(a) Which is their world? (b) How is their life different from that of other children

Question

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.

…………………and yet, for these Children, these windows, not this map, their world, 

Where all their future’s painted with a fog, 

A narrow street sealed in with a lead sky 

Far far from rivers, capes and stars of words.

(a) Which is their world?

(b) How is their life different from that of other children

Answer 1

(a) Their world is dark and gloomy environment of the classroom confined within the four walls and the narrow foggy lanes of their slums.

(b) Their life and future are bleak and hold little promise, whereas the other children have a more enlightened life and have been exposed to education.