Saheb is a ragpicker. Garbage is wrapped in wonder for him. He is looking for ' gold' in the garbage dumps. Sometimes he finds a rupee ,even a ten rupee note. If luck favours,he can find a silver coin too.There is always hope of finding more.

Sahib was looking for any precious thing like metal or a coin in the heap of the garbage.so, that he can sell that precious metal and earn his living for his family he was having a lot of responsibilities.

Saheb is a ragpicker lived in outskirts of Dheli. He was lived with thousands of ragpickers. He was come from Dhaka. In garbage dumps he always looking forgold. Sometimes he found rupee s, silver coin and he also hope of found ing gold in garbage dumps.

Stephen has very craftly picturised the slum school children of Tyrol. Their faces are pale, depressed and broken. Their untidy hair cover their faces like rootless weeds. They are physically weak with small eyes like rats. They are stunted, bony and diseased.

Yes this statement is true the slum children was living a very miserable life this is shown by following points
1. They were studying in a dark, dull, suffocated and boring classroom.
2.The dirty walls of the classroom represent the miserable and pale conditions of the children's life it seems that there whole life is journey in darkness.
3.They have no right to see dreams, they have no right to get education, they do not get any right to explore the world and saw the beauty of nature.
4.their broken spectacles shows that there whole life is shattered into pieces.

Sam's letter from the third level-Galesburg, July 18, 1894-to Charley read that initially, he had only hoped that Charley was right about the third level but now, he believed It. He had found the third level and had been there for two weeks. The third level was peaceful, hospitable, and welcoming. He wanted Charley and Louisa to join him there and wanted them to keep looking till they found it. The letter brought out the difference between the tranquil pre-World War era and the tension-ridden world of the present. Then there was warmth, hospitality, and simple pleasures. The clean carefree environment reflected the mood of the people. It was like paradise as compared to the insecure and worrisome life that one led later. Despite the material advantage, one would gladly exchange the current life for that life.

(a) These children are the students sitting in the elementary class in the slums

(b) The 'slag heap' refers to the bodies of these children.

(c) Their bones are peeping through their skins because these children are malnourished.

(d) 'Mended glass' means broken spectacles. This shows their poverty and inability to buy new glasses

First Day cover is a postage stamp on a cover , postal card or stamped envelope franked on the first day the issue is authorized for use within the country or territory of the stamp issuing authority .

Charley’s psychiatrist friend had believed that Charley had got the whims of third level as waking dream wish fulfilment. He had been only day-dreaming. Side by side he revealed that the third level was still there. In reality Charley upset from his dull life and wanted to escape.

The narrator met a psychiatrist because he was sure he had been on the third level of the Grand Central Station. He was also aware of the fact that only two levels of the station existed and the presidents of the rail road would even swear on a stack of timetables to prove this point. The need to meet a psychiatrist became urgent because he was in a dilemma.

25, Aram Bagh Road
Meerut
5 May, 20XX
The Secretary
Lions Club, Meerut
Sir
Sub: Acceptance of Invitation
Thanks for your invitation for a seminar on ‘Fundamental Rights of Children’, and your concern for the under-privileged children. I would like to utilise this opportunity to share my experiences with other like-minded enthusiasts and experts.
1 hereby confirm my participation in the seminar.
Yours sincerely
Akshya I Aakriti

Or

Sir
Sub: Inability to accept the invitation
Thank you very much for inviting me to participate in a seminar on ‘Fundamental Rights of Children’. I feel honoured and obliged. However, I shall not be able to accept your invitation due to some previous commitments which keep me confined to my place on that day.
Thanking you once again for your kind invitation.
Yours sincerely
Akshay / Aakrit

Independence Day Celebrations DAV International Sr. Sec. School, New Subhash Nagar, celebrated Independence Day with unprecedented patriotic fervour on Aug 14, 2017. The gamut of celebration activities held on the campus consisted of special morning assembly, poetry recitation, declamation contest, and impressive parade. The entire school assembled at the ground. The principal hoisted the Tricolor. The national anthem echoed in the entire campus.    After the anthem there was class-wise march past. Students marched in contingents to the beat of drum while the principal presided over it. After the march past, one act play highlighting the hanging of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, and Sukhdev brought tears to everyone’s eyes. The group song ‘Ai Mere Vatan Ke Logo’ filled everyone with pure patriotism.   At the end, the Chairman gave a speech reminding the students and the teachers of the sacrifices made by our great freedom fighters and made us take pledge that we would serve our motherland, India with heart, body, and soul to bring it glory and laurels with our dignified deeds. At the end the students were distributed sweets.

