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?
Zitkala-sa was the victim of racial prejudice. Zitkala-sa was the student of European boarding school where all the staff was unfriendly and bitter towards her. She was a local tribe. She had long hair on which she had proud but her was shingled. She struggled to resist this but she failed and forcefully they cut her hairs. On the contrary, Bama faced discrimination with caste and also untochability so she decided to kill germs of this discrimination with the light of education. She thought lower caste can come up from this thinking and discrimination only by study and progress. Therefore both of them tried in their ways to protest against the injustice.
The two accounts that you read above are based in two distant cultures. What is the commonality of theme found in both of them?
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?
How does Jo want the story to end and why?
What do you infer from Sam’s letter to Charley?
Philately helps keep the past alive. Discuss other ways in which this is done. What do you think of the human tendency to constantly move between the past, the present and the future?
What are Geoff Green’s reasons for including high school students in the Students on Ice expedition?
What will Dr Sadao and his wife do with the man?
Who was Dr Sadao? Where was his house?
Will the exam now go as scheduled?
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?
What did the royal infant grow up to be?
Does the story remind you of ‘Birth’ by A. J. Cronin that you read in Snapshots last year? What are the similarities?