name the unpleasant specimen mention in the extract and describe his behavior inference /interpretation /analysis
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shared by the rest of his family as well. As year after year passed by without any sign of a child being
born into the family, Ma began to lose hope of regaining any respect or status within her husband’s
household. The inevitable followed. She was ordered around, overworked, underfed and often
beaten. She would regularly be ill. It seemed they were waiting to see the end of her and, when she
hesitantly told Dad she was expecting, no one seemed too enthusiastic or happy.
The delivery was difficult. My birth was premature. When they learnt that the child was a girl, they
stopped coming to the hospital. Ma died a week later. They wanted nothing to do with me; an ugly
runt of a girl with shrivelled-up skin fit only to follow her no-good stubborn mother out of this world.
They were only too happy to let Masi take me off their hands and away to her ancestral home in a
small coastal Konkan village, Parvi, where she lived with my grandmother, her mother, Aji.
The village doctor shook his head sadly on looking at me but Masi was as adamant as her sister had
been. In that house I was reared purely on Masi’s grit and Aji’s determination and loving care as they
nursed me with ragi extract, diluted cow’s milk, soft hand-pounded rice and coconut. Day after day
they laboured. As a baby they fed me the Ragi extract mixed with diluted milk and the starch water
from boiled rice. A little older and they made Ragi porridge, then Ragi bhakri (roti), laddoos, seviyan,
and a miracle took place. Masi and Aji watched me grow from strength t