Read the text and do the tasks. Blessed nature! You gave birth to me to endure the cruel behaviour of human beings and you awoke the meaning of being…
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Read the text and do the tasks.
Blessed nature! You gave birth to me to endure the cruel behaviour of human beings and you awoke the meaning of being me. When I was restless with suffering you became my mother and wiped the tears that seeped from my eyes. The mother who bore me also gave birth to me, even though it was to suffer pain, she fostered me for nine or ten months in her womb and gave birth to me. In this neither she nor I was at fault. It was the fault of fate. Is the definition of disability merely to be born with bodily incapacity? If so, why do they not consider Homer incomplete? Why did the world never consider the Nikolai Otrovskys, the Helen Kellers incomplete? These people were weak in body, just like me. But they wrote history before they departed, they left us a different perspective, they set down the meaning of being human before they passed away.
But me? I was born in a world very different from theirs, born in a different geography. For this reason, I lived a life that was so unequal and low grade that may be only an animal could have lived such a life before. When I achieved awareness, the shoots of consciousness had begun to sprout in me, I think. But even achieving awareness became like a curse. I did not have a voice with which to speak, nor any strength in my legs to walk. Nor was there strength in my hands that I could fill a basket with godavari, makhmali and sunakhari flowers. No, I had nothing of this at all. I was a helpless girl bereft of all these things, whose mind was filled with a longing to run on the hills, but whose feet did not have the strength to support her body. I longed to talk with others, but I had no voice! Because these desires were ones that would never be fulfilled, they fell upon me, wounded.
A. Write TRUE for true and FALSE for false statements. (5×1=5)
a. The writer is happy with people's behavior towards her.
b. The writer thinks fate is responsible for her condition.
c. Like the writer, Homer and Helen Keller also had bodily weakness.
d. The writer lived a low grade life like an animal.
e. The writer used to talk for a long time with others.
B. Answer these questions. (5×1=5)
a. Who is the 'mother' that comforted the writer?
b. Why could the writer NOT live a life like Nikolai Otrovskys?
c. What would the writer do if her hands had strength?
d. What was the problem with the writer's feet?
e. Is the writer really helpless? Give a reason from the text.