Class 12 English Lesson 6 Memories of Childhood Part 2 Vistas Book
Class 12 English Lesson 6 Memories of Childhood Part 2 Vistas Book NCERT Solution Q1- The two accounts that you read above are based in two distant cultures. What is the commonality of theme found in both of them? Ans- The autobiographical accounts covered under ‘Memories of Childhood’ are by the two women from socially marginalized sections in two different cultures of the world. In the first story the author describes how she became victim of the social discrimination when she was badly treated by the European staff of the school because she was a Native American. She feels so humiliated when her blanket is removed from her shoulders and her hair was shingled. In her culture shingled hair was a symbol of being a coward. In the second story Bama describes the social discrimination faced by the low castes in India. She being a student of third standard was forced to face the harsh reality of untouchability, when she saw an old Dalit man carrying food packe...