- Action, Linking, and Auxiliary Verb: Definitions, Functions, and Examples
- Correct Use of Verbs
- Correct Use of Preposition
- Present Perfect vs. Present Perfect Continuous Tense
- Uses of Articles (A, An, The)
- Active and Passive Voice
- Indefinite and Definite Articles: Definition and Examples
- Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives
- Comparison of Adjectives & Adverbs: Examples, Sentences & Exercises
- Adjectives
- Irregular Verbs with Examples
- Modal Auxiliary Verb
- Use of Modal Verbs
- Compound Antecedents: Definition & Examples
- What is an Antecedent? Definition, Meaning & Examples
- What Are Collective Nouns?
- What Are Possessive Nouns? Examples, Definition & Types
Comprehensive English: Sentence Structure: Understanding Grammar
- Parts of Speech
- Degree of Comparison
- Difference Between Direct & Indirect Objects in Sentence Structure
- Gerunds: Are They Verbs? Are They Nouns?
- Conjunction vs. Preposition
- Combining Dependent & Independent Clauses
- Conjunctions: Coordinating & Correlative
- Complex Subject-Verb Agreement: Inverted Order, Compound Subjects & Interrupting Phrases
- Point of View: First, Second & Third Person
Comprehensive English: Organization
- Organizational Patterns for Writing: Purpose and Types
- How to Write an Essay
- How to Write Strong Transitions and Transitional Sentences
- Writing: Main Idea, Thesis Statement & Topic Sentences
- Paragraphs: Definition & Rules
Comprehensive English: Writing Mechanics
Comprehensive English: Figurative Language
- Allusion and Illusion: Definitions and Examples
- Narrators in Literature: Types and Definitions
- What is a Metaphor? Examples, Definition & Types
Comprehensive English: Writing Assessment Tools & Strategies
- Qualities of Good Assessments: Standardization, Practicality, Reliability & Validity
- Forms of Assessment
- Self-Assessment in Writing: Definition & Examples
- How to Set a Grading Rubric for Literary Essays
- Standard Score: Definition & Examples
- Raw Score: Definition & Explanation
- How to Create a Writing Portfolio
Comprehensive English: Effective Listening & Speaking
Comprehensive English: Developing Word Identification Skills
English: Class 6 : Honey Suckle
- The Banyan Tree
- Desert Animals
- A Game of Chance
- Fair Play
- Who I Am
- A Different Kind of School
- An Indian-American Woman in Space: Kalpana Chawla
- How the Dog Found Himself a New Master
- Who Did Patrick’s Homework
English: Class 6 : Poem
English: Class 6 : A Pact with the sun
- A Strange Wrestling Match
- What Happened to the Reptiles
- A Pact with the Sun
- The Wonder Called Sleep
- The Monkey and the Crocodile
- Tansen
- The Old Clock Shop
- The Shepherd’s Treasure
- The Friendly Mongoose
- A Tale of Two Birds
English: Class 7 : Honeycomb
English: Class 7: Alien Hand
- An Alien Hand
- A Tiger in the House
- The Bear Story
- Chandni
- I Want Something in a Cage
- Golu Grows a Nose
- The Cop and the Anthem
- The Desert
- Bringing Up Kari
- The Tiny Teacher
English: Class 7: Poem
- Garden Snake
- Meadow Surprises
- Dad and the Cat and the Tree
- Mystery of the Talking Fan
- Trees
- Chivvy
- The Shed
- The Rebel
- The Squirrel
English: Class 8: Honey Dew
- The Great Stone Face II
- The Great Stone Face I
- A Short Monsoon Diary
- A Visit to Cambridge
- This is Jody’s Fawn
- The Summit Within
- Bepin Choudhury’s Lapse of Memory
- Glimpses of the Past
- The Best Christmas Present in the World
English: Class 8: Poem
English: Class 8: It so happened
- Ancient Education System of India
- The Comet — II
- The Comet — I
- Jalebis
- The Open Window
- The Fight
- The Treasure Within
- The Selfish Giant
- Children At Work
English: Class 9: Beehive
- Kathmandu
- If I were You
- The Bond of Love
- Reach for the Top
- Packing
- My Childhood
- The Snake and the Mirror
- A Truly Beautiful Mind
- The Sound of Music
- The Fun They Had
English: Class 9: Poem
English: Class 9: Moments
- A House Is Not a Home
- The Last Leaf
- Weathering the Storm in Ersama
- The Happy Prince
- In the Kingdom of Fools
English: Class 10: First Flight
- The Proposal
- The Sermon at Banaras
- Madam Rides the Bus
- Mijbil the Otter
- Glimpses of India
- The Hundred Dresses - II
- The Hundred Dresses - I
- From the Diary of Anne Frank
- Two Stories about Flying
- Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom
- A Letter to God
English: Class 10: Poem
English: Class 10: Foot prints
English: Class 10: Supplementary : Prose
English: Class 10: Supplementary: Poetry
English: Class 11:Hornbill
- Silk Road
- The Adventure
- The Browning Version
- The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role
- Landscape of the Soul
- Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues
- We’re Not Afraid to Die..if We Can All Be Together
- The Portrait of a Lady
English: Class 11: Supplementary
- The Tale of Melon City
- Birth
- The Ghat of the Only World
- Albert Einstein at School
- Ranga’s Marriage
- The Address
- The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
English: Class 11: Poem
- 2Ajamil and the Tigers
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Felling of the Banyan Tree
- Refugee Blues
- For Elkana
- Hawk Roosting
- Mother Tongue
- The World is too Much With Us
- Telephone Conversation
- Coming
- Let me Not to the Marriage of True Minds
- The Peacock
English: Class 12: Prose
- Going Places
- The Interview
- Poets and Pancakes
- Indigo
- The Rattrap
- Deep Water
- Lost Spring
- The Last Lesson
English: Class 12: Supplementary
Chapter Summary
The “Lost Spring” is a story of the pathetic condition of the poor children. This story discusses the children who cannot enjoy their childhood due to their family pressure as well as the financial crisis. All over the world, this problem can be seen and the children do not get the schoopng opportunity. In their early pfe, the children were forced to enter the labour industry. Any kind of education, as well as enjoyment, is not at all entered their pfe.
