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प्रश्न
Have you ever visited or seen an elementary school in a slum? What does it look like?
उत्तर
Yes, I have visited an elementary school in a slum. The school was in a pitiful state. Its dingy and neglected classrooms were devoid of even basic amenities like fan and lights. Every single window was broken and bore marks of rust. How the students in the classroom dealt with the outside noise or the winters was anybody’s guess. The ceilings too were full of cobwebs. The furniture was broken and almost unusable. The walls of the classrooms were as shabby, malnourished and disinterested as the students sitting in their enclosures. Even the teachers seemed to have lost their concern both for the students and their education. Moreover, I was shocked to know that the usage of toilets was restricted to the school staff.
Notes
A model answer has been provided for students' reference. It is strongly recommended that students prepare the answer on their own.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
Far far from gusty waves these children's faces.
Like rootless weeds, the hair torn round their pallor;
The tall girl with her weighed-down head.
(a) Who are these children?
(b) Which figure of speech has been used in the first two lines?
(c) Why is the tall girl's head weighed down?
(d) What does the word, 'pallor' mean?
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
At back of the dim class
One unnoted, sweet and young. His eyes live in a dream,
Of squirrel's game, in three room, other than this.
(a) Why is the class dim?
(b) How is the young child different from others?
(c) What is he doing?
(d) What is a tree room?
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
Wear skins peeped through by bones and spectacles of steel
With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones
(b) What is their slag heap?
(c) Why are their bones peeping though their skins?
(d) What does 'with mended glass' mean?
Tick the Item Which Best Answers the Following.
The Tall Girl with Her Head Weighed Down Means the Girl ______________________.
Tick the Item Which Best Answers the Following.
The paper-seeming boy with rat’s eyes means the boy is ______________________.
Tick the item which best answers the following.
The stunted, unlucky heir of twisted bones means the boy ______________________.
Tick the item which best answers the following.
His eyes live in a dream. A squirrel’s game, in the tree room other than this. This means the boy is ______________________.
Tick the item which best answers the following.
The children’s faces are compared to ‘rootless weeds’. This means they ______________________.
What do you think is the colour of ‘sour cream’? Why do you think the poet has used this expression to describe the classroom walls?
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?
What does the poet want for the children of the slums? How can their lives be made to change?
