Long Answer Questions

The old woman is blind but wise, who is living alone in a small house, outside the town. She is the daughter of black American slaves. She is spending her life in a most simple way and her reputation is undisputedly far and wide for her wisdom. She had acquired undue honour, not only in her neighbourhood but even in far away city, She possesses extraordinary keen insight. She is a clarvoyant. The old woman does not feel irritated when some young people visit her and put some questions. Telling that one bird is in his hands he asks that whether it is living or dead.

The question was irrelevant as the old lady is blind. When he has repeated the same question she calmly says that she does not know whether, the bird is dead or alive. The only thing what she can say is that it is in his hands. The young visitors even scold her for her such reply, but she does not react. Thus, the old lady has much tolerance and justification. She does not loose her temper. As such she commands the respect and sympathy of all, those come in her contact.

It is a fact that good and interesting story provides pleasure and substantial lesson. Such story imparts a deep impression which remains t throughout the life. “Gillu” written by Mahadevi Verma is most interesting and the real story of her life. I have gone through (he story in the text. “Gillu” was a tiny baby squirted. It had fallen down from the nest of a tree in her garden and was wounded. Out of her genercusity, she brought it in her room and gave it proper nursing and care. She arranged a flower basket, as its nest on her window.

It was given delicious and nutrient food like Kaju, biscuits etc. During the course of her indisposition he vould sit near her head and gently stroke her forehead by its bushy tail. She had so much affection for Gillu that it was most unbearable for her to lose its company. But unfortunately, Gillu died in about two years. It was great shock to her. But it was her belief that on some spring day she would find, Gillu in the guise of a tiny yellow flower. The story is the example of compassionate feeling of Mahadevi Verma and throw a light on the sense of humanity. Really, the art of story-telling is gradually going down.

Yes, Language is crucial to a writer. It plays a dominant role in taking any decision by him. His course of action and tender sentiments are guided by the concept or general notion of the language. The three reason behind its being crucial may be cited by the following facts :

• it is language that tells us how to see without pictures. It means, we can know the situation of an event or incident through the language, without the help of the pictures,
• it is language which alone protects us from the frightening or causing fear of things,
• Language is the only means of meditation. It creates the act of meditating. Thus language is crucial to a writer for his profound expression of facts.

The following few lines from the text, very well highlight the plight of woman and depressed classes

• “Old woman, I hold in my hand a bird, tell me whether it is living or r dead”.
• For parading their power and her helplessness, the young visitors are reprimanded, told they are responsible not only for the act of mockery’ but also for the small bundle of life sacrificed to achieve its aims. The – blind
• woman shifts her attention away from assertions of power to the instrument through which that power is exercised.
• Perhaps what the children heard was, “It is not my problem. ‘I am old female, black, blind. What wisdom I have now is in knowing I cannot help you. The future of language is yours.”
• Tell us what it is to be a woman sp that we may know what it is to be a man. What it is to have no home to this place. To be set adrift from the one you know; What if is to live at the edge of towns that cannot bear your company.
• Tellus about hwagonload of slaves, howthey sangso softly their breath was’ indistinguishable from the falling snow. How they knew from the lunch of the nearest Shoulder that the next stop would be their last.

These are the few lines from the text which highlight the plight of woman and depressed classes.