Far far from gusty waves these children’s faces. Like rootless weeds, the hair tom around their pallor.

Question

Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow:

Far far from gusty waves these children’s faces. 

Like rootless weeds, the hair tom around their pallor. 

The tall girl with her weighed-down head. The paper

seeming boy, with rat’s eyes. The stunted, unlucky heir 

Of twisted bones, reciting a father’s gnarled disease, 

His lesson from his desk. 

(a) Where do these children live? 

(b) What is the condition of these children? 

(c) Why is the boy unlucky heir? 

(d) Why has the girl bowed her head?

Answer 1

(a) The children live a is slum a far away from the gusty waves of the sea. 

(b) They have pale faces, torn hair scattered on faces, weak and thin like paper and having rat’s eyes with twisted bones. 

(c) He is called unlucky heir because he is suffering from the hereditary gnarled disease. 

(d) The girl has bowed down her head out of depression or due to the burdens of life.