NCERT Solutions for Class 9th English Chapter 4 Vitamin-M
Updated on 2026-09-08
About this chapter
Vitamin-M (prose, pages 97–125) is built on one long irony. Ravi’s mother wants a memory pill for “old people”; by the last page Grandpa is saying, “My daughter needs some Vitamin-M, I think—for her memory,” because she has forgotten his birthday although she herself “circled the date in red” on the calendar at the beginning of the year. Grandpa is seventy-five, a retired lawyer, and has been moved out of “his small brick house in town” into a “poky little flat” after he slipped in the garden and “lain outside all night”. What he resents is not the care but the loss of standing: “I’ve been looking after myself for the better part of my seventy-five years… and then you think you have the right to forbid me to go out on my own!” The middle of the story is farce. Ravi shadows Grandpa through
- Vitamin-M (prose)
- I Cannot Remember My Mother (poem)
Exercises
- Vitamin-M (prose) — Reflect and Respond Page 97–98
- Vitamin-M (prose) — Check Your Understanding Page 102
- Vitamin-M (prose) — Check Your Understanding Page 106–107
- Vitamin-M (prose) — Check Your Understanding Page 109
- Vitamin-M (prose) — Critical Reflection Page 109–111
- Vitamin-M (prose) — Vocabulary and Structures in Context Page 111–116
- Vitamin-M (prose) — Listen and Respond Page 116–117
- Vitamin-M (prose) — Speaking Activity Page 117–118
- Vitamin-M (prose) — Writing Task Page 119
- Vitamin-M (prose) — Learning Beyond the Text Page 119–125
- I Cannot Remember My Mother (poem) — Reflect and Respond Page 126
- I Cannot Remember My Mother (poem) — Check Your Understanding Page 127–129
- I Cannot Remember My Mother (poem) — Critical Reflection Page 129–131
- I Cannot Remember My Mother (poem) — Vocabulary in Context Page 131–133
- I Cannot Remember My Mother (poem) — Listen and Respond Page 133–134
- I Cannot Remember My Mother (poem) — Speaking Activity Page 134
- I Cannot Remember My Mother (poem) — Writing Task Page 135
- I Cannot Remember My Mother (poem) — Learning Beyond the Text Page 135–136