The Lost Spring: The Theme of The Chapter Is The Grinding Poverty and The Traditions Which Condemn Poor
The Lost Spring: The Theme of The Chapter Is The Grinding Poverty and The Traditions Which Condemn Poor
The Lost Spring: The Theme of The Chapter Is The Grinding Poverty and The Traditions Which Condemn Poor
ENGLISH CORE
BOOK: FLAMINGO
CHAPTER 1-THE LOST SPRING
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The theme of the chapter is the grinding poverty and the traditions which condemn poor
children to a life of exploitation. The two stories taken together depict the plight of street
children forced into labour early in life and denied the opportunity of schooling. The story,
“Lost Spring” deals with the pitiful situation of poor kids who get driven to lead a miserable life
and abstain the joyous times of childhood because of their social circumstances. These kids are
not given the chance of education and are enforced to start working early in life. The writer
Anees Jung attempts hard to eradicate child labor through her writing. She propagates the
education of kids and the implementation of stringent regulations against child labor by the
administration. The message was communicated so that end to child exploitation can be
achieved and all kids experience their days of the spring and happiness.
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The story unfolds through the voice of the author Anees Yung .
Born in Rourkela, Anees hails from an aristocratic family in Hyderabad – her father, Nawab
Hosh Yar Jung, was a renowned scholar and poet, and served as the musahib (adviser) to the
last Nizam (prince) of Hyderabad State. Her mother and brother are also Urdu poets. After
schooling and college at Osmania University in Hyderabad, she went to the United States for
higher studies at University of Michigan Ann Arbor, where she did her Masters in Sociology and
American Studies.
She started her career in writing with the Youth Times, a Times of India publication, where she
worked as a journalist and editor (1976 to 1979). She has subsequently worked for the Christian
Science Monitor and International Herald TribuneAnees Jung lives in Delhi.
Books
Jung published Unveiling India in 1987. It is a travel diary focusing on interviews with women.
She has written several subsequent books on the same, talking to women about their everyday
lives, including Night of the New Moon: Encounters with Muslim women in India. (1993), Seven
Sisters (1994). Breaking the Silence (1997) is based on conversations on women's lives from
around the world. Beyond the Courtyard (2003) is based on interviews with the daughters of
the women she had talked to first in Unveiling India, and many of the horrifying tales continue.
Anees Jung's Lost Spring: Stories of stolen childhood (2005) focuses on children from deprived
backgrounds, and includes the story of Idrees, a child who is kidnapped and forced to work in
the carpet industry in Mirzapur. Others are maltreated by alcoholic fathers or married off early
or sexually abused, though some find refuge in schools set up by well-meaning NGOs. A section
of this book is part of the English curriculum. Jung is noted for her lively and vivid descriptions.
Other books by Jung include ‘When a place becomes a person ‘(1977) and The Song of India
(1990).
Over the past decades, though, many reasons have been inferred towards this peculiar South
Asian behaviour. For instance, India’s reluctance to accept refugees could be attributed to the
international community’s response to its call for assistance while dealing with lakhs of people
who had arrived here after fleeing Bangladesh in 1971.
Reasons are mainly political, but those who came in due to economic crisis from Bangladesh
have also fallen victim and are not given citizenship.
3. How is Mukesh’s attitude to his situation different from that of his family?
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