Question

How does the author reflect nature and rural festival

depicting Indian spirit in the context of ‘The Lost Child’​

Answer 1

Answer:

The story starts with the festival  of spring where we see a clad of people heading towards the fair gaily. The  story appropriately upholds the rural festival depicting Indian spirit.  Starting right with the sweet shop, toys, balloons, rural Indian fairs are  incomplete without these things. Nature and aesthetic rural aura become more  conspicuous to us when we come across the small little shops described as sweet  seller, flower seller and snake charmer. We find the child talking about  dragonflies bustling about on their gaudy purple wings, intercepting the flight  of a lone black bee or butterfly in search of sweetness from the flowers in a  flowering mustard-field, pale like melting gold as it swept across miles and  miles of even land. The Indian spirit becomes more evident when the child heard the cooing of doves and ran  towards it. The raining petals dropped from his forgotten hands. Even when he  went running in wild capers around the banyan tree, and gathering him up they  took the narrow, winding footpath which led to the fair through the mustard  fields. All these earthly things are the evidence of a rural festival depicting  Indian spirit.

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