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charcter sketch of kabulliwalah?​

Answer 1

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Mini’s father and the story’s unnamed first-person narrator and protagonist. The events of this story largely take place in the narrator’s study and just outside of his house. The narrator describes himself as a “Bengali Babu,” a respectful title that implies that he is financially comfortable, educated, and respected in his hometown of Calcutta, India. The narrator loves his only child, Mini, who is five years old at the beginning of the story. While the narrator’s wife finds Mini’s constant chatter tiring, the narrator loves to listen to his daughter prattle away about all sorts of topics. The narrator is a writer, and is working on his novel when the story starts. The novel is an adventure story, which reflects his own curiosity about different places and people around the world. The narrator has never had the opportunity to leave Calcutta, hence his fascination with such faraway places, though he also admits that he’s a homebody. The narrator is friendly with Rahamat because he enjoys seeing him laughing with Mini when he visits, and because Rahamat tells him stories about life in Afghanistan and what he’s seen on his travels as a fruit vendor, or Kabuliwala. Despite his interest in Rahamat, the narrator is quick to forget him after Rahamat is sent to jail. Years later, when the man shows up unannounced after being released from prison, the narrator tries to get rid of him as fast as possible, thinking of him as a criminal rather than as his daughter’s childhood companion and not wanting to be bothered on Mini’s wedding day. It’s only after Rahamat reveals that he also has a beloved daughter Parvati, back in Afghanistan, that the narrator recognizes that they have far more in common than he originally thought. Having established this personal and emotional connection with him, the narrator gives Rahamat money from Mini’s wedding fund to help him get back to Afghanistan and be reunited with his family.

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Answer 2

Rahamat is displayed with a powerful presence that indicates something underneath the surface. On face value, he is a fruit seller and Tagore describes him in an almost wanderer quality. The impression of him at the first description is that he is one that causes an immediate sense of fear in Mini, the child who is afraid that he captures children and places them in his large bag that he has across his shoulder. Over time, Tagore draws out his character as one who forges a bond with the little girl. He is committed to seeing her every day, "bribing" her with almonds and raisins. Tagore plays with the reader in this description, almost trying to tease the reader into believing something sinister in Rahamat's actions in expressing the concerns that the wife of the narrator has in the story. The familiar question that helps to forge the bond between both Rahamat and the girl involves him asking her when she is going to her father in- law's house. The fact that he returns after he was imprisoned and asks the girl the same question on the eve of her marriage helps to allow a fuller understanding of the now aged fruit seller. His bond with the girl is representative of the bond he wished to have with his own daughter in his native Afghanistan. When he asks the girl the same question on the eve of her wedding, it is a moment, a reflection, of his own life and how his own girl would be preparing for marriage. While Rahamat could not be there for his own daughter, he is there for this girl. The sentiment of yearning for what cannot be and seeking to bring it into existence with what is in front of us is heightened when Rahamat takes out a small piece of paper with the handprint of his daughter. It is at this moment that the speaker, and the reader, understand the pain and yearning that exists in this man. His wandering is not as physical as much as it is emotional, to find some semblance of personal contentment in a world and condition that is predisposed to not giving it to him.