Reader's Quotient:Transforming the DNA of Society

 

Authored By:Vinayak Nagri

 

“Hey you twerp, get up” says Eric Smith

“S-sorry sir” stammers Greg Bisshoff

Greg is Eric’s servant. Greg is a 12 year old boy who is slim, has long hair and is a poor child who is picked up from the street by Eric. Eric is a 25 year old man; medium sized and is an upper class man. He picked Greg from the street where he used to beg for money. He offered Greg $25 per month if he worked at Eric’s house and Greg happily agreed.

“Why the hell are you still sleeping?” asks Eric angrily

“I am very sorry sir, I will never repeat this mistake” says Greg

It is 10:25 am and Greg had still been sleeping. After getting up, he made coffee for Eric and started sweeping and mopping the house.

“Listen, tonight some guests are coming” says Eric “I want this house to be clean and sparkling by 8:00 pm”

“Ok sir, I will clean the whole house” says Greg

It is a bright Sunday afternoon and Greg is cleaning the house. Eric is watching T.V in the living room. Greg steps in the living room and starts cleaning it. While cleaning the table he looks at the television and accidentally breaks a vase.

Eric stands up angrily and clamors “What the hell is wrong with you. You have just broken a $250 vase”

“I am very very sorry sir, it happened by mistake” apologizing Greg

“I forgive you for now but I dare you if you did anything wrong in front of the guests, I will beat you up and throw you out of the house right away” warns Eric

The night comes, the house is shining and the guests make their way in the house. Eric welcomes them into the house. Eric order Greg to bring water for the guests. Greg brings 4 glass of water in a tray and while giving water to the guests, Greg’s foot slips which results the water to fall on the guests.

“What is this Eric? Do you treat your guests this way” that guest says angrily

“I am really s-sorry sir, I w-will just clean it” stammers Greg

“I am really sorry about this sit, please forgive me” says Eric to the guest

“I don’t care about your apologies” says the guest “I am just leaving and Eric, forget about that $25,000 deal”

Eric tries to stop the guest but he doesn’t listen and leaves the house. Eric turns to Greg angrily.

“This happened just because of you little twerp” says Eric

Eric picks up a bat and starts’ beating Greg and Greg is fully bloodied.

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“Noooooooooooo” screams Greg, recovering from the nightmare he had just seen.

In the real world, Greg is a 32 year old businessman. He is very rich. He got out of his bed, opened the locker which had a lot of his money. He took out $20,000 and moved to the hall where he sees that his 9 year old servant is cleaning the table. He remembers all the moments when he tortured this kid. The parents of this kid lives just two blocks away from Greg’s bungalow. The parent is poor and lives in a small hut. They both have some non-functional parts so they are unable to work and so they sent their kid to work. That day Greg took the 9 year old kid to his parents and gave them $20,000.

“Use these to educate your child so that when he grows up, he would earn and his children won’t work as a servant anywhere” says Greg

“Thank you very much sir” says the father of the 9 yr old kid with tears in his eyes

“If you need any help, just ask me” says Greg and goes back to his home.

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Child Labour is a wrong thing and this story is just to show you that you should not do Child Labour. It is a crime.