Answer:
The setting is in Tibet. The story is about her visit in 2005,
The author describes the market, the children in school and her experiences with blind children to describe the setting of the story. She talks about history of blindness in the region. She also taks about Tibetans strong belief in ghosts and superstitions. Tibetans belief that blind are possessed by demons
Explanation:
In the stroy "The Neglected Senses", author Rosemary Mahoney tells about her experience in Tibet with blind children. She goes to market with blind children and is amazed by the blind children's sense of navigation.
She describes market scenes and about Tibetan culture
She writes: "The blind are considered to be cursed, possessed by demons, or capable of extrasensory perception, which makes them entirely dangerous,"
"For centuries Tibet's blind have been shunned, vilified, treated as subhuman, and subjected to unimaginable cruelty."
About blind children in school, she writes:
"Some of them had been abandoned by their families, some beaten, some tied to furniture," she writes. "Where did the cheerfulness come from?"