Write summary of the chapter "The Gold Watch" by Ponjikkara Raphy.
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Summary of the Story
Introduction
Introduction : The writer of this story “The Gold Watch’ has described the psychology of a poor labourer in the story. He works in a factory. He is unskilled. He gets very low salary. His problems compelled him to commit the theft. He was not a thief. His name was Sanku.
Sanku’s family
Sanku’s family: Sanku had a family. He had a wife and two children. His wife was going to deliver the third child. The number of his farnily members was increasing
His problems
His problems : Sanku needed money very much. The money he got was not sufficient. He could not return the money taken on loan. He had to pay four and a half rupees for purchase at the store. But the problem was that the amount taken as loan was more than he would get as his pay from the factory. He had other needs
too. So he was in trouble. He had no peace in his mind. He started thinking how he could get more money for his reeds.
Engineer’s gold watch
Engineer’s gold watch : An engineer of his factory had a gold watch. He generally put this watch on his table near the glass window which remained half open. The engineer whenever went to lunch, left his watch on the table. All the workers of the factory also used to go out of the factory during their lunch hours.
Sanku stole the gold watch
Sanku stole the gold watch: Sanku decided to steal the gold watch, get rid of his problems. It was one O’clock. It was lunch time. Sanku saw that the engineer had gone out of his office. The glass window was half open and saw the watch lying there on the table. He stretched his arm and took away the watch. He was not an accustomed thief, therefore he hesitated committing the theft. He gathered the courage for stealing the watch and put it into his pocket.
Sanku’s nervousness
Sanku’s nervousness: Sanku felt greatly nervous when he stole the watch and put it into his pocket. He trembled and was afraid of being dismissed of the service and would be insulted if caught.
Sanku put the watch back
Sanku put the watch back: Sanku was troubled. He thought that the other workers of the factory would laugh at him. He would get ruined totally. Therefore, he put the watch on its place silently and went away from there
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• Chapter - The Gold Watch
• Writer - Ponjikkara Raphy
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The Gold Watch
The story The Gold Watch is written by Ponjikkara Raphy which very beautifully explains the human nature which has been developed in a person by so long. This story is all about a innocent person named Sanku who depicts a sense of truthful and honesty by his behaviour. Sanku is a poór worker in a shop factory. He is merely a worker who earns móney just to fulfil his livings. He always remains worried for the good health of his family. He works day and night in order to earn móney for his and his family's survival but it doesn't benefit him much. Once it was like, his family couldn't méet their súrvival and their basic neéds . He gets ténsed on seeing this. It wasn't his only problem. Actually he was in some loans also. He had some loans from tea shóp ówner, milkmán, fisher womén etc. who cónstantly asks him to return móney. Since he was a poór worker, he couldn't chánge his jób. All these things frûstrate him a lot. He remembers that his bóss that is the ówner of the cómpany in which he worked had a golden watch. His intention wasn't to hûrt anyóne's féelings. His thoughts weren't letting him steal that watch. His morale were pulling him back and stopping him from doing so. But he remembers the fútile condition of his family and thus manages to stéal the watch. Later he gets feared that his bóss would get to know of this and would throw him out of his jób. This fear makes him replace the watch and return it to his bóss.