Question

Who is Velan ? What is the name of the village where he lived?Write briefly on the narrative technique of the novel,The Guide.

Answer 1

Answer:

Malgudi

The Guide is a 1958 novel written in English by the Indian author R. K. Narayan. Like most of his works the novel is based on Malgudi, the fictional town in South India.

Answer 2

Answer:

Velan is an old servant, who lived in a small village called Mangal in South India. He is a character in the Novel written by R.K.Narayana. The narrative technique used for the novel, "The Guide" is flashback and story-telling.

Explanation:

R.K.Narayan created all his characters in a small imaginary town called Malgudi. It is a semi-urban.

"The Guide" is a very important novel by R.K.Narayan.

The writer used a flash-back narrative technique.

The method chosen was story-telling.

Two methods: First the flashback narration was narrated by the hero himself. Second in which the writer tells about Raju, The Guide.

At the end of the novel, both methods are fused, when Raju decides to sacrifice his life for the sake of the village people.

Hence, Velan is an old servant from the village called Mangal. The technique used in "The Guide" is a story-telling technique by the writer himself.