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Answer the following question in 120-150 words:

Garbage to them is gold. How do ragpickers of Seemapuri survive?

Or

The peddler thinks that the whole world is a rattrap. This view of life is true only of himself and of no one else in the story. Comment.

Answer:

Garbage provides the rag-pickers with a means to survive. It is there daily bread. Sometimes they find currency notes or even silver coins in the heaps of garbage. For them, it is wrapped in wonder and this grabage is nothing less than gold for them.  Poor Rag picker like saheb spend their lives looking for gold in garbage dumps. The ragpickers of Seemapuri lived ?n structures of mud, tin and tarpaulin with no sewage or drainage for running water. Their parents have no fixed income. They wage war against poverty and hunger. They have to dream except finding the means of survival. These people have lived there for more than thirty years without an identity or permit. They have got ration cards that enable them to buy grains and get names on the voter list. For them, food is more important for survival than an identity, rag picking is the means of their survival.

Or

This view of life is universal. It is not true for just the peddler. It relates to everyone who was ever a victim of circumstances. The Peddler, a poor vagabond, marks and sells rattraps to make both ends meet. He even found a parable between the world and the rattrap. He had been living a despicable lire of misery, poverty and frustation, visualising the whole world to be a rattrap ready to engorge anyone who succumbed to the bots of its riches and joy. The world had been rather unkind to him, so he felt happy to think will about it. Despite the Crofters kindness and hospitality, he betrayed his trust and stole his money. But Edias compassion and understanding finally brought about a transformation in his nature. So, this situation cannot be judged in case of the Peddler only, rather in everyone who has been victim to this cruel and unkind society.