write the summary of the chapter the lost child
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A child’s mind wanders to each and everything which catches his fancy. While his parents are going ahead with all their attention on reaching the fair, the child enjoys every beauty of nature’s creation. The child enjoys the sight of dragonfly fluttering. Next moment he is engrossed in collecting beautiful flower petals. The very next moment he is appreciating the gait of swan.
Once in the fair his mind is wandering on everything on display. Right from colourful sweetmeats to balloons to garland to the snake his eyes are devouring everything on sight.
The child’s mind lives in the present and never thinks or bothers about past or future. This is what the author has tried to portray.
While engrossed in enjoying the colourful fair, the child gets lost. Probably he is too overawed by the colourful balloons, sweets, garlands, toys to keep pace with his parents.
Like any child he wants everything from the fair. He wants to have his cake and eat it too. But he knows that his father won’t be buying anything and would give some or other excuse for not doing so. In a way this shows that child has matured as well. He knows how to control his urges. He also understands that because of some reasons he won’t be in a position to have each and everything from fair.
It is difficult to explain if he understands the right reason of his father refusing to get most of the things for him. Like all good parents his father may be wishing not to spoil his kid. While the child may be getting a wrong message that his father is always furious and adamant.
When he wishes to get a ride on the roundabout and calls for his parents he gets no reply. Then the child realizes that he is lost and separated from his parents.
His anxiety has been described by explaining how the child reacts and tries to find his parents. This is a very natural explanation and the author has avoided using difficult allegory. This makes the narrative simple to read and enjoy.
The child looks to his front and back and left and right. Then the child tries to find his father among people wearing yellow shirts but all his glimpse could catch yellow blobs in the crowd. At last he goes to the shrine, in the hope of finding his parents there.
This shows that the child is quite courageous and instead of crying his heart out he tries to find his parents. He doesn’t concede defeat at first go.
For any child the security of cosy feeling of being with the family is the most important. While, the kid is with his parents he is enjoying everything on display in the fair and in the natural backdrop of butterflies, flowers and swan.
Once the harsh realization of being lost comes to his mind his top priority is to find his parents. Because parents give you long term sustenance, which can’t be provided by the neighbourhood uncle. The person who is trying to pacify the child by offering him many goodies will at the most give a temporary succor to the child. But to continue normal life he needs to be united with his parents. Although a child may not comprehend this complex thing, but the natural instinct of parent child bonding makes him behave the way he is behaving.
Once in the fair his mind is wandering on everything on display. Right from colourful sweetmeats to balloons to garland to the snake his eyes are devouring everything on sight.
The child’s mind lives in the present and never thinks or bothers about past or future. This is what the author has tried to portray.
While engrossed in enjoying the colourful fair, the child gets lost. Probably he is too overawed by the colourful balloons, sweets, garlands, toys to keep pace with his parents.
Like any child he wants everything from the fair. He wants to have his cake and eat it too. But he knows that his father won’t be buying anything and would give some or other excuse for not doing so. In a way this shows that child has matured as well. He knows how to control his urges. He also understands that because of some reasons he won’t be in a position to have each and everything from fair.
It is difficult to explain if he understands the right reason of his father refusing to get most of the things for him. Like all good parents his father may be wishing not to spoil his kid. While the child may be getting a wrong message that his father is always furious and adamant.
When he wishes to get a ride on the roundabout and calls for his parents he gets no reply. Then the child realizes that he is lost and separated from his parents.
His anxiety has been described by explaining how the child reacts and tries to find his parents. This is a very natural explanation and the author has avoided using difficult allegory. This makes the narrative simple to read and enjoy.
The child looks to his front and back and left and right. Then the child tries to find his father among people wearing yellow shirts but all his glimpse could catch yellow blobs in the crowd. At last he goes to the shrine, in the hope of finding his parents there.
This shows that the child is quite courageous and instead of crying his heart out he tries to find his parents. He doesn’t concede defeat at first go.
For any child the security of cosy feeling of being with the family is the most important. While, the kid is with his parents he is enjoying everything on display in the fair and in the natural backdrop of butterflies, flowers and swan.
Once the harsh realization of being lost comes to his mind his top priority is to find his parents. Because parents give you long term sustenance, which can’t be provided by the neighbourhood uncle. The person who is trying to pacify the child by offering him many goodies will at the most give a temporary succor to the child. But to continue normal life he needs to be united with his parents. Although a child may not comprehend this complex thing, but the natural instinct of parent child bonding makes him behave the way he is behaving.
