Summary and Question Answers - Memories of Childhood Video Lecture - English

hi students my name is Ruchika I welcome
you to the English Academy CBSE class
12th vistas memories of childhood by zip
kalasa and Bama I'll tell you about the
author's summary of the chapter
difficult words in it and important
questions
Gertrude Simmons Bonnin was known by her
pen name zip kalasa which means red bird
she was a Yankton Dakota writer editor
musician teacher and political activist
she wrote several works chronicling her
youthful struggles with identity and
pulls between the majority culture and
her Native American heritage her later
books in English were among the first
works to bring traditional Native
American stories to a widespread white
readership the second author bama
Faustina su se Dodge was born in 1958
and rode by the pen name dama
she is a Tamil Dalit feminist and
novelist she rose to fame with her
autobiographical novel kuru coup in 1992
which chronicles the joys and sorrows
experienced by Dallas Christian women in
Tamil Nadu she subsequently wrote two
more novels Sangha tea in 1994 and Van
mum in 2002 along with two collections
of short stories kizomba Curran 1996 and
Ruth autumn arrow maroon 2003 summary of
the chapter the chapter gives
autobiographical accounts from the lives
of two women from marginalized or
sidelined communities who look back upon
their childhood experiences and given
insight on the relationship with the
mainstream culture they are from
different parts of the world
and were born in different times but
experienced oppression in different
forms the first story the cutting of my
long hair bicep kalasa zip kalasa was a
pen name of Native American writer
Gertrude Simmons Bonnin born in 1876 she
published articles criticizing the
Carlisle Indian School which was run by
the whites she went to the hostel there
for education and suffered racial
discrimination as it was her first day
she did not know the routine the table
manners to be followed and the constant
gaze of a pale-faced woman with white
hair made her feel tied up losing her
freedom the students over they were
forced to wear hard shoes tied dresses
and cut their hair zip collars shawl
which was a part of her dress a symbol
of dignity for her had been taken away
by the authorities and she felt that her
modesty had been taken away with it she
could not understand English so a girl
would win
warned her that she had overheard the
pale-faced woman talk about cutting
their long heavy hair in her Nativity
short hair Verve owned by Moniz and the
hair of cowards were cut which meant to
sakala that cutting her hair would imply
her to be a coward she was determined
not to give in so she hid herself in a
room under the bed
shaking with fear upon being found she
was dragged out but she did oppose as
much as she could but finally her thick
braid was cut along with which she lost
her spirit she felt like a little animal
being driven by a herder the next story
the two are human beings by Bhama
Bhama is the pen name of a Tamil Dallas
woman bama Faustina Sousa Raj this is an
excerpt from her autobiography karoku
Mae
she was in the third class she was not
aware of untouchability but had
experienced it on her way home from
school one day she saw the landlord
seated watching the men from her
community working hard
she found it funny when an elder from
her community carried a parcel of food
from the string and not touched the
packet he offered it to the landlord and
board in front of him she narrated this
funny incident to her brother who told
her that it was not funny the way he was
carrying the pack of food her brother
told her that as they were from a low
caste they were Untouchables and their
touch would pollute anything that was
the reason for the elder man to carry
the food package by its string Parma was
sad on hearing this and so angry that
she wanted to touch the food straight
away and pollute it she was enraged that
why did her elders work so hard and even
then go down before these rich people
who looked down upon them her brother
guided her that education was the only
weapon for them to get honor and dignity
he told her to work hard and learn to
throw away these indignities she stood
first and made many friends due to her
hard work and perseverance difficult
words from the chapter Dogma means
Orthodox ideas oppression means
maltreatment belfry is a bell tower
bedlam is a scene of a plural confusion
shingled is cut hair her ranch is
lecture at length in an aggressive and
critical manner tether means to tie as
to restrict movement muzzled means a
covering put over the mouths of animals
important questions from the chapter the
two accounts that you read are based in
two distinct cultures what is the
commonality of theme found in both of
them the answer is both the accounts
have the common theme of oppression
Zipcars on the ratio discrimination and
Burma
on Cass discrimination the stories are
autobiographical accounts of the writers
where they experience sadness
indignation and outrage being from
marginalized communities these
experiences made them rebellious gave
direction and drove them to fight
against the injustice --is that their
communities were being subjected to the
next question it may take a long time
for operation to be resisted but the
seeds of rebellion are sowed
early in life do you agree that
injustice in any form cannot escape
being noticed even by children the
answer is every living thing may be
humans or animals can feel the sense of
restriction on their freedom a little
child can also feel the slightest
attempt of infringement upon his freedom
being helpless it may get scared and be
unable to resist but this cause of these
infringement sleeve a permanent mark on
the minds of an individual whenever the
person gets the chance and ability to
rebel he or she does so so children do
what is any injustice that is being done
the next question bama's experiences
that of a victim of the caste system
what kind of discrimination does it
Colossus experience depict what are the
responses to their respective situations
the answer is zip kalasa a Native
American experiences racial
discrimination by the whites both of
them oppose and rebel the oppression
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