Think as you read
1.What makes the city of Firozabad famous?
Answer: Firozabad is famouse for it’s bangles. Most families in firozabad are engaged in making bangles. it is the centre of India’s glass-blowing industry, where families work around furnaces, welding glass and making bangles.
2.Mention the hazards of working in the glass bangles industry?
Answer: Workers in the glass bangle industry have to work in very high temperture around the glass furnances. They work in dinky cells without air and light. They don’t get any daylight.Thus they lose the brightness of their eyes. The power from the polishing of bangles also blinds them.
3.How is Mukesh’s attitude to his situation different from that of his family?
Answer: Mukesh took birth in the caste of bangle makers. For Mukesh’s grand mother it was ‘God given lineage’ Which was not breakable. But mukesh does not show any fascination for bangle making. He wants to become a motor mechanic, that why he wants to go to a garage. He also wants to learn to drive a car . In these regards, Mukesh’s attitude to his situation is totally different from that of his family.
Additonal questions and answer
1.What are the two different worlds in Firozabad?
Answer: There are two distinct and diverged worlds in Firozabad. In one world,
the people like Mukesh’s family and others live in the continuing bondage of
poverty. And the other world is composed of Sahukars and middlemen who
spread the trap of bondage of poverty.
2.Why is Mukesh’s dream a mirage?
Answer: The people of Firozabad are trapped in the bondage of poverty. To earn
their bread, they work in glass factories. They are put into the trap by the Sahukars
and the middlemen. So the years of mind numbing toil have killed all initiative
and the ability to dream. So Mukesh’s dream is a mirage.
3.What is the significance of bangles in an Indian -society?
Answer: The bangles hold a sacred position in Indian society. The bangles are treated
special for married women. The bangles symbolize an Indian woman’s suhaag,
auspiciousness in marriage.
4.Why doesn’t Mukesh ever dream of flying a plane?
Answer: One can dream of what he or she is surrounded by. Mukesh developed a
dream to become a motor mechanic by looking at the cars moving through the streets
of Firozabad. But only a few aero planes fly through the sky of Firozabad.
5.What kinds of bangles are made in Firozabad?
Answer: In Firozabad, glass bangles are made which are of different colors.
Multicolor spiral bangles of sunny gold, paddy green, royal blue, pink, purple and
others are crafted in Firozabad.
7.Why does Mukesh’s grandmother believe that a ‘god-given lineage’ can never
be broken?
Answer: The art of making bangles is an ancestral craft for the people of Firozabad.
So they believe it’s a god given lineage and they do not want to break the custom.
The skill of making bangles helps to earn bread for them. So Mukesh’s grandmother
believes that the god given lineage cannot be broken.
8.Why do the children in Firozabad often lose their eyesight even before they
become adults?
Answer: The children in Firozabad often lose their eyesight even before they become
adults because they work in bangle factories from a very tender age. The working
environment of the bangle factories is drastic, unhygienic and they have to work in
the low light areas sitting before hot furnaces.
9.who is Mukesh?
Answer: Mukesh is the son of a poor bangle maker in Firozabad, where every other family is engaged in making bangles. His poor father has failed to renovate his house or send his two sons to school.
10.Where does mukesh lived?
Answer: Mukesh lives in Firozabad.
11.Why is Mukesh proud to take the author to his home ?
Answer: Mukesh proud to take the author to his home Because his house was rebuild.
12.Who is in charge of Mukesh’s house hold?
Answer: The wife of mukesh’s elder brother was in charge of Mukesh’s house hold.
13.What is the ‘karam’ of Mukesh’s father according to his grandmother?
Answer: According to his grandmother working in the glass factory is the ‘karam’ or destiny of Mukesh’s father.
14.What was Mukesh’s dream? Did he achieved his dream?
Answer: Mukesh’s dream is to become a motor-mechanic. It is no doubt difficult for mukesh to achieve his dream,as he tour between his desire and his family tradition, which he can not escape.
Besides, he has to face a number of obstacles in the form of sahukars, middelemen, law makers, politicians etc. However, he will to work hard,and his strong determination could make him achieve his dream.
15.How is Mukesh attitude towards his situation different from that of saheb Why?
Answer: Mukesh’s attitude was much different from that of saheb. Mukesh was optimistic about a bright future unlike saheb. Saheb had simple dreams. But mukesh had a clear dream of becoming a motor mechanic and he was very determined to fulfill thid dream.
16.Who is Savita?
Answer: In the chapter ‘Lost Spring’ by Aness Jung, Savita is a young,Unmarried girl
who belongs to a family of a bangle makers in Firozabad. In thise chapter author say that she sits alongside an elderly women, soldering pieces of glass, As her hands move mechanically like the tongs of a machine.
17.Why should child labour be eliminated and how?
Answer: Child labour should be eliminated because it takes away from the child his childhood and take the prospect of elementary education.Moreover since the child labourers are cheap, and consequently engaged in hazardous and dangerous employment, they are often vlunerable to mental and physical illness.
18.What kinds of bangles are made in Firozabad?
Answer: They are made several colours of rainbow such as sunny gold, paddy green, yellow, sky blue, royal blue, red, orange and many more of coloures are being manufacture by small children, who are forced to work in their childhood.
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