Detailed Summary: The Chair | Chapter Notes For Class 6 PDF Download

Key Points of the Story

• Mario is a boy who likes to show off that he has lots of friends.
• His grandfather makes a bet with him for a fruit chaat, saying most of those "friends" are not real friends.
• The grandfather gives Mario an invisible chair that magically reveals his true friends.
• Mario struggles to sit on the chair, falling multiple times, while some of his classmates laugh at him.
• Finally, Mario manages to sit on the chair when three friends, Guneet, Asma, and Deepa, hold him up.
• These three friends are his real friends because they care about him and don’t make fun of him.
• Mario and his three friends visit his grandfather and continue using the "magic chair test" to find true friends.

Detailed Summary

Mario was a boy who loved to brag about how many friends he had at school. He always talked about how popular and friendly he was. One day, his grandfather heard him boasting and made a bet. He said, “I bet you a fruit chaat that you don’t have as many real friends as you think. Some of them might just be classmates, not real friends.” Mario wanted to prove his grandfather wrong, but he didn’t know how to figure out who his true friends were. So, he asked his grandfather for help. Grandpa gave him an invisible chair and said, “If you can sit on this chair at school, you will know who your real friends are.”

Mario took the invisible chair to school, feeling excited. At break time, he asked everyone to form a circle around him and said he was going to show them something amazing. Mario tried to sit on the invisible chair, but since he couldn’t see it, he missed and fell to the ground. His classmates laughed at him. Mario tried again, saying it was just a small mistake, but he fell again. However, Mario didn’t give up. After a few more tries, he finally managed to sit on the chair and didn’t fall. To his surprise, he was floating in mid-air! Then Mario saw the magic his grandfather had told him about. He noticed that three of his true friends Guneet, Asma, and Deepa were holding him up so he wouldn’t fall. 

These friends were the ones who cared for him, while the others just laughed and didn’t help. Mario understood that real friends are the ones who help and support you when you need it most. Later, Mario and his true friends went to visit his grandfather. Mario told him he had won the bet, and they spent the evening enjoying stories and eating fruit chaat together. From then on, they used the invisible chair to see who their real friends were. Whoever helped them became friends for life. Mario learned that true friends care about you, not just when things are fun, but also when things are tough.

Theme

The story is about true friendship and understanding who your real friends are.

Message

The message is that true friends are those who help and support you, especially in difficult times. They don’t laugh at your mistakes or take advantage of your bad luck. Instead, they help and support you when you need it the most. The story teaches that having a few genuine friends is much more valuable than having many friends who don’t truly care.

Difficult Words

• Challenges: Difficult situations or tasks that require effort to overcome.
• Advantage: A benefit or gain from something, often in an unfair way.
• Genuine: Real, sincere, or true; not fake.
• Support: To help or assist someone, especially during tough times.
• Valuable: Worth a lot, important, or useful.
• Stand by: To remain loyal to someone, especially when they need help.
• Mistakes: Errors or wrong actions.
• Attic: a storage space in a house just under the roof
• Determined: firm in decision
• Amazing: very surprising