Read the extract carefully and answer the following questions :"You, old woman, blessed with blindness, can speak the language that tells us what only language can: how to see without pictures. Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation. "Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the margin. What it is to have no home in this place. To be set a drift from the one you knew. What it is to live at the edge of towns that cannot bear your company. "Tell us about ships turned a way from shorelines at Easter, placent in a field. Tell us about a wagonload of slaves, how they sang so softly their breath was indistinguishable from the falling snow. How they knew from the hunch of the nearest shoulder that the next stop would be their last. (i) Name the topic and the author. (ii) How is language alone mediation? (iii) What did the visitors ask about slaves? (iv) What did they ask about a woman?  (v) Why was the old woman blessed?