relate some stories to father's help
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The story revolves round a school-boy named Swaminathan. He is a student of Albert Mission School. Like some boys he despises school going and finds a pretext for not going to school. One Monday morning he decided not to go to school and finds a pretext that he has a headache. His mother allows him to stay home but when his father comes to know about his headache then he becomes stubborn and says to him that he must go to school. Swaminathan replies that he is unwilling to go to school late as his teacher Samuel would beat him. Then Swami gives a brief but vivid imaginary account of Samuel’s violent character and says that he is so rude to the boys who go to school late. He canes the boys very vehemently and not stops till he sees blood on the boy’s hand which he makes the boy smear on his face. He also reports that once the teacher had skinned the knuckle of a boy. Hearing this Swami’s father becomes exasperated with the teacher and writes a rude letter to the Headmaster complaining against Samuel and gives it to Swami to deliver it to him. On the way while going to school Swami’s conscience bothered him for making a false statement about Samuel. However, he devises out a fault with the teacher’s treatment of his students. Going to school he finds the teacher more genial and kind than ever before. The teacher neither abuses him nor canes him. The boy, however, shows rudeness with the teacher in the class. While the school breaks then he rushes to the Headmaster’s chamber and seeing the room locked he asks the peon and comes to know that he is on a leave for a week. He does not deliver the letter and returns home straight. His father asks him about the letter and then snatching the letter from Swami’s hand tears off it and throws it into the wastepaper box and mutters that he deserves the punishment of Samuel.
There are three main Characters- Swaminathan, Samuel and Swami’s father. All bears some individual as well as type traits of character. Swami is a type of boys who are unwilling to go to school and find an excuse for not going to school and what tactics he finds is a type of childish wickedness. Here the author has ably portrayed child psychology. The second important character is Samuel. He is a worthy teacher. No doubt that he sometimes punishes the student for their good but at times he is kind to them also. He often makes jokes rounding Swami’s inactivity which proves that he is a person of a genial kind. The third character is the Father of Swaminathan. He is a very conscious father. He loves his son but he is strict in the matter of his son’s schooling.
The author has employed Objective Method in narrating the story. In this method, the author keeps himself outside his story and narrates the events objectively.
The story, in Structure, is well one. The exposition is direct. The complication of the story begins with Swami’s going to school carrying about the letter written by his father to the Headmaster against Samuel. The story reaches its climax when Samuel behaves rudely in the last class taken by Samuel. The denouement happens when Samuel returns home without delivering the letter. The Setting of the story is consistent with the events and situation. The author gives a good deal of description of the atmosphere and manners of his characters.
The Dialogues employed in the story is very logical as he uses them economically but all the dialogues have taken his story a step ahead and unfold the inner nature and motives of his characters.
The author has expressed his Philosophy of Life not directly but indirectly through the story and suggests that a child suffers for his own fault.
The Language of the story is very simple as it is characterized by the use of simple, concrete and formal words and phrases, free from complicated sentence construction and harsh imagery. The following sentences may roughly be quoted as examples for the author’s simple and easy linguistic style as:
Answer:
In Father’s Help by R.K. Narayan we have the theme of honesty, pity, aggression, imagination, guilt, stubbornness and fear. Taken from his Malgudi Days collection the story is narrated in the third person by an unnamed narrator and after reading the story the reader realises that Narayan may be exploring the theme of pity. Swami as he is walking to school begins to feel sorry for Samuel. He believes that he will lose his job and go to prison even though he doesn’t know exactly what is in the letter his father has written. It is also noticeable that Swami is not being honest when it comes to Samuel. The story he told his father about Samuel is untrue and is based on hearsay from a generation of pupils who have been taught by Samuel. Despite this Swami is adamant that he will justify his father’s letter though again he does not know what his father has written. If anything Swami has allowed his imagination run wild when he has described Samuel to his father. Though it is true that Swami is caned by Samuel later on in the story this is more a case of Swami provoking Samuel in order that Samuel is expelled from his job and to justify bringing the letter to the headmaster.
The fact that Swami pities Samuel may be important as it suggests that Swami is battling with guilt. However rather than admit that he himself is in the wrong he does everything he can to provoke Samuel. If Swami had stayed silent in Samuel’s class he would not have been caned. He was given sufficient warning by Samuel yet he continued to obstruct the class by shouting. This may be important as it suggests that Swami is stubborn. Though he knows the path he is travelling is the wrong path he still nonetheless does everything he can to provoke Samuel. It might also be important to remember that Samuel didn’t have to hit Swami with the cane. He had other options. He could have told Swami to stand in the corner of the classroom or to leave the room. So in some ways Swami may feel justified by the fact that he has been caned by Samuel.
It is also noticeable that Swami has not done his homework. This could be important as it can suggest that Swami is not dedicated to his studies. He would much rather stay at home than go to school. It is also noticeable that when Swami lies to his mother about having a headache she immediately believes him yet his father knows that Swami is lying. It is as though there is a battle of wits between father and son. A battle that Swami eventually loses because he knows that he is lying about not only having a headache but about Samuel too. If anything Swami is like many young boys who don’t want to go to school. He will lie to his parents in order to stay at home. Making up a story that will suit his needs. However just as Swami is stubborn so too is his father who knows that Swami is lying to him hence him writing a letter to the headmaster even though he knows that Swami will not give the headmaster the letter.
In reality there are two guilty parties in the story. Both Swami and Samuel have done something wrong. Swami has lied and provoked Samuel and Samuel has reacted to Swami’s provocation and hit Swami with the cane. If Swami had not lied to his parents and had acted appropriately in class he would not have been caned. Though at the same time he would not have been able to justify his father’s letter. Similarly by being caned Swami loses any sense of pity that he has for Samuel. In Swami’s eyes Samuel’s actions justify him being expelled from his job and imprisoned. It is also noticeable that throughout the story that Swami has been somewhat in fear. He fears his father and he fears Samuel. Yet neither man is to be feared. Without knowing it Swami has been taught a lesson by his father. Swami’s father knew that Swami was exaggerating Samuel’s engagement with the other pupils in Swami’s class. If anything Swami has been tested by his father. However some critics might suggest that things might have been different if the headmaster was still in his office when Swami went to deliver the letter. If Swami had not been awash with guilt while walking to school and had not first of all provoked Samuel and handed the letter to the headmaster when he first arrived at school. Swami’s day may have been different. Instead he had to suffer caning from Samuel to prove to the headmaster that the contents of his father’s letter were true. Though it is unlikely that Swami will be caned again as he may very well have learnt his lesson. By lying to his father about Samuel Swami has ironically received the treatment (caning) that he was afraid of and that he had told his father other pupils had received. Though he had no proof.
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