Question

Tell me the summary and important points of the chapter lost child

Answer 1

IMPORTANT POINTS

• Children often get attracted by little things around them and press their parents to buy those things.
• Children might feel disappointed when their parents don’t fulfill their desires.
• However, in a situation like the one which the young boy finds himself in, one quickly realizes that all the material things cannot take the place of family.  
• Upon being separated from his parents, he immediately loses interest in everything that had attracted his attention before. He just wants his parents.
• The stranger is willing to buy the child all the things his heart had desired earlier, but the child remains inconsolable. He just wants his parents.

                                             SUMMARY

• The story is about the thrilling as well as frightful experiences of a small child who accompanies his parents to a village fair on the occasion of spring festival.  
• It vividly depicts Indian rural village with all its charm, pomp and gaiety especially during festive season.  The child is taken by the parents to a fair during spring season.  
• He is irresistibly drawn towards toys, flowers, balloons and the sweetmeats; but his parents do not buy any of the things he desires .
• The child wants to play, climb trees; catch the dragonflies; but again, his parents won’t let him do any of this.  
• Later, the child gets lost in the crowd and immediately panics. He begins to run around the fair, shouting for his parents.  
• A stranger finds him in a crowded shrine and lends a helping hand.  
• The gentleman offers goodies and rides in order to console the lost child, but the child will have none of them.  All these things which had appealed so much to the child are no longer attractive.  Instead, he only longs to meet his parents.

                                                                    GENRE

• The story appears to be didactic in nature.
• It has a moral - a lesson to teach its readers.
• It tells us that materialistic things might be attractive in the moment, however, ultimately, there is nothing more important than family.
• The child learns this lesson when he is separated from his parents and all the interesting things at the fair lose their charm. He just wants to be reunited with his parents.