Iqbal tries to stop child labor

What opinion about the world does Francesco D'Adamo express in the novel?

He is talking about how children should be able to go to school instead of working in labor. We have a chance to go to school and they don't. That's not fair.

They don't get to have a scholarship. When they grow up they can't have the desired traits.

MY name is Chatity, and these are my friends, landon burkes & Trista Vaughn. IN this presentation we are going to talk about a famous hero named Iqbal masih who tried to stop child labor. there are millions of children who suffered in the years from child labor and today, child labor is still going on.

Iqbal tries to stop child labor

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Our overall question

Iqbal's Death

"Iqbal was murdered on Easter Sunday in 1995. "He was killed by the Carpet Mafia" Eshan Khan declared"(in epilogue). "He was riding [his bike with his] friends [and] the [Carpet Mafia] shot him in the back with a 12 gauge shotgun" (moralheros.org/iqbal-masih).That was genuinely woeful.

This is Iqbal Masih

This is when Iqbal finished making his speech in the U.S.

Iqbal was enslaved under Hussian Khan working at a carpet weaving factory. It was a very hard life for him.

Author's purpose

Iqbal worked hard to try and stop child labor. He worked all day making carpets. One of his famous quotes were "Children should have pens in their hands, not tools"

(moralheros.org/iqbal-maish)

Introduction

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5 pieces of evidence

These are 2 people in labor. They probably did not have enough money to survive so they had to work in labor. The young girl probably can not have an education and if the older girl is a mother, she can not take care of her kids.

We think that the author's purpose was to stop Child labor. We think this because in the text it says, "today, more than two hundred million children between the ages five and seventeen are "economically active" in the world. about seventy-three million of these are under ten years of age, and almost six million children are working in conditions of " forced bonded labor"' (pg.0 in the intro).

it also says, "The children, often underfed, work from dawn to dusk, and squatting for long hours on low benches in front of their looms breathing in dust and lint"(pg.vi).

Effects of child labor

-According to the text Iqbal made the best carpets because on page 26 it says "The rug, the one he's weaving isn't like all the others"

-Iqbal, Maria, and their friends helped each other out. On page 76 it says "She taught us how to read, and we taught her how to speak again".

-The master punished children harshly sometimes. ''We saw Iqbal knees scrape on the stones on the ground, his arm bang against the edge of the well.Then we heard the awful, terrifying sound that haunted our sleep: the grate of the Tomb as it was raised and then bang"(pg.36).

-One day Iqbal had escaped and he met a man name, "Eshan Khan. He was a tall, thin man who gave the impression of force and determination"(pgs.82).

-It also says, "He had dedicated his life to the liberation of the child-slaves. He had been threatened, beaten, imprisoned; yet after each time, he had started afresh, driven by enthusiasm and perseverance"(pg.82).

Take a look at how skinny he is. They barely eat and get little or no pay. Children are chained to their looms at night and don't have beds. Children who are involved in Child Labor either drop out of school or don't go to school at all.

This is a boy that is involved in child labor.

our overall question

what opinion about the world does francesco D'Adamo express in the novel Iqbal?