Way of life and language differed between Muni and the red - faced man but they got along well and their conversation creates a lot of humour. Elaborate.
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Shri R.K. Narayan in his story ‘A Horse and Two Goats’ shows the two character, one is Indian and another is American. They cannot understand each other’s language which creates humor and funny situations.
These were the instances proving the same:
1. The red-faced man said Marvelous! By seeing the clay horse under which Muni was sitting but Muni got frightened as he did not understand.
2. When red-faced man greeted Muni Namaste, He uttered just “yes, no” considering that man as Policeman.
3. The Muni talked about himself Tamil language which the man did not understand.
4. When Man offered cigarette, Muni was surprised and when man offered him card, he took it as arrest warrant.
5. When Muni was talking about giving punishment to thieves, the man thought that he was talking about cutting woods with axe.
Likewise, many instances were there showing a lot of humor.
Answer:
R. K. Narayan has depicted in his story how the cultural and linguistic difference between two men can create a humorous situation. Muni, a common Tamil villager in India who knows only two words in English – ‘yes’ and ‘no’ meets by chance an affluent American, a ‘red-faced man’, who has come on a tour here.
The red-faced man was driving a station wagon. It stopped near where Muni was sitting under the clay-horse. The American asked muni for a nearby gas station Muni didn’t understand anything and got frightened. He took the stranger to be a policeman or a soldier by his khaki dress and wanted to run away, but could not. He was afraid that the man might chase or shoot him if he ran.
When the stranger greeted him. Muni merely uttered “yes, no”. Then Muni went on to give his introduction in Tamil language which the man couldn’t understand. When the man offered Muni a cigarette, he received it with surprise. When the man offered him a light, he blew it on and put it out, being confused. When the man offered him his card, Muni thought it to be an arrest warrant and shrank away from it. He knew that a murder had been committed nearby a few weeks before and thought that the policeman might be looking for the culprit.
Muni pleaded the man to go away as he did not know anything of the murder and promised that he would catch the bad character for him if he found. He assured that their village had always had a clean record, so it must be the other village. The foreigner understood nothing but listened courteously and nodded his head
Thus, neither of the two could understand what the other was saying. Both of them tried to guess the topic by following the other’s finger direction, look or the physical objects like the card. In the process, both of them ended up revealing their personal life, key concerns and their cultural difference. Interestingly, while only the readers get to know about the two characters’ identities and concerns, they themselves don’t actually understand anything about each other. And this is where the fun comes from. It makes the conversation humorous and enjoyable, building the curiosity at the same time.
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