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How I Taught My Grandmother to Read
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27/01/2021 6:33 pm
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Read the extract given below and answer the questions/complete the sentences that follow:
“I felt so very dependent and helpless. We ate well-off: but what use of money when I cannot be independent
(a) Who is the speaker of these lines?
(b) When did the speaker feel so very 'dependent and helpless’?
(c) By ‘independent’ the speaker here means.
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27/01/2021 6:34 pm
(a) The grandmother.
(b) When the speaker had gone for a wedding in the neighbouring village her grandmother opened the magazine, looked at the pictures but was unable to read anything. It was at this moment that she felt dependent and helpless and understood the value of literacy.
(c) To be able to read and write and to be literate represents actual independence.