Writing an article is a challenging task. It needs creativity, good vocabulary, good knowledge of the subject and skill to organize ideas.

Purpose

To focus on themes like social concern, narrating an event, description of a place, etc.

Format

•  Heading/Title- must be catchy and sharp

•  By- name of the author

•  Body

I Para- Introduction- Start with a slogan, a question, an amazing fact, figure or statement.

II/III Para- Causes, effects, present state of affairs, etc.

IV Para- Draw solutions and conclusions

The two boys faced a lot of hardships in their lives. The war devastated their lives completely. They lost everything. To look after their sister and themselves, they had to do all kinds of odd lobs.

 It is amazing to see such little boys having so much of determination to fight with the difficulties of life. With no parents and no one to help them, the work they are doing is beyond one’s imagination. Nicola, who is just thirteen years old and Jacopo, twelve, did every kind of work from shining shoes, selling fruit, newspapers, conducting tourists around the town, and running errands even during these summer days, under the hot sun. One windy midnight, it was amazing to see them sitting on the stone pavement at the deserted Square waiting for the bus to come so that they could sell the left over newspapers. It is really worth appreciating that they are doing so much of hard work so that they can earn enough to pay the hospital bills where their sister is getting treated for tuberculosis. I have immense respect for their spirit of not giving up easily. 

'The Frost king'  was the name of the first book Helen wrote.

     She was charged with plagiarism as it was believed that her story was similar to that of Miss Canby's 'The Frost Fairies'.

      Miss Anne Sullivan, her teacher helped her overcome the shock of being charged with plagiarism.

Ans. Helen visited the world's fair in 1893 with Ms. Anne Sullivan and Dr. Graham Bell. She witnessed entire world under her fingertips. She visited India, Egypt, Venice and Africa at the fair.

She shares her joy of examining a ship which was modeled after Columbus' ship. At the exhibit of Cape of good hope she witnessed the process of diamond cutting and washing.

She encapsulates her journey of beholding the sights of Shivas , Ganeshas and the majestic Pyramids as event taken from "Arabian Nights".

Ans. Miss Anne Mansfield Sullivan had the greatest influence on the life, character and achievements of Helen Keller. She gave a new direction, meaning and purpose to Helen's dark life. Miss Sullivan inherited all those traits and characteristics that go in making a perfect teacher. She was a picture of tireless patience . It was her constant encouragement, help and guidance that made Helen Keller first deaf and blind in the world to earn a bachelor degree.

Anne Sullivan arrived at Keller's house in March 1887. She immediately began to teach Helen to communicate by spelling words into her hand, beginning with "d-o-l-l" for the doll. It was Miss Sullivan who unfolded and developed Helen's skills and possibilities. It was Sullivan's genius as a teacher, her sympathy and loving tact which made learning so beautiful and interesting for Helen Keller. She felt that her being was inseparable from her student. All that was the best in Helen Keller had been awakened by the loving touch of Miss Sullivan. Anne Sullivan stayed as a companion to Helen Keller long after she taught her.

Ans. Alexander graham bell was a scientist, inventor and a very close friend of Helen. He was a philanthropist and was always eager to help the deaf and blind. He was the one who guided Helens parents and told them about Perkins institute for the blind. He was a kind hearted person and guided Helen during her tough times. Even when she couldn't understand language

Dr. Alexander made her very comfortable around him. He became her tour guide in the world fair. He gave her a lot of knowledge. Helen had very fond memories of him. He is the kind of friend one should have in their life.

Ans. Dr. J. Julian Chisolen was an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist. Helen Keller's family approach him to consult about Keller's illness and for some advice. He further sent them to Alexandar Graham Bell who was working with the deaf children at that time. Bell advised them to contact the Perkins Institute for the Blind. On reaching there, the school’s director put Helen under the charge of their former student Anne Sullivan who herself was visually impaired.

4) Bring me the book that is lying on the table.

Neither of them has come.

Neither of them has come. 

Ans. Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Her family lived on a homestead, Ivy Green, that Helen's grandfather had built decades earlier.

She had two younger siblings, Mildred Campbell and Phillip Brooks Keller, two older half-brothers from her father's prior marriage, James and William Simpson Keller.Her father, Arthur H. Keller,spent many years as an editor for the Tuscumbia North Alabamian, and had served as a captain for the Confederate Army.Her paternal grandmother was the second cousin of Robert E. Lee. Her mother, Kate Adams, was the daughter of Charles W. Adams.Though originally from Massachusetts, Charles Adams also fought for the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, earning the rank of colonel (and acting brigadier-general).

