Tick the item which best answers the following.
The tall girl with her head weighed down means
The girl
(i) is ill and exhausted
(ii) has her head bent with shame
(iii) has untidy hair
(i) is ill and exhausted.
Explanation: The girl is ill and exhausted is due to stress and burden of circumstances in their pathetic environment completely filled with the poverty and always makes the hope and dream away from the justice and has been tortured by taking away their success.
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The paper-seeming boy with rat’s eyes means
The boy is
(i) sly and secretive
(ii) thin, hungry and weak
(iii) unpleasant looking
(ii) thin, hungry and weak.
Explanation: the boy describe in the poem is thin, hungry and weak as the face was pale and pitiful with full of vulnerabilities. And weak is because of the disease inherited from their parents. And all children in the slum are all with disastrous ad tragic.
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The stunted, unlucky heir of twisted bones means
The boy
(i) has an inherited disability
(ii) was short and bony
(i) has an inherited disability.
Explanation: Boy described in the poem is stunted, unlucky is all because of the bad break as the human beings have been caused by the disease which is directly an inherited disease from their parents. and these disease has crushed the bodies of slum children in a poverty situation.
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His eyes live in a dream, A squirrel’s game, in the tree room other than this means
The boy is
(i) full of hope in the future
(ii) mentally ill
(iii) distracted from the lesson
(i) full of hope in the future.
Explanation: The boy was full of hope in his future and has a passionate towards the playing games as described as a squirrel game. His eyes were full of dreams in achieving victory besides the awful and irritating habitat.
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The children’s faces are compared to ‘rootless weeds’
This means they
(i) are insecure
(ii) are ill-fed
(iii) are wasters
(i) is insecure.
Explanation: The children faces were in-secure as they are unnourished and depressed under a touchful environment, where their aspiration and plan were carried away and never had an open and freedom life where they can lay their dreams and always condensed in an injustice domain.
What do you think is the color of ‘sour cream’? Why do you think the poet has used this expression to describe the classroom walls?
The color ‘sour cream ‘expresses nearly white color. The poet uses this expression to express the pathetic environment, where the walls were completely vanished and were totally dusty in an appearance. Due to this ugly environment, slum children were depressed, pale and were mislay to their hopes and dreams.
The walls of the classroom are decorated with the pictures of ‘Shakespeare’, ‘buildings with domes’, ‘world maps’ and beautiful valleys. How do these contrast with the world of these children?
The walls were complete with an art. The poet describes as the walls appeared with the background of a clear sky at the time of first light in the early morning. The walls also have an attractive image of Tyrolese Valley with its beautiful flowers presenting a world of the heavenly splendor. Apart from all this, the walls also have a map revealing the world which they sight from the classroom’s windows which is foggy and harsh. It represents a dark and bleak future with no hope for betterment. Their eyes can only view a narrow road which is enclosed with a dull sky. The poet contrast with these slum children trapped in a cramped dark hole. The art wall describes the beauty, progress, and prosperity. At last, expresses the kindness and love.
What does the poet want for the children of the slums? How can their lives be made to change?
The children in the slum were cheated with the thrilling sensations of happiness and joy. These children were trapped in a crashed dark hole with no hopes and passion struggling in a poverty and striving toward enrichment. To overcome this battle poet, want the children to be in a green ad fresh world with no injustice and healthy environment away from foggy slums. The poet wants an independent environment where these children must have a right to education and must have a freedom to choose every opportunity in their way.