Question

theme if the story "pappachi's moth" ​

Answer 1

Answer:

The actual moth was an insect that Pappachi discovered while he was Imperial Entomologist, and he believed it to be a new species. Later in his life, other lepidopterists decided that the moth actually was a new species, but they didn’t name it after Pappachi and he considers this the greatest failure of his life. The narrator muses that this moth has haunted the family ever since, beginning with Pappachi’s bursts of rage and domestic abuse. In the present day of the novel, Pappachi’s moth becomes an eerie symbol of fear and unhappiness, particularly for Rahel. When something bad happens she feels the moth with “unusually dense dorsal tufts” land on her heart, and when she feels safer or more loved the moth lets go for a while.