Give short summary on Father's help
Class 8th English
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Father's help is the short story written by RK Narayan and Indian English short
story teller and novelist. This lesson is an extract from his famous novel
Malgudi days. In the novel he portrays the life of a boy named Swami who is
mischievous but at the same time lovable.
THEME OF THE STORY
The main theme of the story is a how a boy uses a pretext for not going to
school. The story depicts the child psychology and shows how a child’s mind
works to device out a trick for shirking his duty. This story also highlights the
need of understanding between parents and children and the significance of
ideal teacher pupil relationship.
EXPLANATION
The story revolves around a school boy named Swaminathan. He is a student
of Albert mission School. Like some boys he despises going to school and find a
pretext for not going to school.
One Monday morning he decides not to go to school and makes an excuse that
he has a headache. His mother allows him to stay home. When is father comes
to know about this then he becomes stubborn and tells him that he must go to
school. Swaminathan replies that he is unwilling to go to school late as a
teacher Samuel would beat him. Then Swami gives a brief but vivid imaginary
account of Samuel’s violent character and says that he is rude to the boys who
go to school late. He canes the boys very vehemently and does not stop till he
sees blood on the boys’ hand which he makes the boy wear on his forehead.
He also reports at once the teacher had skinned the Knuckle of a boy. Hearing
this Swamy’s father gets exasperated with the teacher and writes a rude letter
to the Headmaster complaining against Samuel and gives it to Swami to deliver
it to him. On the way while going to school Swami’s conscience bothers him for
making a false statement about Samuel. However, he devises a fault with the
teacher’s treatment of his students. Going to school he finds the teacher more
genial and kinder than ever before. The teacher neither abuses him nor canes
him. The boy, however shows rudeness with the teacher and misbehaves with
him in the class to instigate him to get violent with him. When the school
breaks then he rushes to the Headmaster’s Chamber. Seeing the room locked
he asks the peon and comes to know that he is on leave for a week. He does
not deliver the letter and returns home straight. His father asks him about the
letter and then after Swami’s response, he snatches the letter from him and
tears it off and throws it into the waste paper box and mutters that he
deserves the punishment of Samue
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