Holiday Homework

Answer the following questions?

1. Why does the poet look out at the sprinting trees and the merry children
spilling out of their homes?
2. Why are the trees spoken of to be sprinting?

3.What is the mother’s face compared to?

4.What is the poet’s childhood fear?
5.What is the ‗familiar ache that the poet refers to?
6. Why does the poet smile?
7.Explain the lesson 'Lost Spring" is a realistic portrayal of the lives of the
street children.

8. Compare and contrast the characters of Saheb and Mukesh.

9. Poverty is a vicious circle for poor slum dwellers and bangle makers.
Comment in the light of 'Lost Spring.'
10.How do Charley's wife Louisa and his friend Sam react to the narrator '
observation?

11.What do you learn about Galesburg, Illinois during 1894 ?

12.What do you know about the 'First Day Cover '?

13.What strange experience did Charley have on the day when he went to the
Grand Central Station?

14.How the narrator was convinced that he had come to the Third level?

15.Why did the clerk refuse to accept the money?

16.Who was Sam? What had happened to him?

17.What role does Sam's letter play in the story?

18.What do you think that Charley moved to the Third Level?