Her paternal lineage was traced to Casper Keller, a native of Switzerland.One of Helen's Swiss ancestors was the first teacher for the deaf in Zurich.

Ans. When she was nineteen months old she became sick and lost her eyesight and hearing. The doctor didn't know what it was, so he called it a "congestion of the stomach and brain." Some people say that it was scarlet fever or meningitis

Ans. The life story of a deaf and blind person makes for an inspirational read because it bears testimony to the powers of the human will and endurance in the face of adversities. It is the account of a human being's exceptional powers of perseverance which enables the person to overcome all odds to triumph in life. Helen Keller could neither see nor hear but her achievements belie her physical limitations.

Her intellectual capabilities and aesthetic sensibilities could not be constrained by her physical disadvantages, her thirst for knowledge was unquenchable and her love of life, human or natural, boundless. It is interesting and inspiring to read the story of her life because she triumphed against all adversities with grace and learned from her mistakes. Nothing could stop her from charting the course of her life which is a lesson for us in overcoming our obstacles. She took life in her stride and strove towards progress.

There is a lot to learn from even reading about a person without the powers of vision or hearing but looks at life in such a positive manner. It is easy to complain or give up, the real test lies in enduring and continuing until we win. The greatness in her personality stemmed from the desire to overcome all that obstructed her path to progress. She was determined to succeed and she did, this is what makes her tale an inspiring story.

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• In this poem, a mirror describes its existence and its owner, who grows older as the mirror watches.
   
• The mirror first describes itself as “silver and exact.” It forms no judgements, instead merely swallowing what it sees and reflecting that image back without any alteration.
   
• The mirror is not cruel, “only truthful.” It considers itself a four-cornered eye of a god, which sees everything for what it is. Most of the time, the mirror looks across the empty room and meditates on the pink speckled wall across from it. It has looked at that wall for so long that it describes the wall as “part of my heart.”
   
• The image of the wall is interrupted only by people who enter to look at themselves and the darkness that comes with night. The mirror imagines itself as a lake. A woman looks into it, trying to discern who she really is by gazing at her reflection. Sometimes, the woman prefers to look at herself in candlelight or moonlight, but these are “liars” because they mask her true appearance.
   
• Only the mirror (existing here as lake) gives her a faithful representation of herself. Because of this honesty, the woman cries and wrings her hands. Nevertheless, she cannot refrain from visiting the mirror over and over again, every morning.
   
• Over the years, the woman has “drowned a young girl” in the mirror, and now sees in her reflection an old woman growing older by the day. This old woman rises toward her out of the mirror like “a terrible fish.”

Here,the mirror is saying that like humans he can't make any pre-judgement about anyone he only tells the reality .

Ans. The two boys, Jacopa and Nicola, did many petty odd jobs to earn money for their livelihood and for the treatment of their ailing sister. That day they had taken up the work of shoe polishing. They were actively busy with their shoe shining work. Hence, they had bent over shoeshine boxes.

_{THE PHRASE MEANS THAT THE TRADE CARRIED BY THE TWO BOYS  SLOWED DOWN.}

Slacken : slowed down.

1 Why did the driver not approve of their buying fruit from the boys?
2 When did the author’s companion find out that the boys were brothers ?
3. What were the jobs the boys did to earn money?.
4. What attracted the visitors towards the boys ?
5 Where did the author meet the two boys for the first time? What were they doing?
6. Why was the author surprised to see Nicola and Jacopo working as shoe shines?
7. How were the boys useful to the author?
8. Why did the author say that what struck one most was their willingness to work?
9. Why were the boys out in the deserted square at night?
10. Were the boys quite happy to work? Which sentence tells you this?
11.What made the author think that they were earning much?
12.Why did Nicola say “just plans” when the author asked them what their plans were?
13.Who asked the author to drive them to Poleta? Did the other brother approve of the request? Why?
14 Did the boys try to prevent the author from finding out the real purpose of their visit to Poleta? Did they succeed?
15. How did the war affect the boys’ family?
16. How did the boys take care of their sister?
17. Do you think the two boys enjoyed what they were doing? Why do you think so?
18. How does the story of the Two Gentlemen of Verona give promise of greater hope for human society?
19. How can you say that the boys worked quite hard?
20. What did the narrator tell the narrator?
21. How was the life of the boys comfortable and cultured?
22. How did the boys react to the Lucia’s suffering from the tuberculosis of the spine?
23. What happened when the boys rejoined the narrator?

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