl Sulekha called Bholi youngest daughter of number dar Ramlal.
- An Accident made her a backward child (10month old) and had pox marks on body (when 2 years old).
- She spokes first time (when 5 year old) and stammered.
- Parents did not care for her.
- Primary school opened (She was 7 year old).
- People did not want to marry educated girl.
- But she was sent to the school.
- Meeting with a kind hearted lady teacher.
- The teacher encouraged her to speak.
- She hoped for a new life.
- Years passed village became a small town.
- Bishamber nath a rich grocer was ready to marry Bholi.
- Marriage ceremony with, pomp and slender Bishmbhar Nath.
- He saw the pox marks on Bholi’s face.
- Demanded for thousands to marry her in the name of dowry.
- Ramlal requested him to marry his daughter and gave him the money with great difficulty.
- But now Bholi refused to marry him.
- First time she did not stammer and said “I can marry with a man of the age same to my father, who is even a lame but can’t marry with a greedy man and conceptive coward just for the sake of your izzat.
- People whispered.
- Bholi answered them smartly.
- Ramlal was tensed.
- Bholi asked him to not to worry about her & said “ I will teach in the school and serve both of you (parents) in your old age.”