write a 1500 words alternate ending to the story fritz by Satyajit Ray
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The Short story ‘Fritz’ written by Satyajit Ray published in his book ‘Collected Short Stories’ is about a Swiss doll named Fritz.
Jayanto, the protagonist, works in the editorial section of a newspaper and Shankar, the narrator is a school teacher. Both of them are great friends and have finally managed to get some time to go on a trip together. They decide to go to Bundi; a village in Rajasthan where Jayanto had been before in his childhood with his parents.They stay at the Circuit house (a kind of guest house) where Jayanto had stayed before in his childhood due to his father’s frequent work trips there. Upon reaching, Shankar realises that Jayanto is in somewhat pensive mood and queries about it. Jayanto says that the old memories are rushing into his mind. Shankar thinks that being the overemotional guy Jayanto is, he’s being nostalgic, so he doesn’t say anything in that matter.
They go for sightseeing in the compound and suddenly Jayanto remembers that there was a tall deodar tree there. He searches for it and finds it at the end of the compound. He looks at the trunk searchingly and says here he had met a European but doesn’t exactly remember who it was or how they had met.
They return to the Circuit house where Dilwar, the cook, has prepared their dinner. Meanwhile Jayanto seems to remember the old memory of the European. He tells Shankar the tale about Fritz which Shankar hears amusedly. It was a one-foot tall Swiss doll brought from Switzerland by his uncle for him. He says he was very much attached to the doll and was devastated when two stray dogs had mutilated it. He had buried the doll’s remnants under the very same deodar tree.
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As mentioned earlier, this story deals with themes of friendship , the superstitious and the supernatural. The story also deals with matters of the mind: reason , memory, and repression. Because memory forms a huge part of the story, it is only natural that the characters should constantly refer to the past and this results in a series of flashbacks. However, the transitions are carried out in such a smooth manner that it almost never disrupts the flow of the story but instead helps to maintain the tensionHis knack for retaining suspense is brillianty demonstrated in this story which hooks the reader right till the end. And even when the story ends, the suspense continues, leaving the reader baffled by what s/he’s just read. Fritz is one story where the reader is left with more questions after reading the story than when s/he began reading it. Some of these questions will be taken up later in the course of the analysis.