CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -If he sold the sapphire to the jeweler, he would be able to buy firewood and finish his play. The other sapphire is sent to a little matchgirl whose matches have fallen into the gutter. If she does not bring home some money, her father would beat her.

Detailed explanation-2: -The prince sent the sapphires for the playwright so that he could finish a play for the director of the theatre in time. The princes sent his second sapphire to a poor girl. Her matches had fallen into the gutter. She was afraid that her father would beat her for this loss.

Detailed explanation-3: -Answer: The Happy Prince sent the sapphires for two people: the young writer across the city and the matchgirl. The young writer was trying to finish a play for the Director of the Theatre. However, he was too cold to write anymore, there was no fire in the grate and hunger had made him faint.

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer: The Happy Prince sends a ruby for the seamstress because she was poor and her son was ill with fever.

Detailed explanation-5: -She was very poor. So he said to the swallow to take out another sapphire from his eyes and give it to her so that her father didn’t beat her.