Question

Amit must return the book today

Answer 1

Amit should return the book by end of the day

Answer 2

This is an interesting distinction but I would dispute it on the grounds that A New World actually foregrounds very little. Emotions, impressions, actions are all so muted in this text that a reader has to strain to hear the characters think.

Lose concentration for a moment and you are left only with a whiff of fish cooked in mustard oil and the orange flash of a gulmohur tree against a monsoon sky.

The poetry of these images is undeniable, but individual beads tend to scatter without a binding thread - narrative security that A New World conspicuously does not provide.