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    The document discusses child labor in the glass bangle industry in Firozabad, India. It introduces Mukesh, a child worker who dreams of learning to drive despite working long hours in unsafe furnace conditions from a young age. While his family views their situation as destiny, Mukesh maintains hope and ambition for a different future.

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    LOST SPRING

    -ANEES JUNG

    Learning Objective: Analysis of the metaphorical implication of lost spring as lost childhood.

    Central Idea: ______________________________________________________________________


    __________________________________________________________________________________

    I. Answer the extract-based questions:

    A) I will learn to drive a car,” he answers, looking straight into my eyes. His dream looms like a mirage amidst
    the dust of streets that fill his town Firozabad, famous for its bangles. Every other family in Firozabad is
    engaged in making bangles. It is the centre of India’s glass- blowing industry where families have spent
    generations working around furnaces, wielding glass, making bangles for all the women in the land it seems.
    Mukesh’s family is among them. None of them know that it is illegal for children like him to work in the glass
    furnaces with high temperatures, in dingy cells without air and light; that the law, if enforced, could get him
    and all those 20,000 children out of the hot furnaces where they slog their daylight hours, often losing the
    brightness of their eyes. Mukesh’s eyes beam as he volunteers to take me home, which he proudly says is
    being rebuilt.

    i)The simile ‘dream looms like a mirage amidst the dust of streets’ indicates that his dream
    was ________________________________________

    ii) I will learn to drive a car,’ he answers, looking straight into my eyes. This sentence
    highlights Mukesh was

    1. determined
    2. fearless
    3. hopeful
    4. valiant
    5. ambitious
    6. stern

    a) 1 & 5
    b) 2 & 4
    c) 2 & 5
    d) 3 & 6

    iii) Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE with reference to the extract?
    a) Children work in badly lit and poorly ventilated furnaces.
    b) The children are unaware that it is forbidden by law to work in the furnaces.
    c) Children toil in the furnaces for hours which affects their eyesight.
    d) Firozabad has emerged as a nascent producer of bangles in the country.

    iv) How is Mukesh’s attitude to his situation different from that of his family?

    II. Answer the following in 30-40 words.

    i)What kind of gold did the people of Seemapuri look for in the garbage?

    ii)“It is his karam, his destiny.” What is Mukesh’s family’s attitude towards their situation?

    III. Answer the following in 120-150 words


    Q.1 The bangle-makers of Firozabad make beautiful bangles and make everyone happy but they live and die in
    squalor. Elaborate. (Delhi 2010)

    1
    Sample Answer:
    Through the story of the bangle-makers of Ferozabad, the author expresses her concern over their exploitation in
    the hazardous job of bangle-making. Extreme poverty, hard work and dismal working conditions result in the loss
    of childhood of children who are in this profession. The working conditions of all bangle-makers are pathetic and
    miserable. They work in high temperature, badly lit and poorly ventilated glass furnaces due to which child
    workers especially are at risk of losing their eyesight at an early age and get prone to other health hazards. The
    stinking lanes of Ferozabad are choked with garbage and humans and animals live together in these hovels. There
    is no development or progress in their lives with the passage of time. They have no choice but to work in these
    inhuman conditions. Mind-numbing toil kills their dreams and hopes. They are condemned to live and die in
    squalor, subjected to a life of poverty and perpetual exploitation.

    Q. IV. Answer any one in 120-150 words:


    Q. 1 ‘Lost Spring’ explains the grinding poverty and traditions that condemn thousands of people to a life of abject
    poverty. Do you agree? Why/Why not?
    Q. 2“It is his Karam, his destiny” that made Mukesh’s grandfather go blind. How did Mukesh disprove this belief
    by choosing a new vocation and making his own destiny?

    Q. V Create an awareness poster on “Child Labour”

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