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The short story “The Lost Child” by Mulk Raj Anand describes how a little child was lost in the crowd of a village fair. One day, on the day of the spring festival a large crowd of brightly dressed people came out of the lanes and alleys of a town and headed towards the village fair. Among them a happy little boy was following his parents. The little boy lagged behind his parents as he was attracted by the toys displayed in the shops of the fair. He wanted to have a toy but he received an angry look from his father and his kind-hearted mother asked him tenderly to see what was before him. Then he began to sob as his desire was not fulfilled by his parents. Soon, they came into a vast stretch of mustered fields filled with yellow flowers stretching into miles like a rippling yellow river. The little boy’s eyes were filled with delight and amusement looking at the beautiful natural scenery.
The child’s joy knew no bounds. He left the footpath and entered into the mustard-field and began to chase butterflies and dragon flies and tried to catch them if possible. His mother warned him not to go far away and asked him to be with them. He joined his parents and walked along them with side be side but again left them being attracted by a number of little worms and insects. He was once again called back by his parents who were sitting on the edge of a well in a grove. They were seated under a huge banyan tree which stretched its branches over smaller trees such as the jack, champak and gulmohur. When the child moving towards his parents with capers under the banyan tree where he lost his way and found himself in the fair again.
Once again he came back to the fair unexpectedly. In the fair the child was attracted by the cries of a sweetmeat seller. His mouth watered for the burfi which was favourite to him. He knew very well that his desire would not be fulfilled, yet he spoke of it in a whisper then moved on without waiting for an answer. Then he came across flower seller, a balloon seller and a snake charmer who was playing on a flute before a snake. But the child had to pass on knowing that his parents were not ready to satisfy his desires. At last he came to a place which gave him the greatest attraction. It was a roundabout. He watched it going round and round with merry band of men, women and children on it. As soon as it stopped he boldly asked his parents for the pleasure of a ride on the roundabout. There was no answer from his parents. He turned round to see his parents but his parents were nowhere.
Upon finding himself alone and bereft of his parents, he ran here and there with no respite in sobbing. His turban came off and clothes became shabby with sweat and dust. He tries to find his parents in the people who are busy in laughing, jesting and moving all round. Tired from running the little boy stood sobbing for some time and then started running again. He ran desperately through people’s legs, crying ‘mother, father’. At the door of the temple the crowd was so thick that he was knocked down and was about to be trampled when he was picked up by a man in the crowd. The man came out of the crowd with the boy and asked him whose boy he was. The child only cried bitterly, saying that he wanted his father and mother. The kind hearted man tried to console the child by offering him a ride on the roundabout, but the child repeated his cry for his parents. Next The man took him to the snake-charmer but he refused to listen to his flute; then he offered to buy him the bright coloured balloons. Finally, the man tried to console him with some sweets, but all his efforts failed. The child only sobbed ‘I want my mother, I want my father.’
The child’s joy knew no bounds. He left the footpath and entered into the mustard-field and began to chase butterflies and dragon flies and tried to catch them if possible. His mother warned him not to go far away and asked him to be with them. He joined his parents and walked along them with side be side but again left them being attracted by a number of little worms and insects. He was once again called back by his parents who were sitting on the edge of a well in a grove. They were seated under a huge banyan tree which stretched its branches over smaller trees such as the jack, champak and gulmohur. When the child moving towards his parents with capers under the banyan tree where he lost his way and found himself in the fair again.
Once again he came back to the fair unexpectedly. In the fair the child was attracted by the cries of a sweetmeat seller. His mouth watered for the burfi which was favourite to him. He knew very well that his desire would not be fulfilled, yet he spoke of it in a whisper then moved on without waiting for an answer. Then he came across flower seller, a balloon seller and a snake charmer who was playing on a flute before a snake. But the child had to pass on knowing that his parents were not ready to satisfy his desires. At last he came to a place which gave him the greatest attraction. It was a roundabout. He watched it going round and round with merry band of men, women and children on it. As soon as it stopped he boldly asked his parents for the pleasure of a ride on the roundabout. There was no answer from his parents. He turned round to see his parents but his parents were nowhere.
Upon finding himself alone and bereft of his parents, he ran here and there with no respite in sobbing. His turban came off and clothes became shabby with sweat and dust. He tries to find his parents in the people who are busy in laughing, jesting and moving all round. Tired from running the little boy stood sobbing for some time and then started running again. He ran desperately through people’s legs, crying ‘mother, father’. At the door of the temple the crowd was so thick that he was knocked down and was about to be trampled when he was picked up by a man in the crowd. The man came out of the crowd with the boy and asked him whose boy he was. The child only cried bitterly, saying that he wanted his father and mother. The kind hearted man tried to console the child by offering him a ride on the roundabout, but the child repeated his cry for his parents. Next The man took him to the snake-charmer but he refused to listen to his flute; then he offered to buy him the bright coloured balloons. Finally, the man tried to console him with some sweets, but all his efforts failed. The child only sobbed ‘I want my mother, I want my father.’
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