Topic: Picture Composition
Study the picture given below. Write in 10-12 points, of what it suggest to you. There
must be a clear connection between the picture and your point of views.
Note:- (Use both sides of the sheet, not to add any extra sheet for writing the
answer.)
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Answer:
The picture vividly portrays how a girl Lakshmi was made to work hard at breaking stones at the construction site. Even her mother and father used to work hard at the construction site toiling hard in the blazing sun from morning to evening carrying bricks and mortar from one place to another.
Lakshmi was the third child in the family of five children. Her mother was a poor labourer who worked at the nearby construction site along with her father. Lakshmi was 7 years old and used to accompany her parents to the construction site. One day, the manager at the construction site offered to employ Lakshmi at a meagre pay.
The small girl was forced to do hazardous work without proper compensation. She was risking her life just to keep her family’s body and soul together. So tragic is her condition that she had turned into a physical and mental wreck. Her weak and fragile body seemed to suffer from disease.
Lakshmi would keep breaking stones in a corner, crying and regretting her fate. Such was her misery that in the days when she should be going to school and playing; she had to work hard. Such was her irony that instead of smiles and carefreeness, her face was writ large with a worry for earning her bread.
This girl Lakshmi has become symbolic of all child labourers who are exposed to the difficulties of the world at such a tender age. It is a pity to see her shouldering the responsibilities of her family.
Child labour is another name which can be given to this picture. It is a serious blot in the efforts to project our nation as a dynamic country. The root cause of child labour is poverty and to some extent ignorance.
The government should thus realise the grimness of the situation and take strict actions to ban child labour.
Furthermore, this should be incentivised by the provision of education and vocational based skills training for each child in the poor families. The combination of the right information complemented by the right rewards will combat child labour and in the longer run, poverty.
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