Memories of Childhood

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NCERT Class 12 English Core Chapter wise Solutions

Flamingo – Prose

• 1: The Last Lesson (Alphonse Daudet)
• 2: Lost Spring (Anees Jung)
• 3: Deep Water (William Douglas)
• 4: The Rattrap (Selma Lagerlof)
• 5: Indigo (Louis Fischer)
• 6: Going Places (A. R. Barton)

Flamingo – Poetry

• 1: My Mother at Sixty – Six (Kamala Das)
• 2: An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum (Stephen Spender)
• 3: Keeping Quiet (Pablo Neruda)
• 4: A Thing of Beauty (John Keats)
• 5: Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers (Adrienne Rich)

Vistas – Supplementary Reader

• 1: The Third Level (Jack Finney)
• 2. The Tiger King (Kalki)
• 3. Journey to the end of the Earth (Tishani Doshi)
• 4. The Enemy Pearl (S. Buck)
• 5. Should Wizard hit Mommy (John Updike)
• 6. On the face of It (Susan Hill)
• 7. Evans Tries an O-level (Colin Dexter)

NCERT Solutions for class 12 English Core Vistas Memories of Childhood

1. The two accounts that you read above are based in two distant cultures. What is the commonality of theme found in both of them?

2. It may take a long time for oppression to be resisted, but the seeds of rebellion are sowed early in life. Do you agree that injustice in any form cannot escape being noticed even by children?

3. Bama’s experience is that of a victim of the caste system. What kind of discrimination does Zitkala-Sa’s experience depict? What are their responses to their respective situations?