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What forced Hari to leave Thul and how Desai keeps reader's sympath for the boy? (Village by the Sea- Anita Desai)
Title: What forced Hari to leave Thul and how Desai keeps reader's sympath for the boy? (Village by the Sea- Anita Desai)
Category: Literature / European Literature
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What forced Hari to leave Thul and how Desai keeps reader's sympath for the boy? (Village by the Sea- Anita Desai)
What are the pressures that force Hari to leave the village and how does Desai keep the readers sympathy for the boy?
'These webs were small and thickly matted and stretched across the grass, each with a hole in the centre to trap passing insects'. Hari, the ordinary, poor and helpless Indian boy was in the same position as the insects and the web was nothing but poverty.
Hari has a lot of problems and …showed first 75 words of 849 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 849 total…Sick mother, drunken father, sisters to be married off and no dowries? You all pumpkin-heads are the same." (pg 64) Man from Bombay insults Hari but he is so curious about the factory that he has to sustain the man's insult and listen to what he says.
As a conclusion, pressures exerted on Hari are pressures from people, family and poverty. Anita Desai keeps the readers sympathy by making Hari look weak, helpless, and insulted. "Pumpkin-head."
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