Question

explain why the author uses the words lonesome waif forsaken by the waif. from postmaster​

Answer 1

Answer:

These words are used to describe Ratan the girl who came to help out around the home and office of the postmaster Ratan is an orphan but one who is old enough to remember her parents and her younger brother. We never learn what happened to them but this detail is enough to imagine that Ratan feels very much abandoned in their absence. She and the postmaster have good relationship each being the other's only true companion- Ratan is there in the yard, Waiting for his