How does author demonstrate that Binya belongs to the mountains
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Binya lives with her family in a small village. She is a simple girl with realistic dreams. The story has multiple emotions including materialistic love, jealousy, and kindness. Binya is a girl who belongs to a poor family, and they are just surviving.
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Binya is the main character of the novel ‘The Blue Umbrella’ by Ruskin Bond. Her full name is Binyadevi. As in the hills or anywhere in India it is a kind of trend to call children with their short nicknames. Binya’s elder brother’s name is Bijju, whereas his real name is Vijay.
Binya aged eleven is a hilly girl. She lives with her small family in the hills of Garhwal. Her father died when she was two years of age. For sustenance, they have three tiny terraced fields, on which they grow potatoes, onions, ginger, beans, mustard and maize. They don’t sell the vegetables in the market but keep it for themselves. They also have two cows and the extra milk they sell to others. Self-sustenance is their primary objective of life, not money making. Binya’s brother Bijju goes to school. Sadly, she doesn’t go to any school; instead she looks after the two cows: Neelu and Gori.
Binya loves wandering over the mountains and in the distant valleys. She isn’t afraid of darkness, forests, and climbing the trees. She loves freedom as well, thus whenever cows go out with her, she never yells at them nor restrain them going here and there. In fact, she seems lost in herself.
One day when she comes across some picnickers from the city, she realizes that city people have different kind of lifestyle and happiness. They are wealthy and possess good items, like blue umbrella. It is sad to note that city people regarded her as a poor girl because she was wearing torn clothes. She looks at them from a distance – it means she doesn’t like being with people. Often hilly people don’t prefer mingling in the crowd. Also, she feels nervous when she is at bazaar. Binya isn’t greedy: that we can say when city people tried to buy her tiger-claw pendant for five rupees. Instead she chose to have that blue umbrella for that tiger-claw pendant.