The two accounts that you read above are based in two distant cultures. What is the commonality of theme found in both of them?
Both the accounts are shown by two women from socially marginalized sections in two distant cultures of the world. In first part author shows the racism faced by her as a Native American in her school. And in the other part it shows the untouchability faced by the author in India.
They both were following the different cultures. They both showed all the sufferings that they had faced due to their community. Zitkala’s hair was shingled at the behest of Europeans who consider themselves superior to the Native American. But in the other context Bama suffered from untouchability as she was belonged from lower caste. She had seen that lower caste people were not even allowed to touch people who belonged from upper castes.
Bama’s experience is that of a victim of the caste system. What kind of discrimination does Zitkala-Sa’s experience depict? What are their responses to their respective situations?
It may take a long time for oppression to be resisted, but the seeds of rebellion are sowed early in life. Do you agree that injustice in any form cannot escape being noticed even by children?
Who is the Tiger King? Why does he get that name?
Who was Dr Sadao? Where was his house?
Who is Jo? How does she respond to her father’s story-telling?
What does the third level refers to?
‘The world’s geological history is trapped in Antarctica.’ How is the study of this region useful to us?
What kind of a person was Evans?
What are Geoff Green’s reasons for including high school students in the Students on Ice expedition?
What were the precautions taken for the smooth conduct of the examination?
‘Take care of the small things and the big things will take care of themselves.’ What is the relevance of this statement in the context of the Antarcticenvironment?
Will the exam now go as scheduled?
Dr Sadao was compelled by his duty as a doctor to help the enemy soldier. What made Hana, his wife, sympathetic to him in the face of open defiance from the domestic staff?
What kind of a person was Evans?
Do you see an intersection of time and space in the story?
‘Take care of the small things and the big things will take care of themselves.’ What is the relevance of this statement in the context of the Antarcticenvironment?
Do you think the doctor’s final solution to the problem was the best possible one in the circumstances?
What is your stance regarding the two endings to the Roger Skunk story?
What explains the attitude of the General in the matter of the enemy soldier? Was it human consideration, lack of national loyalty, dereliction of duty or simply self-absorption?
Where did Evans go?
What will now happen to the astrologer? Do you think the prophecy was indisputably disproved?
Who was Dr Sadao? Where was his house?
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