How are the teachers describe in chapter 1 of swami and friends?
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Answer:
teachers are described as discriminating hindu and cristian students.
Explanation:
A schoolboy named Swami wakes up on Monday morning, reluctant to get out of bed. He dreads facing his school, teacher, and the Mission School’s Headmaster, especially since he has left all of his homework to do in the two hours before school starts. He settles into his desk in a corner of his father’s dressing room and begins to work.Swami sits in his classroom, bored throughout the first few hours of school. He can only stand to be at school at all because he enjoys watching the toddlers in the nearby Infant Standards classroom. His teacher, Vedanayagam, appears very ugly to him and pinches his hand when he finds that Swami’s math homework is incorrect. Swami enjoys his next class more, because it is a history class taught by a kind man named D. Pillai who tells stories of great battles in history rather than following any “canon of education.”The final class of the morning is scripture class, taught by Mr. Ebenezar, a religious fanatic. Swami and his classmates sometimes enjoy the colorful Bible stories they learn there, despite the fact that Mr. Ebenezar insults the beliefs of the non-Christian students. Mr. Ebenezar launches into a rant about the failings of the Hindu god Krishna in comparison to Jesus, which causes Swami to stand up and argue against his teacher. Mr. Ebenezar twists Swami’s ear as punishment.Swami arrives at school the following day, feeling guilty about a letter that he carries in his pocket. He thinks that he is an idiot for telling his father about the trouble with Mr. Ebenezar. Swami delivers the letter to the Mission School Headmaster, at which point the reader learns that Swami’s father has complained to the headmaster about discrimination against non-Christian students. The letter states that the school should be more tolerant of students of other religions and requests that the headmaster inform Swami’s father if Hindu boys are not welcome at the school, so that he can send Swami to school elsewhere.