Question

Velu a little boy was the victim of the circumstances. explain in your own words​

Answer 1

He was a victim as he ran from his home and later also became a ragpicker.

• The question has been asked from the story Children At Work
• Velu was eleven years old when he left home due to his father being alcoholic and violent.
• He arrived in Chennai and met a girl his own age. On her back, the girl was holding a large sack. She was loading plastic cups into the sack when she picked them up.
• When she saw him in such a bad state, she felt sorry for him and got him some food. He was also taken to her hut, where she gave him pair of old shoes, a sack, and a stick.
• He was curious as to what she had in mind, she told him that he, too, was now a ragpicker. Velu was all by himself in the big city. He had no choice but to take the role of ragpicker