In this story, writer Anees Jung raised a voice for the epmination of child labour. Jung proposed to omit this by increasing awareness among the society people as well as regulating some strict laws about child labour. The exploitation of children is also a principal topic of this story and according to the author; the children can enjoy their childhood and enjoy the spring to make fun.
Some of the Reasons for Migration of People from Villages to Cities
The principal reason to migrate people from the rural area to cities is the hope of improving their pvephood as well as economic status. Agriculture, which is their primary means of pvephood and it does not provide sufficient meals for their survival. In the other case, coming to the city they get a job and other ways to acquire their food and other necessities. The principal problem for the poor is feeding the whole family and sometimes all the family members have to search for means of income for the betterment of their pfestyle.
Would you agree that promises made to poor children are rarely kept? Why do you think this happens in the incidents narrated in the text?
Most of the time, the promises were made by the poor are not at all kept. In the story, the author questioned this fact and told Saheb for getting admission to school if he agrees to study. After some days, when the author met the boy, the author feels very embarrassed as a kind of promise was not fulfilled to him at all. Then she thought, she was not the only man who could fulfil the promise but pke her most people failed to keep the promise that they have made to the poor. Here, the poor children failed to get the basic facipties and promises were also broken to them as well.
What forces conspire to keep the workers in the bangle industry of Firozabad in poverty?
There is certain force that guides to conspire for keeping all the workers in the bangle industry of Firozabad in terms of poverty. The forces mainly come from the upper classes of society pke the moneylender, the middlemen as well as the popcemen. Besides this, the keepers of law along with bureaucrats as well as the popticians are also involved in this fact. They imposed a great burden on the poor child together and they were deprived of the beginning of the period and it continues till now.
How, in your opinion, can Mukesh reapse his dream?
Mukesh is totally different from their community and he is very adamant about his dream. He tried all the means to fulfil it and for that case, he also took the first step that makes a big change not only in his personal pfe but in society also. His dream was to be a motor mechanic and drive a car. He was determined about his dream and work hard to fulfil his dream. There are several obstacles that come in the way to fulfilpng his dream but he never stopped. He went to the garage for the first time and requested the garage owner to guide him to be a good mechanic. Another determination of his can be seen in terms of driving a car as well.
In this story, through the pfe journey of Mukesh, the author displayed the actual situation of the poor children in society as well as in this story the author also displayed how a poor boy has to struggle against all the obstacles to fulfil his journey. The family members and society people did not help him at all but created some challenging situations in the way of fulfilpng his journey. He had to work hard and manage all the situations to overcome the obstacles.
Hazards of Working in the Glass Bangles Industry
The glass bangles industry includes several health hazards especially for the small children. First of all, it is not legal to recruit very young children in such hazardous industries as there is a great chance for them for seriously injured. In this story, middlemen, moneylenders, popce and popticians make a trap for the poor and small children in terms of working in this industry. It refers to as a cottage industry where they have to work with glass furnaces with high temperatures. The small coupe of the industry is without air and pght. In this industry, the workers had to work in flames of fpckering oil lamps. So there is a great chance for them losing their eyesight. Other types of health hazards that are faced by this industry labour are glass blowing, welding and soldering pieces of glass.
Why should child labour be epminated? How can it be epminated?
The child labour must be omitted from the industry with the process of the prospect of elementary education. As the child labour has worked more than their physical abipty so there is a great chance of mental and physical illness. In order to epminate the child labour from the different industries by increasing awareness among the society people as well as regulation of some strict laws is very important.
FAQs
Q1. What is child labour?
Ans. If the age of labour in any industry is under 18 years then those labours are called child labour and it is mostly seen in underdeveloped and developing countries. The main reason for this problem is poverty.
Q2. How child labour can be omitted?
Ans. The child labour can be omitted by increasing awareness among the society people as well as regulation of some strict laws. In the current situation, most of the country has regulated some laws for epminating the child labour issues in multiple industries.
Q3. What is the actual cause of child labour?
Ans. The actual cause of child labour is poverty as in underdeveloped count a major part of the population was on the poverty pne then the child of the family has to work in different industries for maintaining their pvephood. The constant pressure of the upper class forced them to this aspect.