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ICSE · Class 12 · English- Short Stories : Perspectives and Reflections
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Key Topics to Revise
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Chapter Overview
- The story is set in a small Indian town with crowded bazaars and harsh public behaviour.
- Suresh is a physically deformed, speech-impaired boy who is mocked by the bazaar boys.
- The narrator rescues Suresh from cruelty and takes him home.
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Characters and Their Roles
- The narrator is a writer who stays in a small Indian town, rescues Suresh, befriends him, teaches him to swim, and later leaves for a job in Delhi.
- Suresh is twelve or thirteen by face, but has the height of an eight or nine-year-old; he has bowed legs, a small chest, long ape-like arms, and smallpox scars.
- Suresh’s mother is physically normal, strikingly handsome, and deeply loving.
3
Major Themes
- Beauty and truth are linked to inner meaning rather than outward appearance.
- Kindness can restore dignity to a person ignored or mocked by society.
- Social cruelty is shown through the behaviour of the bazaar boys.
4
Important Events in Sequence
- The narrator sees boys bullying Suresh in the bazaar.
- A stone injures Suresh, and the narrator attacks the boys; they flee.
- The narrator takes Suresh home and meets his mother.
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The story challenges the ideaThe bazaar boys mock SureshThe narrator rescues SureshAlthough Suresh cannot speak clearlyThe little goat becomes important because
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