Question

"what exhilarating madness".what is the madness being refferred to?english novel helen keller ch 12

Answer 1

after her visit to boston, helen spent every winter in the north. she once spent her  winters in new england, amidst frozen takes and snow fields, and it was there that she had her first experience of tobongganing. she refers to the experience of sliding on a toboggan as exhilarating madness. the sheer joy that she felt, while sliding downward from a slope, across the frozen lake,was akin to the madness of the freedom, as the seemed to the mingle which the wind, free from the bounds of the earth.