Character sketch of munoo
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Mulk Raj Anand, who is considered the "Charles Dickens" of India, wrote about the plight of the lowest members of the caste system in India, and the terrible lives they were born to. One of those books is called Coolie.
The main character of the book is Munno, a young man who leaves his village at the age of fourteen to go to the city. He is a helpless, unskilled laborer. His employment, and his personage because of that work, is devalued. He holds a number of positions—house servant, factory worker and rickshaw driver. As a coolie, he commanded little respect and worked for low wages. His situation is deplorable due to...
...poverty and exploitation aided by the social and political structures in place.
Munno is of the Kshatriya by caste. K.D. Verma of the University of Pittsburg, Johnstown, points out that while other "dregs" of society in Western literature can question is position in society, those like the Untouchable in India may not. However, as a Kshatriya, Munno could—but does not.
Munno, the 'hero-anti-hero' of Coolie (1936), being a Kshatriya by caste, can at least rebel.
K.D. Verma compares the coolies to other workers of the "lowest kind" found in Western literature that share the same characteristics as Munno, or the coolie.
Like Blake’s chimney sweeps and Dickens’s orphans, [coolies] are the rejects, the disinherited and helpless victims whose lives and work have been permanently devalued, misappropriated and made into stagnant categories by repressive traditions of history...
Anand once commented that he wanted to write the stories that reflected the lives and experiences not of the upper or middle-classes in fiction. Instead, he wanted to paint a literary portrait of the very lowest and poorest in his society that had been virtually ignored in literature, as they are in life.
'I wished to recreate,' he [says], 'the folk, whom I knew intimately, from the lower depths, the lumpens and the suppressed, oppressed, [and] repressed, those who have seldom appeared in our literature...'
Munno is a poor adolescent who travels to the city, but unskilled, only the lowest jobs are available to him. He ultimately dies of tuberculosis.
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Mulk Raj Amand's famous pen novel features the character of Munoo, a young man from the mountains who gets washed up onto the prairie in the false hope of going to work and seeing the world. Destiny takes him from the clutches of a vengeful housewife to a primitive cucumber factory in a feudal city and then to Bombay, where he enjoys a little rest. With his camaraderie and love, his irrepressible curiosity and zest for life, Munoo turns out to be the most captivating character.
Munoo is a fourteen year old boy and he was the playful boy. He was the child prodigy at climbing trees.He jumped up the trunk like a monkey; climb the tallest branches at odd hours.
Munoo is an innocent country boy. He was anything but ambitious in life. His expectations are extremely modest. His only wish is to live, "I want to know, I want to work" (23).Munoo is attuned to all the luxurious natural beauty that surrounds him.
Munoo is an outgoing and sharp-witted rural teenager full of zest for life and zest for life. Despite the hardships and misfortunes he encounters at every stage of his brief career in this novel, he never loses his zest for life. His "the essential loneliness of the soul, that loneliness that he was able to break through with his enthusiasm and enthusiasm for the work". He says: "I want to work like this machine; I will make a man of us, a strong man like the fighter."Munoo can also be seen as a symbol of life affirmation and a positive attitude towards life.
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