We do not understand the value of something that we have until it goes far way from us. How this statement comes true in the life of the child who got lost in the village fair.
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really that was a sad moment
The question refers to the story ‘The Lost Child’ by Mulk Raj Anand.
The child had gone to the village fair with his parents. He wanted a toy, but his father only looked at him in ‘his familiar tyrant’s way’. At the entrance of the fair grounds, he spotted the sweets, and wanted a ‘burfi’, his ‘favourite sweet’, but he knew he would not get it. The same happened with a garland of gulmohurs. When he saw the balloons, he wanted them too, but since he knew his parents’ answer, he did not even bother asking for them. Similarly, even though he wished to hear the snake charmer’s music, he knew he would not be allowed to do so, and so walked away. However, when he got to the roundabout, he gathered the courage to ask for permission, but his parents were not around. That was when he panicked and burst into tears.
When a man picked him up and tried to console him, the child refused to be consoled. He did not want to listen to the pleasant music of the snake charmer’s flute, or watch the colourful balloons, or smell the fragrance of the garland of flowers. All the child wanted was to find his parents. Even the sweetshop did not interest the child, because all he cared for were the parents who were not around him.
When the child’s parents were with him, the child’s attention was drawn by other things, but as soon as he realised that he was lost, he did not care for or desire anything else. He only wanted to be reunited with his parents. The child understood the value of his parents’ presence only after they went missing.
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