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?
Even in today’s era in some parts of the country many people faces discrimination related to racism and their caste. Adults also have grown up seeing these types of things, the innocence of childhood doesn’t understand hatred and prejudice but when they see these type of things it affects the mind of small children. But it can be resist in their own simple ways.
In the chapter we read about the story of Zitkala-sa and Bama. In their childhood they had faced many sufferings related to discrimination of racism and untochability. Zitkala-sa told that about her first day which was “bitter cold”. It tells us about the weather but also about what she had suffered in boarding school. The European staff was unfriendly towards her and she had struggled against her hair being shingled was a “bitter” experience for her. On the other hand Bama faced untouchability. Bama walked on her brother’s footsteps to protest against the practice of untouchability through education. Therefore she studied hard to reach at the destination from where her caste wouldn’t matter and she will feel proud.
The two accounts that you read above are based in two distant cultures. What is the commonality of theme found in both of them?
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?
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?
How will the Maharaja prepare himself for the hundredth tiger which was supposed to decide his fate?
What did the royal infant grow up to be?
What will Dr Sadao and his wife do with the man?
Would Charley ever go back to the ticket counter on the third level to buy tickets to Galesburg for himself and his wife?
What will Dr Sadao do to get rid of the man?
Will Dr Sadao be arrested on the charge of harbouring an enemy?
There are moments in life when we have to make hard choices between our roles as private individuals and as citizens with a sense of national loyalty. Discuss with reference to the story you have just read.
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 are Geoff Green’s reasons for including high school students in the Students on Ice expedition?
How does Jo want the story to end and why?