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analysis of all characters in ruskin bond job well done

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In A Job Well Done by Ruskin Bond we have the theme of connection, conflict, fear, control, freedom and revenge. Taken from his Collected Short Stories collection the story is narrated in the first person by a man who is looking back at a period in his life when he was eight years old. From the beginning of the story the reader can see that the narrator has a strong bond or connection with Dhuki. It is as though the narrator lacks a father figure in his life that he can look up to and as such spends a lot of his time with Dhuki. Summerskill believing that the narrator is too soft and as such the narrator has a strained relationship with Summerskill. If anything it is also possible that the narrator (and his mother) are afraid of Summerskill and the routine he believes one should adhere to. The narrator’s mother doesn’t appear to have any control over her life. Something that is noticeable when Dhuki pleads with her to save the well but she follows Summerskills’ instructions. In order to maintain the peace and not upset Summerskill.

It may also be a case that the well symbolises the past for both Dhuki and the narrator with Dhuki remembering how much the narrator’s father liked to sit by the well and draw. Summerskill on the on other hand has no use for the well. He sees it as a blight on the landscape and as such wants it removed. A comparison between both Summerskill and the narrator’s father might also be relevant. Summerskill is a soldier who believes in order and routine. While the narrator’s father appears to have allowed the narrator to live a freer life.

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