CLASS-12th
CHAPTER No - 7
(Helen Keller)
Most Important Long Question Answers
Q1. Write the theme of the chapter ‘The Story of My Life’ in your own words.
Ans. This lesson
is based on the theme that even the blind and the deaf can lead a fuller and
more adventurous life. A gifted person, even if he is handicapped, can make a
worthwhile contribution to society and to the world. Helen Keller was such a
person. Despite being blind and deaf she had a remarkable gift for
communication. A teacher name Anne Sullivan came to reach her and to reveal to
her the mystery of language. Her teacher began to teach her to communicate by
spelling words into her hand. She wrote her autobiography ‘The Story of My Life’. Before
her education she was like a ship shut in thick fog. Her teacher’s efforts and
her own willingness to learn revealed to her the mystery of language. Her life
proves the strength of the proverb that the wind and the weather are always on
the side of the ablest navigator.
Q2. Give a brief character sketch of the narrator (Helen Keller).
Ans. Helen Keller because blind and
deaf at the age of nineteen months because of fever. Despite her handicap, she
went on to live a fuller and more adventurous life. She had a remarkable gift
for communication. She learned to read and write. She was an eager learner. Her
teacher Anne Sullivan did a lot of hard work in teaching her by spelling words
through finger-play. She had some difficulty in knowing the difference between
certain words. But her teacher’s patience and labour revealed to her the
mystery of language. She was delighted when the mystery of language was
revealed to her. Helen Keller wrote her autobiography at the age of 22. She
rose to be an outstanding personality through her education.
Q3. Describe the narrator’s experience with her teacher?
Ans. Anne Sullivan came to
Helen-Keller’s house to teach her. The morning after she came she was led into
her room. She gave her a doll. She played with it a little while; Miss Sullivan
slowly spelled into her hand the word doll. She felt interested in the finger-
play. She learnt many words like pin, hat, cup and a few verbs like sit, stand
and walk. After a few weeks, she learnt that everything has a name.
One
day Miss Sullivan put Helen’s big rag doll into her lap. She again spelled the
word doll and tried to make Helen understand that doll applied to both. Then
she had a tussle with her teacher over the words ‘mug’ and ‘water’. She felt
fed up with her teacher’s efforts to teach her the difference between the two
words. Then they went to the well-house. Her teacher placed her hand under the
spout from which cool water flowed on her hand. She felt a thrill of returning
thought. Her soul awakened. The mystery of language was revealed to her. She
learnt a number of words. Finally she wrote her autobiography.
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