Character Analysis

Here is a brief character analysis of the characters of the characters in 'The Village by the sea'.

Hari:
1.Protagonist of story
2.Only son of his family
3.Assumes duty of taking care of mother and siblings
Lila:
1.Oldest in the family
2.Assumes duty of taking care of siblings and parents
Bela and Kamal:
1.Helped to pick shellfish as food for family
2.Younger sisters of the family
3.Only members of family who are currently studying
Mother:
1.Fell ill with anaemia(lack of iron)
2.Sick for most of the story
Father:
1.Irresponsible as a father
2.Perpetually drunk
3.Turned over a new leaf towards the end of the story
Ramu:
1.A friend of Hari's
2.Looking forward to new jobs after the factories have been built in Thul.
3.Quit school
Biju
1.A wealthy fisherman
2.First to own a diesel engine boat in Thul
Pinto
1.A dog living with the family
2.Later killed by the drunk Khanekar brothers
3.Devoted to the family, especially Lila
Hira-bai
1.Tried to help the mother by sending the medicine man to cure her
Khanekar brothers
1.Drunk, just like father
2.Wanted to collect debts from the family
The de Silvas
1.Owns a bungalow in Thul
2.Goes to Thul for holidays
3.Helped send mother to hospital
4.Gave jobs to Hari and Lila when they went to Thul
Jagu
1.Owns an eating house in Bombay
2.Lives in a slum
3. Gave Hari food, shelter and a jobs while Hari was at Bombay
Mr Panwallah
1.Repairs watches for living
2.taught Hari how to mend watches
3.A nice person
Mrs Jagu
1.Unhappy when Jagu brought Hari back home as they did not have enough food to go around in the family.
Policeman
1.Protected Hari while he was sleeping in the park during his trip to Bombay
Sayyid Ali Sahib
1.Came from Bombay to Thul to look research on the birds in Thul
2.Gave the sisters jobs when the de Silvas returned to Bombay
Adarkar
1.Led villagers to protest in Bombay as they were unhappy about the building of the factories
Watchman of factory
1.Hated Thul
2.Shunned the villagers, thinking that they were dumb and uncivilised


This is the end of the character analysis.

Review for VBTS

I have been reading a book for literature and it is called The Village By The Sea. It is wirtten by Anita Desai.

Throughout the story, various themes are depicted such as family, the ability of the villagers to adapt to the changing environment, kindness in the city, poverty of the villagers and benefactors.

The main chracter, Hari, decides to run away to Bombay to look for jobs, leaving his sister to look after their two younger siblings, because he is very frustrated by his dysfunctional family, with a mother who is severely ill, and the father being always drunk.

During his journey in Bombay, Hari is lost in the urban city, but gets help from some benefactors, who took care of him, gave him food and shelter and taught him new skills to help him survive when he goes back to Thul.

It is a great book and I recommend it to anyone looking for a read.

Organ Trading

Recently, there has been a big event which happened. It is none other than the organ trading case. Organ trading is illegal in Singapore and other countries across the world. Yet one man flouted the rules and bought an organ from an Indonesian man. After being found out, he was charged and punished.

I think that organ trading should not be made legal. Because, if it is made legal, those poor people who don't have enough money to pay for an organ will not get any organs. These people may be in worse conditions than the rich people, who can afford to get organs. Then, the poor would die and the rich would live. I think this is terribly unfair. If our society is like that, many problems would arise and the poor would always die first and the rich people would die later. I hope the man mentioned above will get his just deserts.

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