What is the moral of the chapter the lost child
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Cambridge English Dictionary defines 'moral' as 'The moral of a story, event, or experience is the message that you understand from it about how you should or should not behave.'
The moral of the short story 'The Lost Child' by Mulk Raj Anand is that every child loves his/her parents unconditionally. The parents are the most important thing in a child's life.
"The moral of the chapter, 'The Lost Child' is desire which means desire is always constant in our minds but only what we desire keeps changing, material or immaterial.
The child, when he was with his parents desired whatever he fancied in the fair and in the mustard garden, like balloons, toys, sweets, flowers, butterfly, etc.
However, when he suddenly lost his parents, he only wants his parents and nothing else.
The stranger offered some things to console the child, the child does not want it anymore, although they were the things that it desired earlier, but only wants his parents now.
Earlier, the author subtly describes that the parents are not fancied by the things that the child fancies.
So, desire keeps changing but never stops."