NCERT Book Class 6 English (A Pact with the Sun) Chapter 7 A Pact with the Sun

24/A Pact with the Sun

• Saeeda’s mother has not received proper medical treatment
for her complaints.
• She is denied healthy food, sunshine and fresh air.
• At last, she consults a good physician who gives her effective
medicine and sound advice.

SAEEDA’S mother had been ailing for a long time — fever, cough,
body-ache, painful joints and what not. Treated by a variety
of physicians for weeks, she often showed signs of
improvement but soon relapsed into her old, sick self, one
complaint substituted by another. Though weak and
colourless, she was forbidden normal food and was under
strict orders to remain perpetually confined to her small,
dingy room with doors and windows fastened, deprived of
sunshine and fresh air.