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Class 9 Reading Comprehension

Cartoons are able to succinctly convey ideas that often take multiple newspaper columns to express. While cartoons seem simple, creating good ones requires hard work, training, and a sense of humor. Even celebrated cartoonists like R.K. Laxman note that making cartoons is difficult and that he spends over six hours scanning news sources before coming up with ideas. While some skills can be learned, established cartoonists believe no school can truly teach someone to create good cartoons. It takes innate creativity and a sense of humor, qualities one may not inherently possess.

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Class 9 Reading Comprehension

Cartoons are able to succinctly convey ideas that often take multiple newspaper columns to express. While cartoons seem simple, creating good ones requires hard work, training, and a sense of humor. Even celebrated cartoonists like R.K. Laxman note that making cartoons is difficult and that he spends over six hours scanning news sources before coming up with ideas. While some skills can be learned, established cartoonists believe no school can truly teach someone to create good cartoons. It takes innate creativity and a sense of humor, qualities one may not inherently possess.

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What writers struggle to express through numerous newspaper columns, the cartoon manages in a

pointed one-liner. Little wonder then, that the first thing most of us like to see when we pick up a
newspaper is the cartoon. Simple though it may seem,making a cartoon is an art that requires a
combination of hard work, training and a good sense of humour. Cartoonists say that the cartoons
that make us laugh the most are in fact the cartoons that are hardest to make. Even celebrated
cartoonists like R.K.Laxman admit that making a cartoon is not a piece of cake. Laxman says he has
to wait for over six hours, which includes spending a lot of time scanning newspapers and television
channels before any idea strikes him.

So how does one become a cartoonist? Which of us has the talent to make it? How can we master
the rib-tickling strokes and the witty one-liners? How can we make people smile or laugh? There are
few colleges or schools for cartoonists. Most cartoonists come from art colleges, while some learn
the craft on their own. Most established cartoonists are of the view that no institute can teach you
to make a cartoon. “You can pick up the craft, you may learn to sketch and draw in institutes, but no
one can teach anyone how to make a good cartoon,” says Uday Shanker, a cartoonist with
Navbharat Times. While basics, like drawing and sketching can be learnt in an art college, and are
important skills, these alone, do not make a good cartoonist. Because it’s a question of one’s
creativity and sense of humour; two qualities one simply may not have. The advice established
cartoonists give is that just because you can sketch, don’t take it for granted that you will become a
cartoonist.
Read the questions given below and write the option you consider the most appropriate in your
answer sheet.

Q1: What, according to Laxman, is the challenge in creating a good cartoon?

(i) Waiting for the right thought (ii) Browsing newspapers to emerge and television.
(iii) getting the right kind of (IV) good drawing and sketching training skills.

Q2: Which of these words BEST describes this passage?

(i) Humorous (ii) technical (iii) challenging (iv) informative

Q3: Of the many qualities that cartoonists should have, which of the following is not referred to
directly but can be inferred from the passage?

(i) Knowledge of current (ii) Knowledge of educational technologies institutions.


(iii) Knowledge of news and
(iv) Knowledge of different current affairs languages.

Q4: According to the passage, which group of people is of the opinion that one cannot learn to make
a cartoon in institutions?
(i) Many struggling writers. (ii) highly creative artists. (iii) Well-respected cartoonist. (iv) all
newspaper editors.

Q5: “Don’t take it for granted that you will become a cartoonist.” Choose the option that is closest in
meaning to the sentence.
(i) Don’t assume that you will (ii) Don’t hope that you will become a cartoonist become a cartoonist.
(iii) Don’t believe that you will (IV) Don’t imagine that you will become a cartoonist become a
cartoonist.

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