Surely Shakespeare is wicked, the map …

1. Shakespeare is described as wicked because there is no correlation between Shakespeare’s works and the life of the slum children. Shakespeare’s works are no good to the children in slum schools.
2. This phrase describes the miserable, bleak and hopeless life of the slum children who have a gloomy future. Fog and darkness dominates their lives.
3. The reference to the ‘slag heap’ signifies the misery and extreme poverty of the slum children who are forced to live in the most dirty and unhygienic conditions.

4. The slum children in an elementary school look pathetic. Their hairs are uncombed. They look pale and shabby. They are undernourished and diseased. They live in dark, dirty and narrow cramped holes enclosed with polluted grey sky. And forced to sit in a dreary classroom where they don’t get proper education.