ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS SOLVED)

would think that she is being nagged by

HORT ANSW ER TP QuTONs
her mother.
01 Do vou think that Amanda doesn't to be
Q3. Why does Amanda want a
like to be controlled and instructed not
mermaid?
to de ene thing or the other? Give
a
Ans. Anmanda is an escapist. She imagines
reasened answeer.
herself to be a mermaid. She wants to
Amanda ioves her trecdom. She doesn't
Ans. live island where she is the only
on an
want it to be curtailed. She wants to lead
inhabitant. She loves freedom. She loves
her own kind of life. If she is asked what
to do and what not, she fcels that her
driting blissfully like a mermaid on that
lonely island.
treedom 1s curtailed. She doesn't bother
to answer her mother when she goes on Q4. Why does Amanda want to be an

nstructng her what to do and what not. orphan?

List the things which Amanda's Ans. Amanda values freedom more than
Q2. in her life. She feels suttocated
mother doesn't want her to do. anything
at home as she is constantly nagged
Ans.Her mother doesn't want her to hunch her mother there. She wants to be
her shouiders and bend her body down. by
an orphan. Like an orphan she likes to
She stops her from eating chocolates as it
would not be good tor her punpled face. wander about the streets treely with bare
She wants her t0 stop sulking as others feet
 Q5. Why does Amanda want to be LogAvSWER IVPE )u ss
Rapunzel? Q1. What picture do you form ofAmanda's
Ans. Amanda is an escapist. She imagines mother/parents after reading the poem
herselt as a tairy like Rapunzel. She Amanda'?
wants to live happily in her lonely tower Ans. Amanda's mother he an
seems to

far from the maddening crowd of the
world. Like Rapunzel, she wants to take
care of her beautiful golden hair.
Q6. Why does Amanda's mother ask her to
stop sulking?
Ans. Amanda's mother thinks that she is
moody as her mood is always shifting.
If she puts on an unhappy appearance,
others will blame her mother. They will
think that she is being constantly nagged
by her mother.
overprotective mother. She beleves that
Amanda is still a girl and must live her
life as her mother wants. Being a yirl,
she needs constant tutoring and taking
instructions from her. She should be
very careful the way she sits
and stands
She should not bend down but sit up
straight. She forbids her eating chocolate
as it would not be good for her pirmples
Her constant nagging leads her daughter
far away from her. Amanda escapes into
the world of dreams imagining herselt
a mermaid, an orphan fairy. She
or a

Q7. What could Amanda do if she were a

doesn't look at her mother while she is
fails
mermaid?
speaking to her. Amanda's mother
remains
Ans. Amanda is a little girl. She, in fact, is a to understand why her daughter
her
symbol of every child who is instructed unhappy and moody. She only asks
lest people should blame
stop sulking
by the parents to do or not to do this or to

that. If she were a mermaid she would her mother for nagging her.
Q2. Why does Amanda escape into the
blissfully drift in the sea. fairies
for? dreamy world of mermaids,
Q8. What does Amanda yearn and orphans? Does she find any solace
little girl. She is asked to do
Ans. Amanda is a this and that. She is nagged
there?
or not to do Ans. Amanda is a teenager. Like all teenagers.
at by her parents. So
Amanda yearns for
she loves freedom. She wants to lead
without
freedom. She wants to lead a life her own kind of life. She doesn't want
any restrictions. to be an overprotected child. Nor does

Q9. Don i eat that chocolate,

Amanda! she want that her parents should control
Remember your acne, Amanda!'
and guide her activities. What she should
eat do and what not, is her own choice. She
Why is Amanda asked not to should not be dictated by her mother
chocolate? Mother's constant nagging leads her
alreadysuffers from acne, a
Ans. Amanda away from her. She creates a world of
chocolate it will
skin disease. If she eats her own. Her world is not the world
her problem further. That is
aggravate of harsh realities but it is an imaginary
not to eat chocolate.
why she is asked world of tairies and mermaids. There she
speaker that is
Q10. What is the fear of the finds solace as she can wander in a lonely
stanza? island blissfully like a mermaid. She can
explained in the last
Ans. In the last stanza, the speaker advises enjoy freedom by roaming around the
Amanda not to be remain moody and streets Iike an orphan. She craves to live
sulking. The reason behind this is that in a lonely tower leading a peaceful life
she does not want to expose it before like Rapunzel. She avoids her mother as
others. Otherwise the people will think she doesn't like her constant nagging.
that she was teased by the speaker. It was She even doesn't look at her while she is
her fear. speak1ng to her.