Picture Composition

Picture Composition: The picture composition is usually divided into three patterns where a student is asked to describe a picture given or make a story out of it or to express and elaborate upon the thoughts and feelings suggested by the given picture. The picture can be a photograph, an action scene, a quote written over a picture or a scene or a sketch of a famous personality. The composition is written in three different forms so as to highlight this uniqueness.

Following points should be taken care of while writing an account of the picture.

1. Introduction: A brief introduction of the picture, what it suggests and its effect on the people and the environment.

2. Body or Context: The ideas and thoughts that the student receives from the picture should be mentioned and linked in a correct and meaningful sequence.

3. Conclusion: Bringing the composition to an end with carefully rounding off the thoughts, feelings and returning to the specific subject.

The content must be directly related to the given picture while attempting picture composition.

The students must maintain the connection and the focus between picture and content.

The full structured of the composition should be analysed in the mind before starting the writing based on picture.

As the word-limit is going to range between 100 - 150 words, the students must try to spread out his ideas so that there is variety of ideas in this picture composition.

Use of simple language and imagination is required.

Logical expression of the entire ideas based on picture will makes it an effective composition.

Question : Study the picture given below. Write a story or a description or an account of what it suggests you. Your composition may be about the subject of the picture or you may take suggestions from it; however, there must be a clear connection between the picture and your composition.

Answer: The picture shows a rural ground with three school girls playing a game of cricket instead of attending school. It shows that, just like boys, girls can also skip school and play games during the time when they should be at school. The girls can be seen carrying their school bags as backpacks. So it appears that they had got ready for school and left their homes for attending school. But then, why did these girls skip school?

From the dress worn by the girls in the picture, it appears they are living in either a rural area or in a small town and they are enrolled in a government school. It is well-known fact that three-quarters of India’s schools are operated by the government, but nearly half of these schools don’t have separate usable toilet facilities for girl students. The situation is relatively better in private urban schools. Consequently, many girls either skip classes or drop out from school altogether. Many of them avoid eating breakfast at home before going to school, so that they don’t need to use a toilet during school time. Due to this, they feel sleepy during the class, thus faring poorly in tests. Thus, their aspirations bring girls to schools, but lack of toilets drives them away.

Separate toilets for girls are highly inadequate in schools and are definitely one of the reasons for dropping outat sch a young age. But more than anything else, it is a dignity issue and an issue of security for girl students. But schools often fail to recognise this or are unable to do anything due to lack of funds. This decreases the attendance ratio of girls in school. Further, when a girl does not go to school, there is constant pressure on her parents to marry her off, thus causing a child marriage. Consequently we end up having an uneducated girl who is a child bride and unable to face the world on her.

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Subject Verb Agreement