Write your views about Geoff after your reading the story ‘Going Places’.

The author has developed his story by involving only one family. Sophie had one elder brother Geoff and another younger one Derek. Her parents were quite caring and helpful to them at every stage of life.

Geoff was almost grown up. It was three years now he passed schools and was working hard as an apprentice mechanic. He was youth who had a determination to become a mechanical expert. He daily travelled to the other side of the city for his training. He enjoyed doing his work silently. His silence troubled Sophie and she had to prize out words from him like stones from the ground. His silence compelled Sophie to guess him to be somewhere else in the world he never spoke about. She loved and admired Geoff always.

Geoff was “quiet youth and didn’t easily make new friends”. She knew he would take her to all such unknown places and people for which she was impatient, though their father forbade. Like her brother, she liked his friendly groups and hoped to be admitted to that. Geoff not only supported Sophie blindly before their parents but he was the first to share her secrets. Though Geoff hardly believed the truth without verifying her stories.