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As Margayya was disappointed with the priest and all his methods of deep prayer, he is now in a dire need of an worthy employment for himself. His earlier banking business produces no results, his old customers were reluctant to come near him because they fear he may demand their dues from them. So it was inevitable that his old business is gone forever. Now he is idle and spends much of his time at home. His wife scolds him to do something to cover domestic expenses. After spending much of his fortune on the silly deed on the advice of the priest, he is now left with 25 rupees with rejection from Goddess Lakshmi. It was indignant for him to stay at home all day with numerous visitors coming and going. They ask his wife about her husband not going out to work. Her wife also seems to irritate by his stay and she scolds him for not doing anything. His neighbours took note of his stay and took it for his inability to pay his creditors. After a month, he is left with 10 rupees and has ...

The novel "The Financial Expert" gives the readers a realistic and detailed picture of the father-son relationship. Margayya and his son Balu share a fraught relationship throughout the novel. From his childhood, Balu was nurtured as a pampered child solely because he was their only child who was begotten to them after a long period of time. Balu was a menace to his parents but his parents adore him. In the beginning, Margayya bowed to all of Balu's demand and envisage a bright future waiting ahead of him. He wanted him to study in the US and marry a judge's daughter. But as Balu grew, Margayya was caught up in his work and couldn't spend his time with him. Balu couldn't excel in his school nor he had any liking towards studies or exams. But Margayya was keen to get him passed through high school despite Balu's reluctance to not studying. That's where their relationship got much strained, Balu has transformed into an adolescent and due to his father...

The poem presents a vivid yet eye-opening description of an elementary classroom in poverty-stricken slums. He gives us an clear imagery of the children living away not just from the luxury of life but also the basic amenities. Through the poem, Spender makes a satire on the system where these children have no bright future The faces of the children sitting in the classroom reflect a bleak picture of their degraded health and undernourishment. As the poet says that these children's faces have a squeezed faces unlike a healthy child's puffy and round face, their hair seems to him "rootless weeds" and their skin is pale due to. sickness. In the classroom, a tall girl seated with her head down, a skinny boy with "rat's eyes" due to undernourishment, another one suffering from a hereditary disease of his father's recites a lesson from his desk. In the classroom marked by the gloomy conditions of these kids, among them is an unusually sweet and young ch...

The poem "Aunt Jennifer's Tiger" was written by Adrienne Rich, an American poet. The poem subtly reflects the burden of a woman due to the responsibilities and duties of married life on her. A woman has to handle the family and adapts herself to her husband and everything there. The poem begins with the narrator describing the "chivalric" and bright yellow-coloured tiger walking like a royal king upon its green world i.e. forest. These tigers are not afraid of human beings who sit beneath the trees. They just roam there in their care-free and elegant gait. The Tigers the poet is talking about are not real tigers, they are the creative work of Aunt Jennifer who used her sewing and pattern designing skill to create them on screen i.e a cloth. Aunt Jennifer's fingers faint while pursuing her hobby. Now she has a hard time even pulling the needle. Perhaps, it's due to her mental and physical fatigue of carrying out the marriage and its demands. The wor...

The poem "A Roadside Stand" is written by Robert Frost, a prolific American writer. The poem raises the issue of disparity between rich and rural poor people who lead a deplorable life in search of money. Frost is personally anguished by their state and wonders if he gets a chance to change their fate, he would do it but later he changes his mind. In a rural area, a little old house stands at the edge of a high traffic road. Attached to that house, a shed has been built to form a temporary shop to sell modest stuffs. Frost doesn't find it respectable to say that the shop is meant to get just "a dole of bread", he intends to say that it is a little step to earn some money from rich people. The hut-owner wants to earn a little bit of money which supports the city life. The road is busy with fast-moving vehicles passing without stopping or looking at the little shop. If any of them stops there, it is only to look at the signboard which tells the direction of th...

Kamala Das's poem "The Sunshine Cat" has both personal and universal elements reflected in it. Personal elements Like most of Kamala Das poetry, the poem sunshine cat is also a personal poem. the poem presents the downfall of the poetess who faced betrayal from both her alleged better-half and the lovers who used her to satisfy their carnal hunger. They refused to love her saying that it's not in their nature to love. After continuous failure in getting love, she was confined to a room by her husband whom she calls her a ruthless watcher. In the end, she ended up in the state of mental breakdown. Universal elements In addition to the poem being a personal poem, the poem reflects some universal happenings: The poem gives the real picture of the society where women have to live at the mercy of male members We also get a glimpse of mentality of some men who are keen to use a woman, usually an easy prey to quench their demonic thirst. The poem depicts the u...

The poem "A Thing Of Beauty" is written by John Keats, a famous Romantic poet. Keats died at a young age who wanted to see himself become a great poet and he achieved it. The poem is an excerpt from the Keats' "Endymion: A Poetic Romance". It deals with the poet cherishing the beautiful objects which give pleasure to the on-lookers. Certainly, he hails these natural creations of God which relieve us from all distresses. Keats hails the things whose beauty mesmerize the on-lookers and its impact will last long for a long time because we can imagine the pleasure of something beautiful long after in our mind. So it will be alive in our memories. A shade of a tree gives coolness and rest to one who comes under its hood. The cherished beauty will ensure peace of mind in a person and he/she will have a sound sleep full of joyous dreams. With it, his health will also improve due to peaceful mind away from distresses. One will breathe fresh air in the lap of flora....