She stares at it, mesmerized, and after a while she tries a hesitant tap on the keyboard. Three days later she's learnt that she can save the game in her own name.
Here, she's surprised that she can save the game in her own name, which makes me think about the stories from Pandora's Breeches where the women were not given credit for their work or they were being overshadowed by the males in their lives.
The narrow little lanes of the slum are like spider webs,· intersecting at odd angles, curving around hutments, like a stream of water. Everywhere there are people and smell,s and here
In India, the slums are areas that are considered to be where people of poverty live. The sanitation is not the best, and the areas are overpopulated, which can spread many diseases. Usually, there are not enough resources in these areas to maintain the high amount of people who reside there.
https://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/keep-india-beautiful/life-in-a-slum-ugly-face-of-india/
The gossiping old women who sat around her
The image of women sitting around sewing machines and gossiping does not indicate that women have made progress, and it implies they are still being placed in a separate sphere from the men. Men are never described as gossipers, and they are never doing any type of house chore.
With this determination, her new school, with its snooty, unfriendly girls and regimented routine, became a matter of finding the grain in the chaff, the flashes of joy in the misery.
With this statement, it implies that getting an education is not easy. Getting an education is difficult, but in the end, it is worth it in order to continue to build networks.