CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Kalam’s father believed in Freedom of thought. Jainulabdeen Marakayar was DR. APJ Abdul kalam’s father.

Detailed explanation-2: -Abdul Kalam inherited honesty and self-discipline from his father and faith in goodness and kindness from his mother.

Detailed explanation-3: -The belief in the existence of a divine power grew in Kalam through his father’s moralistic teachings. Jainulabdeen teachings helped Kalam to overcome confusion, misery, melancholy, failure and guided him to his true place.

Detailed explanation-4: -His father Jainulabdeen was a boat owner and imam of a local mosque; his mother Ashiamma was a housewife. His father owned a ferry that took Hindu pilgrims back and forth between Rameswaram and the now uninhabited Dhanushkodi. Kalam was the youngest of four brothers and one sister in his family.

Detailed explanation-5: -Kalam’s father was a simple self-disciplined man. He neither had formal education nor much wealth and he avoided all inessential comforts and luxuries.