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I:, How old do you think Amanda is? How do you know this? 1, , € Answer 1:, Amnada must have been about 9-10 years old. We can know this because she is a school going girl, , and her mother scolds her and gives her all usual instructions which are given to a 9 or 10 year old, girl., , Question 2:, , Who do you think is speaking to her?, & Answer 2:, , Her mother is speaking to her., , Question 3:, Why are Stanzas 2, 4 and 6 given in parenthesis?, & Answer 3:, , Stanzas 2, 4 and 6 are given in parenthesis, advice that she is being given by her, her mother and the child's thoughts are, , , , , , , , , the feelings of a young child about the, given in stanzas 1, 3 and 5. The scolding of, stanzas by the poet., , Question 4:, , Who is the speaker in Stanzas 2, 4 a you think this speaker is listening to the speaker in, Stanzas 1, 3,5, and 7? >, , # Answer 4: IWARI, , In stanzas 2, 4 and 6, the speaker is the , Amanda. No, she is not listening to her mother who ts, the speaker in stanzas 1, 3 and 5,She is lost in her own thoughts and dreams and doesn't listen to, what is being told to her., , Question 5:, What could Amanda do if she were a mermaid?, , €. Answer 5:, If Amanda were a mermaid, then she would glide leisurely on a languid emerald sea. She would be, the only occupant of the relaxed green sea and would move slowly on it., , Question 6;, , Js Amanda an orphan? Why does she say so?, , € Answer 6:, , No, Amanda is not an orphan, She says so because she wants to be all alone, She wants to move, around in the street alone and play with dust with her bare feet. She finds silence ‘golden’ and, , freedom ‘sweet’. That is why, she calls herself an orphan.
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Question 7: 2, Do you know the story of Rapunzel? Why does she want to be Rapunzel?, , & Answer 7:, , She wants to be Rapunzel because she wanted to live by herself. Rapunzel used to live all alone in, a tall tower and had long, beautiful hair. She was imprisoned by her grandmother. The girl also, wanted to live alone in a tower as she didn’t want to care about anything as life in a tower would be, calm, undisturbed and unusual. She also decided that she would never throw her hair down for, anyone to come up as she wanted to live alone always., , Question 8:, , What does the girl yearn for? What does this poem tell you about Amanda?, , € Answer 8:, , The girl yearns for a life of freedom. The poem tells us that she is a creative girl who is continuously, , nagged by her boring and dull parent., , Question 9:, Read the last stanza. Do you think Amanda is sulking and is moody?, € Answer 9:, , No, Amanda is neither sulking, nor is she, , out and play where she likes., , , , , , ply longs for her freedom. She wants to go
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Read the following extracts carefully and, answer the questions that follow., Question 1. 3, Don't bite your nails, Amanda!, Don't hunch your shoulders, Amanda!, Stop that slouching and sit up straight,, Amanda!, (a) Amanda is getting instructions for, what purpose?, (b) Give a synonym of ‘hunch’., (c) What does the speaker of above lines, instruct Amanda in the first stanza?, (d) What is the literary device used in the, third line?, Answer:, (a) Amanda is getting instructions as a, part of her upbringing. Her conduct and, manners are getting refined for future, purposes., (b) Bend., (c) Amanda is getting instructed for biting, her nails and sitting lazilv with her, , = O Q
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(c) Amanda is getting instructed for biting, her nails and sitting lazily with her, shoulders bent., , (d) Literary device used in third line is, Alliteration. ‘Stop that slouching and sit up, , straight’., 4, , Question 2., , (There is a languid, emerald sea, where the, sole inhabitant is me — a mermaid, drifting, blissfully.), , (a) Why are these lines given within, brackets?, , (b) Give the word from the passage which, means free flowing act of going with the, motion and force?, , (c) What is the role of mermaid here?, , (d) Which word in the extract means, opposite of ‘sorrowful’?, , Answer:, , (a) These lines are given within brackets, , because they reveal the inner thoughts of
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Answer: ine, , (a) These lines are givefi within brackets, because they reveal the inner thoughts of, Amanda. Brackets are used for visual, contrast between what Amanda is saying, and what her mother is instructing., , (b) Drifting means free flowing act of, going with the motion., , (c) Mermaid is a part of Amanda's fantasy, in her own created world. As mermaid, sails in a sea carelessly and effortlessly,, similarly Amanda longs to do so ina place, where she is all by herself., , (d) Blissfully is opposite of sorrowful.
