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1. The hawker is advertising aloud for selling crystal bangles.

2. The narrator is scolded if he gets dirty.

3. The speaker in the poem is a young school-going boy.

The poet does not really wish to become a hawker/gardener/watchman. He is childish and sees only what he thinks is their ‘carefree’ life. He does not see the difficulties. He actually only craves for complete freedom from authority.

The street light is very tall and has a single red light at the top. Hence it is compared to a giant with one red eye.

Being a child he is not allowed to lead his life as per his wish. He has to follow certain norms which he does not like. 

The child in the poem wants to be a hawker, a gardener, and a watchman. When he looks at the hawker, he wishes he could also spend his day on the road crying “Bangles, crystal bangles!” He feels that there is nothing to hurry the hawker on. There is no road he must take, no place he must go to, and no fixed time when he must come home. These are the things that he cannot do himself and therefore, he wants to be a hawker so that he could do all these things. 

Next, he wishes he was a gardener because a gardener does what he likes with his spade. He soils his clothes with dust. Nobody scolds him if he gets baked in the sun or gets wet. Therefore, if the little child was a gardener, nobody would stop him from digging. 

Finally, he sees the watchman and wants to be like the watchman so that he could walk through dark and lonely streets all night with his lantern and chase shadows. When he is put to bed and is not allowed to roam outside, he sees the watchman swinging his lantern with his shadow at his side and he feels that the watchman never even once has to go to bed in his entire life. Therefore, he wants to be a hawker, a gardener, and a watchman so that he could do all the things they did as he could not do them being a child.

1. Name of the vocation/profession/business: Engineering 

2. Educational qualifications required: B.E/B.Tech

3. Work profile/description: Setting up of projects/setting up plants/inventing new instruments and machines 

4. Opportunities for advancement: Excellent in a developing country like India

5. Your personal skills/talents for the choice: My interest in seeing how various machines work and my talent in repairing simple instruments.

The speaker in the poem, who is a young school-going boy, craves for complete freedom to do whatever he wants and whenever he wants. He wants freedom from authority. He wants to lead a carefree life.

 The speaker is a little child who goes to school. 

He met three people first a hawker then a gardener and lastly a watchman. 

On his way to the school, he met a hawker, who was selling bangles cried “Bangles, crystal bangles!” On his return from school, he watched a gardener, who used to dig the ground. When it got dark and his mother sent him to bed, through his window he saw the watchman walking up and down.

The speaker in the poem is a young school-going boy.

When parents see their children exposed to heat or soil their clothes in the dust, they scold them and stop them from doing it.

The difference between a hawker and a shopkeeper is that a hawker does not have a fixed shop. He goes from street to street selling his wares. A shopkeeper has a fixed shop and people who want to buy his goods must go to his shop.

1. that a hawker does not have a fixed shop. He goes from street to street selling his wares. A shopkeeper has a fixed shop and people who want to buy his goods must go to his shop

2. scold them and stop them from doing it.

3. his lantern and his shadow

4. a giant with one red eye in its head.