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An Elementary School Classroom In A Slum

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Belled, flowery, Tyrolese valley. Open-handed map

Awarding the world its world.

And yet, for these

Children, these windows, not this world, are world,

Where all their future’s painted with a fog,

A narrow street sealed in with a leady sky,

Far far from rivers, capes and stars of words.

The windows are the slum children’s world because:

 

  • they remain imprisoned in the school

     

  • they cannot move beyond them

     

  • they never go on outings

     

  • they stand no chances of going abroad

Solution

B.

they cannot move beyond them

 

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