Explain the way in which the grandmother behaved just before she died? How did the
express their sorrow?
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The odd way in which he grandmother behaved before she died was that the evening the narrator returned for abroad, she didn't pray. Instead, she collected women of the neighborhood and sang of the homecoming of warriors while thumping a sagging, dilapidated drum for hours. When she died the sparrows express their sorrow by not chirrup.They gathered in thousand around her dead body. The sparrows also express their love for author's grandmother by not eating bread crumbs thrown to them by author's mother and when the dead body was taken for cremation, they fly away quietly.
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The sparrows and the grandmother had developed an intimate relationship so the sparrows also mourned her death. When the grandmother died thousands of sparrows expressed their sorrow by sitting scattered in the verandah in mourning while grandmother‟s dead-body lay there. They did not chirrup. Author‟s mother threw some pieces of bread but they showed no interest in the bread crumbs. When they carried grandmother‟s corpse off they flew away quietly. Thus the sparrows mourned her death and paid their silent tribute to the grand old lady in a very unique manner.