A. The poetess looked at her mother again because the security check at the airport had been done and it was time for her mother to leave. So, she wanted to take a last look at her mother’s face, for she knew that this was probably the last time she was seeing her alive.

B. No, the poet share her thoughts with her mother.

C. The poet felt the familiar ache of childhood when separated from her mother but restricted herself from expressing her emotions  and sharing her thoughts with her mother because she didn't want her mother to feel the same way about separating and wanted to leave her with a calm closure rather than with a turmoil of emotions which would have made the situation worse. So she maintained a smile and waved goodbye, with the hope of seeing her again.

D. The word ‘smile’ has been used repeatedly by the poet as behind her elongated smile she attempts to hide her fear and anxiety regarding her mother’s frail health. The poet smiled and smiled in an effort to reassure herself that she will be able to meet her mother again.

A. Classroom walls

B. The walls of the colour is “sour cream” that suggests of white but it has a sour smell. It exhibits the depression, dejection and disappointment on the faces of slum school children. These walls suggest the decaying aspect and thereby the slum children are too in the pitiable as well as miserable state of affairs. They need the attention of the civilized people.

C. People have donated different charts and images which have been put up on them. One of them is a picture Of the great playwright Shakespeare. His head is bald and resembles the rising Sun. The next poster is of the Tyrolese valley, full of churches and flowers which symbolizes the beautiful creations of nature. Another one is a map of the World. To these children the world is not the one shown in these pictures, but it is the one they see out of the class room window. They are trapped in the slums. Their future is dim and hopeless. 

D.  The rich and the dictators award and divide this world according to their will. Thus it is the world of rich and powerful people.

A. Classroom walls

B. The walls of the colour is “sour cream” that suggests of white but it has a sour smell. It exhibits the depression, dejection and disappointment on the faces of slum school children. These walls suggest the decaying aspect and thereby the slum children are too in the pitiable as well as miserable state of affairs. They need the attention of the civilized people.

C. People have donated different charts and images which have been put up on them. One of them is a picture Of the great playwright Shakespeare. His head is bald and resembles the rising Sun. The next poster is of the Tyrolese valley, full of churches and flowers which symbolizes the beautiful creations of nature. Another one is a map of the World. To these children the world is not the one shown in these pictures, but it is the one they see out of the class room window. They are trapped in the slums. Their future is dim and hopeless. 

A.  “These windows, their world” refer to the narrow and filthy streets of the slums to which the lives of the slum children is confined. ..These children lead a life of disease and despair within these narrow streets.

B. These children belong to the world of the dirty and stinking slums with its narrow lanes and cramped holes. Their world is the world of poverty and disease. The world that is inaccessible to them is one which has high domes of buildings, the music of bells and the fragrance of flowers.

C. The future of the slum children is bleak and foggy, deprived of all the bounties of nature.

D. 

It means that the children of the slums, their life is only limited to the narrow street with the lead (bluish-grey) sky, indicating a dull and bleak world. Their world is limited and tempts children in a most cruel way.

Far away from the rivers and capes (away from the beautiful world and adventure offered by it) and stars of words (wisdom and empowerment of future).

 

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.

• Charley is the main character from Jack Finney’s book, The Third Level, a collection of short stories.

• The third level is a story about a man called Charley who yearns for a more idyllic, slower life than the hustle and bustle of the modern age.

• Charley wanted to go to Galesburg, a rural town in Illinois with his wife. It represented a simpler, easier, more idyllic life, an idyllic world to him.

