Question

Describe the life and hardships of the people living in the vicinity of the forests

Answer 1

Norah Burke’s short story ‘Journey by Night’ depicts the hardship of life of them who live in the vicinity of forests. The story opens with a little boy having severe pain in his stomack. But there were apparently no remedy other than laying steaming clothes on the child’s belley. There was neither a hospital nor any doctor nearby. Even there were no men in the village to take him to the hospital at Kalaghat fifty miles away from the place Laldwani, where they lived.

No doubt, all the villagers there were left to the hands of fate whenever they had serious ailments. We come to know that There were other children in Sher Singh’s family but ‘they were dead, carried off by cholera and influenza and such, and by jungle accidents’.