Question

critical appreciate for the story journey by night by norah burke

Answer 1

Norah Burke’s short story “Journey by Night” is set in a small village named Laldwani and the
nearby town Kalaghat is fifty miles away from the village. Between the village and the town there
is a dense forest, populated by animals like elephants, tigers, snakes like cobra etc. and two
rivers. The protagonist of the story, twelve year old Sher Singh crosses the jungle and two rivers
at night along with his sick younger brother on his back to reach the hospital of Kalaghat. The
story was set when India was under Colonial rule and most of the villages in India did not have
any medical facilities. When people were ill, home remedies were the only way out. If home
remedies did not suffice, it meant death as hospitals were far off.
Norah Burke’s story portrays India as it was many years back, but more than the portrayal of the
backwardness of India; the short story is about the courage of a twelve year old boy, and his
love for his brother.
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