Question

How does poet bring to light the brutalities related to chapter the elementary school class room in a slum

Answer 1

The poet brings to light the brutalities of slum life by drawing a stark and dismal image of the world of the slum children that is limited and can be seen though the windows of the classroom and not what the map promises. The misery and hopelessness of their life is all the more enforced when we see them living in cramped houses and their world being confined within the narrow streets of the slum enclosed by the dull sky far away from rivers, seas that indicate adventure and learning and from the stars that stand for words that can empower their future. Their emaciated wasted bodies are compared to waste heaped together that seem to be wearing the clothes of skin covering their peeping bones and wearing spectacles of steel with cracked glasses looking like bottle bits mended. The slum is their map as big as the doom of the city buildings, and their future is foggy, bleak and dull.

The slum children in spite of being a deprived lot, being denied the basic amenities of food, shelter and education, fight the battle of life courageously and live on against all odds. But their victories are never celebrated, which make them the unsung fighters.