How does the story suggest that optimism helps to endure “the direst stress”?

How does the stem help the plant?

Find and narrate other stories about conquest of fear and what people have said about courage. For example, you can recall Nelson Mandela's struggle for freedom, his perseverance to achieve his mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor as depicted in his autobiography. The story We're Not Afraid to Die, which you have read in Class IX, is an apt example of how courage and optimism helped a family survive under the direst stress.

How does a stem help the plant?

How does the skin of earthworm help in respiration ?