CLASS 10
AMANDA
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Orphan
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Mermaid
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Rapunzel
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Amanda imagined herself as a-– of emerald sea. Ans: (b) Mermaid.
Detailed explanation-3: -In this stanza poet says that Amanda is still lost in her own dreams. She pictures herself to be the long golden haired Rapunzel who lived in a castle and no worries about anything.
Detailed explanation-4: -She is a teenager and like other teens, she loves freedom. She wants to her own kind of life in her imaginary world. Her world is not the world of harsh realities but it is an imaginary world of fairies and mermaids. She finds solace in roaming around.
Detailed explanation-5: -A: Amanda wants to be the sole inhabitant of the sea. She wants to be as free as a mermaid. She wants to be a mermaid ‘so that she could drift joyfully with the gentle waves of sea.