Question

Undeserved reward by premchand eng summary

Answer 1

The narrator has a secret admiration for the district collector who is a learned man and has done research on old coins and history. However, he takes no initiative to meet the district collector. Surprisingly, one day he gets a written invitation from the district collector to meet him. His friends advise him not to go and says that district collector could have come himself. They also say that the he did not do so because he was a snob.

However, the narrator makes a logical analysis and decides that it was right for the district collector to have his ego and that visiting the narrator’s place would be inconvenient and cause a lot of expense for him. So, he decides to go and meet the district collector as requested. When the meeting took place, the author finds that the district collector was actually a person with no airs. Talks go round and rumors develop about their friendship. People approach the narrator for favors to be got through the district collector. But, the narrator turns them down.

Once the author’s childhood friend Baldev visits him. After reviving old memories, Baldev says that his son has been falsely implicated and asks the narrator to represent his case to the district collector. He does not give the narrator a chance to say no. Yet, the author does nothing in this regard and forgets about it altogether. Later Baldev comes along with his son and tells the narrator that his son has been released. He expresses his gratitude to the narrator and showers him with gifts. Although the narrator feels guilty, he takes the reward and says nothing.

Answer 2

The "undeserved reward" is actually revolve around the narrator and the a district officer. The district officer initially invites the narrator himself as the narrator writes about some good qualities within him. At the start the narrator looks to reject the invitation but later on goes to the place of district officer who was the influential person of the area. They meet each other and become friends their friendship news spread in the area and as the people start approaching the narrator to meet the officer or to reach to him But narrator always turns the down.
Once one of old friend of narrator "Baldev"  approaches him and remind him that they know each other. Then he ask the narrator to represent a case about his son wrong implications before the district officer . This time he did  not reject him but later on he forget about it. Then after few days the person came with his son and says that his son released . So he  express his gratitude and also present some gift to the narrator for his work. The narrator in the last feel sorry that he did not do nothing and can't even able to tell to his friend about it.