In reality the Third Level is the creation of Charley's own mind, fantasy and whim. He is inhabiting in the modern world which is full of insecurity, fear, war, worries, stress and tension. He has to confront with them round the clock. The harsh realities of life are making our stay unpleasant and unbearable. There is a mental tension which is transforming our lives burdensome and heavy. Charley has an escapist mind. Even stamps collecting is a temporary refuge from reality. So he talks to his psychiatrist friend Sam about the third level at the Grand Central Station. He terms it as a “ waking-dream wish fulfilment.”
In this lesson even the writer Jack Finney interweaves Charley in the midst of fantasy and reality. The compulsions and realities of modern life make Charley escape into a world of fancy and romance. There is a refererence to his grand father's stamp collection of 1894 in the lesson. In those days there was peace as well as tranquility. So there was no need for escape. For Charley the Grand Central is an exit and he wanders down to the third level and finds himself into the world of 1894 which used to be a romantic living. So the Third Level is indirectly a mode of escape for Charley.

The fears, anxieties and insecurities of the modem world are taking a toll on man’s mind. He feels helpless and frustrated and seeks temporary respite from life’s harsh realities. Charley too was unable to cope up with his fastpaced and stressful life so his flight to the third level was undoubtedly a medium of escape for him. It is nothing but a creation of Charley’s own mind. He wants to escape from the modern world’s insecurity, fear, worries and stress and so seeks an exit, a medium to get away into the world of dreams and fancies.

The psychiatrist of Charley called him having a waking dream-wish-fulfilment. Since the Third Level was all his

fantasy, his wife Louisa too asked him not to look for the Third Level anymore. The narrator took to stamp collecting. One day while looking through his worthy collection, Charley noticed a "first day cover" which he believed not to have seen before. This cover was addressed to his grandfather and mailed to him at his home in Galesburg. It was on July 18, 1894. Definitely his grandfather must have put it in his collection and the same must be lying there since long. Since it was a "first day cover", consequently, it was not opened.

There was a blank paper in it. By chance Charley opened it. On opening it was found that it had a letter from Sam. He had reached Galesburg and was living very happily. He had found the place very charming, peaceful and serene. It was also written in the letter that Charley should come to Galesburg and look for the Third Level. In other words, the letter appeared to be Charley's imagination like his escape into the Third Level. The psychiatrist too had warned him that his stamp collection was a mode of escaping into the past.

The psychiatrist of Charley called him having a waking-dream-wish-fulfilment. Since the Third Level was all his fantasy, his wife Louisa too asked him not to look for the Third Level anymore. The narrator took to stamp collecting. One day while looking through his worthy collection, Charley noticed a “first day cover” which he believed not to have seen before. This cover was addressed to his grandfather and mailed to him at his home in Galesburg. It was on July 18, 1894. Definitely his grandfather must have put it in his collection and the same must be lying there since long. Since it was a “first day cover”, consequently, it was not opened.
There was a blank paper in it. By chance Charley opened it. On opening it was found that it had a letter from Sam. He had reached Galesburg and was living very happily. He had found the place very charming, peaceful and serene. It was also written in the letter that Charley should come to Galesburg and look for the Third Level. In other words, the letter appeared to be Charley's imagination like his escape into the Third Level. The psychiatrist too had warned him that his stamp collection was a mode of escaping into the past.

Charley told the psychiatrist about his belief in the existence of the third level at the Grand Central Station but was told that it was only a waking- dream wish fulfillment.

The psychiatrist also added that Charley was unhappy because of the insecurity, fear, war, worry and that he just wanted to escape just like everyone else.

Charley's psychiatrist and his friends said that his stamp-collecting was an indication of his desire to seek “a temporary refuge from reality”, as was his collection of first-day covers.

Charley describes Galesburg as a quiet, simple and peaceful place with big old frame houses, huge lawns and tremendous trees. The summer evenings were rather long and people sat out on their lawns in a peaceful world, men smoking cigars and women waving palm-leaf fans.

Grand Central Station, New York, has only two levels. One evening Charley reached this station and then walked down the second level to catch an early train to his home. While he was on the second level, he strangely happened to notice a doorway down. He followed the steps and reached the third level which was never heard or seen by anyone. In the third level Charley saw a hundred year old world and people