Question

PRACTICE QUESTIONS - (125 to 150 words each)
Spring' explains the grinding poverty and traditions that condemn thousands
of people to a life of abject poverty. Do you agree? Why / Why not?​

Answer 1

Explanation:

The lesson ‘Lost Spring’ describes the pathetic condition of the bangle-makers. On the one hand, it is the plight of the street children forced into labour early in life and denied the opportunity of studying in schools. The glass industry has its own hazards. The illegal employment of very young children and the pathetic working conditions leads to many children becoming blind. They work in glass furnaces with high temperatures. Their dingy cells have no light, nor any ventilation. Boys and girls work under these conditions while welding pieces of coloured glass to make bangles. Their eyes are more adjusted to the dark than to the light outside.