[๐ CONCEPTUAL FRUIT – Capsule Notes
✍️ Thaisa Frank
Class XI English | Unit 6 – Leaps and Bounds
๐ป 1. A Virtual World
Technology becomes truly meaningful when it is combined with love, care and compassion. Greta’s virtual world represents her father’s hope for her happiness and a better life.]
Class XI English | Unit 6 – Leaps and Bounds
๐ป 1. A Virtual World
- Greta’s father discovers an Internet site.
- Users can create streets, houses and rooms.
- He tells his family about its possibilities.
- His wife and son show little interest.
- But Greta becomes curious.
- She wants to see the virtual world.
- Greta is a differently-abled girl.
- She attends a special school.
- She reads below her age level.
- Her father is delighted by her interest.
- Her father creates “Greta’s Street” and “Greta’s House.”
- Greta chooses the rooms and windows.
- She wants bowls of peaches in every room.
- Greta expects real peaches.
- The computer produces only words and pictures.
- She learns that virtual fruit represents real fruit.
- Greta does not want a bathroom.
- She knows the house is not real.
- So nobody would actually use one.
- Her father fills the rooms with virtual peaches.
- Greta smiles when they appear.
- She realizes the virtual world can contain anything she wants.
- Greta may never have a house of her own.
- She may have to live in a group home.
- Her father dreams of a beautiful home for her
- He dreams of giving Greta more than virtual fruit.
- He hopes she will have an orchard of real fruit.
- Apples, pears and peaches—whatever Greta wants.
Technology becomes truly meaningful when it is combined with love, care and compassion. Greta’s virtual world represents her father’s hope for her happiness and a better life.]
[Prepared By Sindhu P,HSST English,GGHSS Kallai]