The lost child gives an elobrate description of child psychology Analyse in 100 words
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The Lost Child narrates how a little boy was lost in the crowd of a village fair. It tells us how on his way to the fair he was attracted by various things such as toys, sweetmeat, balloons and birds, butterflies and flowers. But what attracted him most was the roundabout. It made him forget his parents and everything else in the world. Thus he lagged far behind his parents and got lost in the crowd of the fair. Here, Anand deals with the child psychology in a sensitive way without shying away from its reality. We too have grown up as an accepted part of our multicultural neighborhood in the world. Anand’s at his strongest when writing about the Child’s classic confrontational relationship with his world without parents. Young adult readers will be able to identify with the lost child’s struggle to live within his family’s ambit while trying to discover his own world outside.
On the day of the spring festival a large crowd of brightly dressed people came out of the lanes of a city and proceeded towards the village fair. Among them was a little boy following his parents. The little boy lagged behind his parents as he was attracted by a toy-shop. He wanted a toy but received only an angry look from his father and his kind-hearted mother only asked him to see what was before him. The child began to sob but when he saw what lay before him; his eyes were filled with delight. It was a mustard field in flower, which stretched for miles like a rippling yellow river.
The child’s joy knew no bounds. He left the footpath and entered into the mustard-field and began to chase some dragon-flies and a black bee or a butterfly. He tried to catch one of them but he was called by his mother to come back to the foot-path. He joined his parents and for some time walked side by side, but again left them being ‘attracted by a number of little worms and insects. He was again called back by his parents who were now sitting on the edge of a well. They were seated under an old banyan tree which spread its branches over smaller trees such as the champak and gulmohur.
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As the story opens, we find the child is fascinated by the toys and nature’s beauty. The little worms, insects, flowers and birds lure the child. He lagged behind as he stopped to enjoy the nature. The parents passed by the same enchanting beauty but were oblivious to it. This implies that the world was unfolding for the child. For him, everything was novel. But nothing was left to unfold for his parents. Therefore, they had no interest in what fascinated the child. Worldly matters were the only thing that mattered to the parents.