who was kanna panna?
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Explanation:
Kanna is a mischievous, happy child, who revels in playing with words. They seem to come tumbling out of their own volition. “The teacher asked me my name and I said, ‘Kanna’. Then before I could stop my voice, it said, ‘Kanna Panna’.”
But Kanna had not always been like this. When we first meet him, he is withdrawn and hardly lifts his head. His father gives him the ‘heads-up’ order many times a day and his mother is constantly telling him what to do. Kanna’s first break comes when he visits his aunt and uncle’s place where he and his cousins are left to their own devices with hardly any rules to follow.
One day, all of them visit a dark and deserted temple. Suddenly, the one feeble light inside goes out. Everyone is frightened and feels trapped inside the ruins. Except for Kanna. Calmly, he talks them (and walks them) through the darkness and out into the daylight again. For the first time in his life, Kanna feels he is as good as or better than the others around him. How did he do it? He can’t see! At this point in the story, a seven-year-old reader I shared the book with flipped the pages back to the beginning and said, “But his eyes are open!”