Summary Class 9 The Fun They Had | NCERT Beehive

Chapter-1 The Fun They Had Author- Isaac Asimov


Introduction-:
▪ Story has two main characters and two side characters
▪ Main- Margie and Tommy
▪ Side- Mrs. Jones (Margie’s Mother) and County Inspector
▪ Story started on the day of 17 May, 2157
▪ It is based on comparison between Present school and
Future School


Margie-:
▪ She was 11 years old
▪ She hated school and specially Geography subject
▪ She scores worse and worse in Geography so his mother
called County Inspector
▪ Her school room was next to her bedroom
▪ Her mother’s name was Mrs. Jones
▪ She needs to submit her homework in a Punch Code


County Inspector-:
▪ He was a mechanical robot who fixes robo-teachers
▪ He was Red in color and Round in shape
▪ He gave Margie an apple
▪ He patted her head twice
▪ He took 1 hour to repair “Geography section” of Margie’s
robo-teacher
▪ He also took Tommy’s robo-teacher for a month to fix his
History section