Summary Of The Lost Child By Bhisham Sahni

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Lost child by Mulk Raj Anand
A child goes to a fair with his parents. He is happy and excited and wants the sweets and toys displayed there. But his parents don’t buy them for him. He gets lost in crowd because he was enjoying the fair and walking slowly. Someone offered him several toys and sweets, but all he wanted was his parents.

Even here the child is fascinated by the toys and other events happening in the fair. His parents were poor and they didn’t buy him anything. I am sure that the child was getting some pleasure in watching all the toys. He must have imagined how he could use them and finally gets lost in the crowd. He started crying for his parents as soon as he realizes that he is away from his parents. I could understand the change that was happening in his mind. When he had parent, he wanted toys, but when he lost them, he started looking for his parents. This is the human tendency. People never think from their level. They always look for something better than the present. We always compare a situation with the present situation. We always make decision which would improve our life. I am sure that no one in this world would be satisfied with what they have, they always look for more.

Pali by Bhisham Sahni
Pali by Bhisham Sahni is a story of child who gets lost when the refugees were being transferred to India as well as Pakistan during partitioning. Yashpal, called as Pali gets into a lorry to Pakistan while his parents move towards India. He lives in Pakistan with a family who had no child. Pali stayed there for 3 years as a Muslim child. He learned all the Muslim customs. Then Manohar Lal, father of Pali finds Pali and brought him back to his house with a great effort.

I think Pali’s character is symboli...

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...ad no one to share his feeling or to play with him. I think he is enjoying or reliving his childhood by recreating his childhood through his stories.

Satish’s mother says that anything can happen in the railway station and no one can leave their leave their child alone in that railway station. I think people have a notion that if any crime or kidnapping is happening, it will happen only to children or women. This is so because of their weaknesses. Women are physically weak meanwhile children are mentally as well as physically weak.

Ruskin bond wrote this story in early 1960s.I am sure that he incorporated his childhood into the society of that time allowing him to relive his childhood. I think the problems in the society was due to greedy people, thieves etc. The society never bothered children; they accepted and responded to things which gave them pleasure.

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