Class 12 English The Lost Spring Question Answer

 

Class 12 English The Lost Spring  Question Answer 

Understanding The Text 

Question 1- what could be some of the reasons for the migration of people from  village to cities ?

Answer - These could be some of the following reason for the migration of people from villages to cities ?

 1-The grip of the traditional caste system...

2-Establishment of industrial units in cities...

3-Urban glare...

4-Lack of education and literacy...

5-Lack of employment and basic facilities...

6-Establishment of a society based on equality and justice...

7-Providing employment opportunities...

8 -providing basic amenities

9- Some  educated people migrates from villages to cities to maintain their standard of living .

Question 2- would you agree with promise made to poor children are rarely kept ? why do you  think this happens in the incidents narrate in the text ?  

Answer- Yes, the promises made to poor children are very fulfilling. Such promises are made with false sympathy, but poor children wait for the fulfillment of those promises. In this lesson, the author asks the Saheb to go to school, sahib says that there is no school near me, when it is built, I will go.

The author says in a joking tone that if I open the school, you will come to study.

So sir says I will come.

After a few days, the sahib asks the writer, is your school ready. The writer says that it takes a long time to build a school, she was very embarrassed by the promise she made

Question 3- What force conspire to keep the workers in the bangle industry of Firozabad in poverty ? .

Answer- 1- Poverty Trap - The bangle laborer is trapped in the web of poverty. Poverty has crushed their ability to initiate, they do not want to do anything else. They think corn we can only make bangles.

There is no leader among them, no one to explain them, there is no such person who can help them. Poverty has crushed their self-confidence so that they can see things from a different perspective, they say that if they get organized, the police will beat them for doing some illegal work, and will put them in jail.

2-The viscious circle  - The moneylender policemen who enforce the law, officers and politicians keep those laborers trapped in their corrupt circle and they do not let those people out of that trap.

Talking About The Text 

Question 1- How in your opinion, can Mukesh realise his dream ?

Answer - There is a saying that where desire is the way, Mukesh can make his dream come true because there are many such things which will go on opening the way to success.

1- His dream - Mukesh wants to become his own boss. He says, I will be a motor worker. "

2- His approach - He thinks that he can do other work His approach is different from that of his family towards his situation.

3- His self-respect - His house is located in the slum of the bangle maker, he voluntarily takes the writer home. It is that his house is being built.

4- His initiative to move forward - The writer sees Mukesh as such a boy. Which has the power to take the initiative to move forward.

5- His determination - his determination to become a motor artisan

These qualities will help Mukesh realise his dream his and he will be motor  artisan one day .

Question 2- Mention The hazard of working in the glass bangles industry ?

Answer- There is a cottage industry in Firozabad making glass bangles. Many generations of the family were spent in making glass bangles.

The bangle makers are the poor people who live in the slum, they have to come through the narrow streets which smell very bad and the garbage is full of garbage. The walls of his house are broken. In these huts, their family and animals live together in the same house.

Parents work in glass furnaces whose tenacity is very high, that is a very bad condition of the worker, where those people work there is neither air nor any light. They work hard throughout the day, it is illegal to engage children in such dangerous work, but they are working in connivance with the policemen, law enforcement officers. Workers make round bangles  by melting colored glass. The people working in the glass factory suffer a lot of physical and mental damage and they do not even get proper wages, that is why they spend their whole life in poverty.

Question  3- Why should child labour be eliminated and how ?

Answer- Child labour is a blot on our civilized society. The most harmful and disgusting form of child labour is seen in the unorganized sector like beedi manufacturing, glass industry, match factory, brick manufacturing, cracker manufacturing, glass bangle making industries.

The children here work in a very dangerous environment, they are not given wages according to their work, they have to be deprived of good clothes, good food, house to live, lack of education, all this. Due to these industries, the childhood of the children living there has been lost, that is why it is very important that child labor should be ended. 

Short Answer Type Question 

Question 1-why did ,Anees jung , ask Saheb about the school ? What was its impact on Saheb?

Answer 1- Anees Jung asked Sahib about the school as Sahib replied to him that he had nothing but hope of being a waste picker. The effect of this on Saheb was that he was very curious about the school and he also promised him that he would go to school if anyone built it.

Question 2- Why did Saheb and other ragpickers not were chappals ? what excuse did they they give for it ?

Answer- Saheb and the other waste pickers did not have slippers as it was their tradition and the boys simply replied that their mother did not bring them from the shelf.

Question 3- how many ragpickers used to live in Seemapuri ,Delhi? How did they settle there ?

Answer - 10,000 rag pickers lived in Seemapuri, Delhi The rag pickers were from Dhaka, Bangladesh. His house and farm were destroyed by the storm and he reached Seemapuri here.

Question 4 - what was the meaning  was garbage for children ? what did they find in it ?

