Class 12 English Notes
Chapter :: Lost Spring
Question Answers
Q.1:- What is Saheb looking for in the garbage dumps? Where is he and where has he come from?
A.1:- Saheb is a rag picker and he scrounges for 'gold' in the garbage. Gold here can mean the yellow metal as well as anything valuable like used clothes, shoes, bits of metal, plastic scrap, stray coins and currency notes. He belongs to Bangladeshi refugee family which migrated to Delhi from Dhaka.
Q.2:- What makes the city Of Firozabad famous?
A.2:- The city of Firozabad in Uttar Pradesh is famous for its bangles - the symbol of an Indian women's suhaag. It is the centre of India's glass blowing industry where families have spent generations working around furnaces, welding glass, making bangles to adorn the wrists of women.
Q.3:- How is Saheb's name full of irony?
A.3:- Saheb's full name is Saheb-e-Alam meaning 'Lord of the Universe'. But Saheb is poverty stricken, barefoot, homeless rag picker who scrounges the garbage dumps of Delhi to take out a livelihood. His name is in total contrast to his very existence and is thus deeply ironical.
Q.4:- Mention the hazards of working in the glass bangles industry.
A.4:- The glass bangle industry in Firozabad is a disorganized sector with neither proper infrastructure nor basic amenities. These are ill-lit and poorly ventilated; glass-blowing furnaces have dingy hovels with high temperatures where children and adults work in unhygienic conditions, without protection to eyes and not proper sitting postures makes them old early.
Q.5:- What forces conspire to keep the workers of Firozabad in poverty?
A.5:- There are lots of forces that conspire to keep the workers in the Bangle making industry. They are lack of education and awareness, stigma of being born in the caste of Bangle makers, vicious circle between the sahukars, middlemen, politicians and fear of being beaten and dragged to jail makes the problem more worse.
Q.6:- How in your opinion can Mukesh realize his dream?
A.6:- Mukesh in my opinion has already taken the first step to make his dream come true by daring to think of a different life. He can definitely realize his dream if he breaks an age-old belief by raising his voice against child labor and if he is determined to come out of this vicious circle of the corrupt forces he can certainly realize his dream to be a motor mechanic.
Q.7:- Would you agree that promises made to poor children are rarely kept? Why do you think this happens in the incidents narrated in the texts?
A.7:- Yes, I agree that promises made to the poor children are rarely kept. The rich or educated who come in contact with the children who are engaged in the activity of begging, picking rags, selling small objects, polishing shoes etc. interact with this section of society more out of a sense of curiosity than a social obligation. They make promises carelessly and without thinking, not to complete but to sow a seed of hope temporarily. In the text same thing happens with Saheb when the author Aness Jung encourage him to study and offers to join her school. It ignites a spark in him and raises his hopes. However the promise which she made is never complete and he has (saheb) to live in the same bleak world.
Q.8:- Why should child labour be eliminated and how?
A.8:- Children are the future of any country and like all citizens they should also get all rights and education, but some children due to poverty are forced to work in bangle making factory, tobacco industry, manufacturing units, carpet-weaving factories, match stick manufacturing units, fire work factories, etc. It should be eliminated by strictly implementing the child labour act. Public awareness should be done through print, audio, and visual media, compulsory education and free primary education should be provided by government agencies. Only than the child labour can be eliminated up to some extent.
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