NCERT Solutions for Class 12 English Vistas Memories of Childhood
Madhya Pradesh Board Class 12 English Vistas Solutions Memories of Childhood By StudyEducation Memories of Childhood Reading with Insight Question 1. The two accounts that you read above are based in two distant cultures. What is the commonality of theme found in both of them ? Answer: ‘The Cutting of My Long Hair’ and ‘We too are human beings’ are two autobiographical accounts of two women who belong to two distinct and distant cultures. The author of ‘The Cutting of My Long Hair’ Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, born in 1876 was an extraordinarily talented and educated Native American Woman. She struggled and triumphed in a time when severe prejudice prevailed towards Native American culture and women. As a writer, she adopted the penname ‘Zitkala-Sa’ and in 1900 began publishing articles. Her works criticised dogma, and her life as a Native American woman was dedicated against the evils of oppression. In this account she tells us how helpless, desperate and pathetic she felt when her hair w...