swami and friends by rk narayan summary of chapter 1 to 5 , 150 - 200 words
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A schoolboy named Swami wakes up on Monday morning, reluctant to get out of bed. He dreads facing his school, teacher, and the Mission School’s Headmaster, especially since he has left all of his homework to do in the two hours before school starts. He settles into his desk in a corner of his father’s dressing room and begins to work.
The opening scene establishes Swami’s character as youthful and self-centered, with only childish concerns like finishing his homework on time. This small travail sets the stage for Swami to develop a much greater sense of responsibility and awareness of the world around him.
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Swami sits in his classroom, bored throughout the first few hours of school. He can only stand to be at school at all because he enjoys watching the toddlers in the nearby Infant Standards classroom. His teacher, Vedanayagam, appears very ugly to him and pinches his hand when he finds that Swami’s math homework is incorrect. Swami enjoys his next class more, because it is a history class taught by a kind man named D. Pillai who tells stories of great battles in history rather than following any “canon of education.”
Swami’s boredom during most of the school day introduces Narayan’s skepticism of the value of conventional education settings. Rather than wise authority figures, the teachers appear as comic caricatures, frightening demons like Vedanayagam, or loveable buffoons like D. Pillai.