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Attempt the following in 150-200 words.

Bring out the importance of the diary in Anne's Life.

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Why does Anne call herself a 'bundle of contradictions'?

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What was the incident of the Frost King? How did it affect Helen?

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Write a character sketch of Bishop Brooks as he appears in Helen Keller's - The Story of My Life.

 

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Anne's diary is regarded as a valuable and authentic record of those times. The diary is very precious and provides invaluable insights into the times, lives and hardships of Anne. It is infact one of the surviving authentic accounts of the times. It is, a rare insight from a child's point of view. Reading her diary, we realise that Anne does not bear the burden of crying to protect an entire family from the unbearable evils of the war. Anne's diary demonstrates the impact of the Holocaust on a single girl, which personalised this sprawling historical horror. Anne became proccupied with questions about who she was and what she wanted to become and her once innocent perspective changed considerably. The holocaust forced Anne to grow up and come to terms with her own identity- her role as a member of her family, as a Jew, and as a young woman in a dangerous and threatening world.

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Anne calls herself that she is a 'bundle of contradictions'. She says that she has a dual personality. One half has her exuberant cheerfulness. It makes fun of everything and it takes everything lightly. The other side or self is much better, 'deeper and purer'. The first side, that is, the superficial side is always quick to gain control over the better self. Anne has tried several times to push away the superficial side but had failed.

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Helen Keller wrote a story "The Frost King" which she believed was her own creation. Helen's teacher, Anne Sullivan had mentioned that the autumn leaves were "painted ruby, emerald, gold, crimson and brown", and Helen, by her own account, imagined fairies doing the work. She wrote a story about how a cash of jewels, being transported by fairy servants, had melted in the sun and covered the leaves. Helen sent the story to Mr. Anagnos, head of the Perkins Institution for the Blind, as a birthday gift; who then published the story in "The Mentor", the Perkins Alumnae magazine. Someone reported that Helen's story "Frost Fairies" is from Margaret Camby's book "Birdie and his Fairy Friends." Helen insisted that she had no memory of having read the book or having had it read to her, but passages in her letters from the period, which she describes as "dreams", strongly resemble other episodes in the book. Miss Sullivan and Helen both insisted that Margaret Camby's story had not been read to Helen. During further investigations, it came out that Mr. Hopkins, with whom Helen had stayed a few years ago, had a copy of the book in her possession and spelled out some of stories from the book to Helen during Miss Sullivan's absence. It seems remarkable that Helen retained so much of the story in her mind that she could reproduce it after some years. So, Helen is guilty of plagiarism though it was done unknowingly and unintentionally.

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Bishop Brooks was one of the men of genius, Keller knew. He knew Keller from her childhood days who taught her about religion and God. Once, when she was ruffled to know why there were so many religions, he explained that there was one universal religion, the religion of love. "Love your heavenly" father with your whole heart and soul, love every child of God as much as ever you can and remember that the possibilities of good are greater than the possibilities of evil, and you have the "Key to Heaven". Bishop Brooks taught her no special creed or dogma. She was a person who respected all the creeds. He impressed her with two great ideas, i.e., the fatherhood of the God and the brotherhood of a man. He believed that these are the universal truths.