Answer- The meaning of garbage to the children was wrapped in surprise. They found one rupee or ten rupee note. And sometimes silver coins.

Question 5 - why did Saheb join the job at milk booth ? what was he paid  for his service ? 

Answer 5- Saheb joined a job at Milk Booth as he needed more money and food for that. He was paid Rs 800 for his service.

Question 6- who was Mukesh ? Where did he belong and what was he ambition ?

Answer- Mukesh was the son of a poor family whose father was a poor bangle maker in Firozabad. His ambition was to become a motor mechanic.

Question 7- why did Mukesh volunteer to take the narrator home? who were there in the home ?

Answer -Mukesh voluntarily asked the narrator to take him home as he was feeling very happy and proud to rebuild his house. Mukesh's father, his grandmother, elder brother and his wife were in the house.

Question 8 - "it is his Karam , his destiny ." Who said this and why ?

Answer - M ukesh Dadi said this, "It is her karma, her destiny as she has seen her husband being billed with the dust of the glass of the bangle. Born in the caste of bangle making, he saw nothing but bangles.

Question 9- what does the bangles symbolizes ? what is the role of bangles makers of Firozabad ?

Answer - The bangle is a symbol of an Indian female suhaag, auspiciousness in marriage.

Question 10 - Why could the bangles makers not organise themselves into a co-oprative ? what do they face if they do so ?  

Answer - Can't make bangles themselves into co-operatives as they fall into the vicious circle of middlemen. If they do so they will be harassed, beaten up and dragged by the police for failing to do something illegal.  

LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTION 

Question 1- Who was Saheb ? What was the plight that compel him to wander in streets of Delhi for regpicking ?

Answer - Saheb was a rag picker who had left Dhaka and came in search of gold in the big city of Seemapuri. His house and the lush green grounds of Dhaka were destroyed by the storm. The memory of their homes was not far away. Sahib was a very poor child, so he left Dhaka city and came to Seemapuri, Delhi in search of gold or money. Now he became a rag picker and wandered here and there in the street of Delhi in search of coins in the garbage heap.

Question 2- Children like Saheb often go for private jobs in very small age. Is this their final destiny ? How can such situation be overcome ?

Answer - Children like Saheb often go to private jobs at a very young age in search of money. The income of his parents is very less. They don't have enough food to eat. In such a situation, their children keep wandering here and there in search of private jobs. Children also become waste pickers at a very young age. They lose all their lives in private jobs without independence. Such a situation can be overcome by government legislation. We should not give burden of child labor. This age is only education for them and we should give them proper food clothes and education.

Question 3- Who was Mukesh ? What did he want to do in his life and what did he not want to follow ? 

Answer - Mukesh was the son of a poor family whose father was a poor bangle maker in Firozabad. He wanted to become a motor mechanic in his life. So he said he wanted to drive a car. He wanted to be his master. Her dream looms like a mirage among the dust of the street that fills her city of Firozabad for her bangles.

Every other family in Firozabad is engaged in making bangles. Mukesh's dream was different from his parents' business as a bangle maker in Firozabad. He did not want to follow his family business of bangle making in Firozabad. Mukesh did not want to accept his sad life as his parents.

Question 4- What did the narrator notice in the locality where Mukesh lived ? What was the condition of bangles makers ?

Answer - The narrator noticed that the streets were very smelly and with crumbling walls, shaky doors, windowless.

In that house a family of humans and animals lived together. The condition of bangle makers in Firozabad was very pathetic. He worked in high-temperature glass furnaces in dinghy cells without air and light. Their eyes adjust more to darkness than to outside light.

This is why they often lose their eyesight before reaching adulthood. They spend their whole life in making bangles. But still they are poor, they haven't had a complete meal even once in their entire life time. Such was the condition of bangle making in Firozabad

Question 5- Every other house in Firozabad is engaged in glass industry . in every other yard, there finds the spiral of bangles. even then the makers remain in miserable condition . what are the reason ? Explain with the suggestions to overcome this situation .  

Answer - Firozabad is famous for its bangles. Every family of Firozabad makes bangles. A spiral of bangles is found in every yard. Even the Makers live in pathetic condition as they were very poor. Apart from making bangles, they do no other work. They were illiterate. He followed the same course of action as his ancestor. They did not have enough money and food to eat.

Some tips to overcome this situation -->

The life of bangle makers can improve if they are educated and think differently and make cooperative with the help of their people.

Question 6- what is vicious circle of middlemen ? how are they trapped since the time of their forefathers ? can they get organised ? if not, why ? Explain .

Answer - This vicious circle is a trap of middlemen since the time of our ancestors. They cannot be organized because if they want to organize, they will be halved by the police, cleaned up and put in jail for doing something illegal. Neither of them has a leader who can help them see things differently. They were exploited by moneylenders, middlemen, policemen, law-keeping bureaucrats and politicians. so that they can organize.