Question

What sort of work was Velu used to? Was Velu smart to accept the job offered to him by Jaya?

Answer 1

Explanation: The story "Children at work”

• Velu was a 11 year old boy in the above story.
• He ran away from his house to escape the misdeed of his father.
• His father was a drunkard and used to snatch away all the money earned by him and his sister and even beat them.
• He worked as a labour on a landowner's farm which involved grazing cows and weeding.

Velu accepting the offer made by Jaya

• He ran away from his house and boards the Kanyakumari Express train which brings him to Chennai.

• He started feeling miserable and was very hungry.
• He had no money and had been living for past two days on some peanuts.
• While sitting on the platform he came across a girl named Jaya who was of his age.
• She was picking up plastic cups and keeping them into the big sack which she was carrying at her back.
• Jaya was moved by the miserable condition of Velu and got some food for him.
• She then takes Velu to her hut and provide him with a sack, stick and a pair of old shoes.
• Velu was smart enough to accept the job of a ragpicker offered by  Jaya as he was all alone in the city of Chennai and was homeless.
• He had no other option but to accept the offer.

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