Question

IF ANYONE HAS READ SWAMI AND FRIENDS PLEASE GIVE A CHARACTERSKETCH OF SWAMI

Answer 1

Swaminathan

The plot of Swami and Friends revolves around Swaminathan, the central protagonist, who initially typifies the innocence of youth and all the mischievousness that childhood entails.  He prefers cricket to school, takes his family for granted, and attempts to play out childhood fantasies in the often reckless games and stunts he pursues with his shifting group of friends. Initially coming across as passive and timid–more likely to follow than to lead the crowd (as we witness in the mob scene of Chapter 12)–and overshadowed amongst his peers by the more self-assured Mani and Rajam, Swaminathan, however, becomes bolder and more socially prominent over the course of the novel. The most vital player on the cricket team, it is ultimately, Swaminathan, and not Rajam or Mani that holds the key to M.C.C.’s victory. And though his rebellion against the headmaster results in childish flight, he openly and boldly defies the central authority figure of his school without waiting for Rajam’s support, and without the support of an angry mob to fuel his courage. While the novel centers on a brief period in Swaminathan’s life, in this brief journey, we witness the revolutionary change happening in India, and the subtle revolution of character and understanding that takes place within Swaminathan. Although the ambiguous ending points to the impossibility of knowing how his life and friendships will ultimately unfold, the drama of that final train station scene—the coming and going, the beginning and ending, the speech and the silence—illustrates all the flurry of life moving, shifting, and changing in both perpetual and inscrutable ways.

Answer 2

Name and age
• Swaminathan is a school going boy
FAMILY
• He belongs to a middle class South Indian family.
• He has a grand mother, a father, a mother and a little brother in his house.
• His father works in courts.
Friends
• Rajam and Mani are his fast friends.
• Like all other boys of his age, he  loves to be in the company of his friends.
Habits
• He is a loafer.
• He loves wandering and playing with his friends.  
• Dislikes to stay at home.
Shirker:
• He does not want to study.
• He thinks that the holidays are not meant for studying.
• To him, holiday means all play.
NATURE
Liar:
• He is a big liar. 
• He does not hesitate to tell lies in front of his father.
Careless and Irresponsible:
• The dust and the cobweb on his books show his careless and Irresponsible nature
• He loves pets.
• He does not mind even putting a spider into his pocket.
Aggressive:
• The way he tilts the table and scatters all the books on the floor shows his anger against his father.
• The manner he banged together the reader book in order to shake off the dust also shows his anger.
Innocent:
• He is very innocent .
• When his father gives him a very simple sum to solve, instead of doing calculations he is thinking about the nature of the mangoes and the mango sellers.
Relations with family Irritating:
• He irritates each and every family member.
• He himself also gets irritated by his mother, father and grand mother. 
• They do not pay him due attention.
Unbearable and revengeful:
• He is unbearable to his mother.
• Being ignored by his mother he becomes revengeful. Father has a soft corner for him despite his
• stupidity.
• He also tries to win the sympathy of his grandmother but does not succeed. 
Conclusion
• He is a true representative of his peer group.
• He is very playful and is very weak in arithmatic.
• We feel pity for him as he starts weeping being unable to solve the sum.

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