Three Days to See


Three Days to See


Question#1: Whos was Helen Keller?

Answer:Helen Keller was a remarkable woman.After an illness she was left blind and deaf at the age of 19 months.At the age of seven years,Anne Sullivan took charge of her.She was a 20 year old graduate of the Perkins school for the Blind.


Question#2: Describe the thought expressed by the author in the first paragraph.

Answer: The thought to live each day as if we were to die tomorrow emphasizing the value of life is expressed by the author in the first paragraph.Such an attitude makes us more appreciative of meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values.


Question#3: What makes you feel that author is sad and depressed?

Answer:The fact that “the seeing see little”makes the author sad and depressed.The people with sight are unable to comprehend the unseen creativity of the Creator.On the other hand Helen,both blind and deaf, was better able to understand and see the beauty and spiritual side of the world.Her deepest wish for sight and sound makes her sad and depressed.


Question#4:How do you get an impression that Helen Keller was a great admirer of Nature?

Answer: Helen Keller feels the delicate symmetry of leaves and flowers with her hands. She feels cool water flowing through her open fingers. She feels the happy quiver of a bird. All this shows that Helen Keller is a great admirer of nature. 


Question#5: People who are deprived of sight not devoid of imagination. Discuss.

Answer: People who are blind are more imaginative than those who can see. There is plenty of imagery that goes on all the time in blind people. Helen Keller is such an example. She notices things by mere touch and imagines their beauty. 


Question#6: “To me the pageant of season is an unending drama,”Comment?

               Answer: The phrase tells that the change in season is endless. The continuity of change of seasons never ends. It is endless.The more she gets in touch with it the more satisfied and elevated she feels.Nature never fails her in her spiritual experience.


Why has Helen Keller no time to waste in longings?

Answer: There is so much to see in the world and Helen Keller is left only with one day more to see. Thus she has a very brief time and does not want to waste even a fraction of second in regret for longings only. 

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