Leela's character in R.K Narayan's short story Leela's friend with a cote
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Leela’s Friend’ is a short story written by R. K. Narayan (1906-2001) an Indian English short story-teller and novelist. The main theme of the story is affection and injustice. Through the story, the author has shown that the poor often become the victim of injustice of the rich.
It is the story of a servant named Sidda. He is the servant to the house of Mr Sivasankar. He does all the household works as- the washing of clothes, ran errands, chop woods, and look after Leela, a five years old daughter of Mr Sivasankar. From the first day, good intimacy develops between Leela and Sidda. Leela takes Sidda as her sole playmate, she keeps with him almost all the time- while working in the garden, while he chops woods and even at bedtime he would tell her stories. Sometime Leela takes a great joy to play master to Sidda and she makes him squat on the floor with a pencil between his fingers and a book. All the more whenever Sidda goes Leela follows him. One evening Sidda goes tot to buy some sugar and Leela follows her. When they return home Leela’s mother notices that the gold chain that she was wearing is missed. She asks Leela about it but says that she does not know. Then she calls in Sidda. He begins to shudder and sys that he unaware of it. Mr Sivasankar when returns home he grows excited. Sidda goes away at night. Mr Sivasankar goes to the police station and lodges with them a complaint. Leela is almost mad of him. Some days later the police catch Sidda and bring him to the house of Mr Sivasankar. Leela becomes overjoyed but they do not allow Leela to reach him. The police take him to the police station. Some days later Leela’s mother discovers the chain in a pot of tamarind. Leela admits that she kept it someday.
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From the story Leela's Friend, we see the ugly face of the society which is dominated by the upper class, and lower class is subject to exploitation, cruelty and unjust behaviour. Even though Sidda is proved innocent in the end, he is not even given a word of apology and he even loses his job.
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