Important question of the novel 'The Story Of My Life'....Class 10th
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2 questions are given below :
describe Ms. Sullivan's Teaching Methods ??
what are Helen's opinions about examinations ??
1. How was writing her autobiography a challenging task for Helen?
It is quite true writing one’s autobiography is quite a challenging task. Usually when one decides to write one’s autobiography one is quite mature. It is really very difficult to remember the childhood experiences with the same objectivity as they must have happened in the past. Besides, the adult age experience dim the clarity of the experiences of childhood and youth. Besides, the experiences of adulthood replace many important memories of childhood. And some of the very important experiences are likely to be forgotten. One is not able to miss some of the very important experiences of the childhood and youth. That’s why Helen felt the formidability of writing her own autobiography.
2.Why does Helen start doubting her thoughts after the Frost King incident?
The controversy concerning 'The Frost King' was an agonizing experience in Helen's life. Helen was charged with plagiarism. It was said that Helen had copied the theme of her story from 'Frost Fairies', by Miss Margaret T. Cabby. Even Mr. Anagnos, the director of Perkins Institute doubted Helen. After the incident Helen started doubting her thoughts. She lost confidence in her thought process and shuddered to write anything. She began believing every thought she thought could be any writer’s thought who she might have read in the past. However, Miss Sullivan stood by her and helped her reclaim her lost confidence. She encouraged her to write for the Youth's Companion a brief account of my life. Gradually, Helen came out the shadows of the sad experience of the Frost King episode.
3. What does Helen mean by the term tree friend? What special bond she shares with them?
Helen loved spending time in the countryside. Since her early childhood Helen had been quite close to nature. Before the advent of her angelic teacher, Miss Sullivan in her life, nature was her sole solace. Helen loved to be in company of nature. She had many tree-friends. One of them was a colossal oak. She often visited the spot where it stood majestically with her friends. It was believed it was thousand years old.
Helen had another tree friend. It was an ordinary tree. One afternoon, a thunderstorm felled it. Helen felt very sad to feel her friend fallen on the ground.
4. Character-sketch of Sarah Fuller in novel The Story of My Life
The Judgement Day is the imagined day at the end of the world when God will judge everyone who has lived. According to each human soul’s deeds, God will grant immortality or condemnation. The poet’s friend will achieve immortality through God on the Judgement Day. He will feel extremely elated and joyous. He will also feel grateful to Shakespeare, his friend for having preserved memory of his noble deeds in the rhyme from one generation to another, thus keeping his friend alive until the Judgement Day.
5. What role did books play in Helen's life? Name a few of her favorite books and writers.
Helen plays a glowing panegyric to books and the enlightening role they played in her otherwise dark life. in chapter 21 of her novel ‘The Story of My Life’ she shares with the audience the deep influence she had from the books since her childhood. We come to know she read her first connected story in May, 1887, when she was seven years old. The first book that fascinated her imagination was the story of "Little Lord Fauntleroy." Afterwards she read many books such as "Greek Heroes," La Fontaine's "Fables," Hawthorne's "Wonder Book," "Bible Stories," Lamb's "Tales from Shakespeare," "A Child's History of England" by Dickens, "The Arabian Nights," "The Swiss Family Robinson," "The Pilgrim's Progress," "Robinson Crusoe," "Little Women," and "Heidi,". She tells the readers how the Greek stories thrilled her more than the Bible stories; but as she grew old she found the stories in the Bible no less glorious. Then she shares with us her love for Shakespeare. She called books her friends. She also tells us her favourite authors, writers and poets among which were: Carlyle for his ruggedness and scorn of shams; Wordsworth, who teaches the oneness of man and nature; Hood for his surprises, Herrick for quaintness and the palpable scent of lily and rose in his verses; Whittier for his enthusiasms and moral rectitude, and Mark Twain for his joviality and vivacity.
She says Literature was her Utopia. No barrier of the senses shut her out from the sweet, gracious discourse of her book-friends. They talked to her without embarrassment or awkwardness.