Read: 'A young boy of the new generation, in school uniform and shoes,…

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Read: 'A young boy of the new generation, in school uniform and shoes, threw his bag on a folding bed. The author remembered another boy who had prayed only that he might never lose his pair of shoes.'
The contrast IMPLIED is between

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C. The casual abundance of one generation and the prayer-worthy scarcity of the previous one — measuring intergenerational change but also continuing inequality (since many like Saheb still walk barefoot)

The passage uses the two images to mark both progress (some children now own shoes routinely) and persisting inequality (ragpickers' children still walk barefoot). The contrast is generational AND social.

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Two boys of the same caste

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Two boys of similar income

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Two boys at the same school

Read: 'A young boy of the new generation, in school uniform and shoes, threw his bag on a folding bed. The author remembered another boy who had prayed only that he might never lose his pair of shoes.' The contrast IMPLIED is between