CLASS 10
AMANDA
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Question
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The speaker has lost his/her parents from early childhood
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The speaker doesn’t want to be alone
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The speaker wants to get some freedom
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The speaker is fed up of the school system
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: The poetic device used in this line’ I pattern soft dust with my hushed bare feet’ is metaphor. Here Amanda is comparing herself to an orphan child who roams here and there bare feet, leaving footprints on the dust of the street.
Detailed explanation-2: -Amanda says so because she wants to roam around in the street alone and pattern dust with bare feet. She finds silence golden and freedom is sweet. C) The speaker wants to be orphan because she yearns for leading a carefree life without any restrictions of her parents or elders. She wants solitude and peace.
Detailed explanation-3: -Amanda is fed up with her mother’s constant nagging and being told what to do. Hence, she imagines herself to be an orphan with no parental figure to control her. She wants to roam around freely and enjoy the silence that would come when there is no one around to scold her. Was this answer helpful?
Detailed explanation-4: -She wants to roam around in the street alone and pattern dust with her bare feet. She finds silence ‘golden’ and freedom ‘sweet’. It is for this reason that she calls herself an orphan.