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Here is a 125 word speech on the topic: "Friends, having a desire in one's heart can help create one's own destiny. While our circumstances may seem set, it is up to each person to dream of something better and work to make it a reality. Mukesh desires to become a motor mechanic instead of continuing in the glass industry like his family. Though it will not be easy, with dedication and perseverance he can break from tradition and forge his own path. Saheb too dreams of playing tennis, not just finding coins in garbage. If we have hope and determination, we can overcome any obstacles or expectations placed upon us. Our future is in our hands - we must believe in ourselves and our abilities to change

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Lost Spring

Here is a 125 word speech on the topic: "Friends, having a desire in one's heart can help create one's own destiny. While our circumstances may seem set, it is up to each person to dream of something better and work to make it a reality. Mukesh desires to become a motor mechanic instead of continuing in the glass industry like his family. Though it will not be easy, with dedication and perseverance he can break from tradition and forge his own path. Saheb too dreams of playing tennis, not just finding coins in garbage. If we have hope and determination, we can overcome any obstacles or expectations placed upon us. Our future is in our hands - we must believe in ourselves and our abilities to change

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LOST SPRING

STORIES OF STOLEN CHILDHOOD


By Anees Jung
CHILD LABOR
• 152 million children worldwide are
victims of child labor
• 48 percent of all victims of child labor
are aged 5-11 years
• Children forced by their household
circumstances or other factors 
• under-reported forms of child labor
such as domestic service in private
households
Anees Jung, in her book LOST SPRING, highlights:

*Exploitation of Children
*Focuses attention towards child labor
About The Autho
r
 • Born in Rourkela, spent
her childhood and
adolescence in
Hyderabad
• Received education in
Hyderabad and U.S.
• Parents were writers
• Began her career as a
writer in India
Works Done

 • Editorof Youth Times


and columnist for major
newspaper in India and
abroad
• Authored books:
Unveiling India, Night Of
the New Moon, Seven
Sisters, Breaking The
Silence,etc…
Themes

• The plight of street children forced into labor


early in life and denied the opportunity of
schooling.
• Sub Theme: the callousness of society and the
political class to the sufferings of the poor
Story 1-: ‘sometimes I find a rupee in the
garbage’

Lives in
Seemapuri

9-10 Year
old SAHEB Bangladeshi

Ragpicker
Focal Points

• Migrants From Bangladesh: • left


green fields, rivers-no grain- storms
destroyed all • Migrants In
Seemapuri: • outskirts of Delhi-
‘near yet far’ • far symbolically-no
water in taps, no sewage, drainage,
no identity BUT migrants have a
ration card-name on voter’s list
• Saheb admires tennis player-gets
shoes-can’t dream of playing tha
game • Saheb-e-alam-means lord
of the universe-ironical • Saheb
represents thousands of RAG
PICKERS: • Barefeet • Scrounge
through garbage • Sometimes find
Saheb  a 10 rupee note or even a silver
coin • Love element of surprise
and suspense • Carefree life yet
burdened-childhood stolen•
Works for tea-stall owner • Earns
rs.800 • Feels bound, has a master
Story 2: ‘I want to drive a car’ 

Firozabad

Burdened working in
by stigma of Mukesh bangle
industry
cast

Wants to become motor


mechanic
 •Desires to become a
motor mechanic • Family in
Ferozabad, working in glass
blowing industry • Workers
In Industry: • 20000 children
Mukesh work near hot furnaces •
Barely enough food for
survival • Lost health,
eyesight • No joy-tradition
of same work • No change
possible
Resistance To Change

•Poverty, tradition • Social stigma • Social forces-law,


police, middlemen, politicians, bureaucrats, sahukars •
No leaders • Lack of attitude • Children burdened-
hence childhood stolen
Slog their daylight hours-work hard and steadily. •
Impose the baggage on the child-burden with
responsibility • Dark hutments-unhygienic
shelters/huts
List of Paradoxes
• ‘ Saheb -e- Alam ’
• ‘ Seemapuri ’
List of Similes
• “As her hands moved mechanically like the tongs
of the machines”
List of Metaphors
• ‘Web of poverty’
• ‘She stills has bangles on her wrist. But not light
in her eyes’
List of Hyperboles
• ‘Scrounging for gold’
• ‘Garbage to them is gold’
Assignment

“It is karam, his destiny.” Says Mukesh’s


grandmother.
Do you feel that a ‘God-given lineage’ can be
broken.? Can hope really bring forth a positive
change in one’s life? Why or why not? Write a
speech on ‘having a desire in ones heart can help
create ones own destiny’ in about 120 – 150 words.

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