A speech on the lesson THE SNAKE AND THE MIRROR
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The story is a narrative within the narrative. The writer tells us the story which was told to him by a homeopathic doctor. As we see from the title, the snake and the mirror are the two most important things in the story. This homeopathic doctor encountered a snake, the snake fell on the doctor. When the snake saw its reflection in the mirror, it was more interested in that and the doctor’s life was saved.
The homeopathic doctor is narrating the story. He asks the writer and the group if anyone had ever been wrapped up by a cobra snake. The audience became silent due to the fear of the cobra snake. Then the doctor narrated his story. It was a hot summer night, almost 10 o'clock, he was returning home after having his dinner at the restaurant. As the doctor was opening the door of his room, he heard a noise from above, but he did not react because he was used to such noises.
He was used to listen to this kind of noise. It was the noise of rats. There were many rats in his room, so he was used to the noise.
There was no light in the doctor’s room, so, he lighted the kerosene lamp with a match box. He had taken a small room on rent.
As he had just started his medical practice, he was earning very less. That is why he was living in such a shabby, dirty condition. He told the writer that he had just sixty rupees in his bag.
Further,he added that he had some shirts and dhotis to wear. He also had a black -coloured coat which he was wearing at the time of the incident.
He removed his coat, his shirt and his vest. He says that the vest was not so white which means that it was dirty.
Then he opened the windows. The room which he had taken on rent was on the outside of the house. And one wall of the room faced the garden. The roof had tiles on it and the gable was supported by the beams. Inside the room, there was no roof.The beam on which the gable was supported was full of rats which went in and out of the room through it.
He set his bed near the wall and he laid down to sleep but could not sleep. It seemed that the wind god had taken time off means that as the wind was not blowing,the wind god had taken a day off, he was on a holiday and so, wind was not blowing at all. He had gone out to get some fresh air because he did not have any fan or cooler in his room and he was feeling hot.
He came back to his room and sat on a chair. And he opened the box under the table and took out a book named ‘Materia Medica’. He kept it on the same table on which a lamp,a mirror and a small comb was lying. He opened it and sat down.
As he was sitting in front of the mirror, he looked at his image in the mirror.
He says that he was a great admirer of beauty. As he was a young man, he liked to appreciate beautiful things and wanted to improve his looks to look more handsome.
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