Saturday, June 20, 2009

Who is my favourite/least favourite character in Village By The Sea

Well, I would choose writing on what my least favourite character.
My least favourite character in Vilage by the Sea is Hari.
Although Hari is the protagonist in the story, I dislike his attitude towards life as it is very pessimistic. He always thinks that his family will never get out of poverty no matter what he or his family tries. On the other hand, his good friend Ramu is a very optimistic person. Ramu feels that there is always a chance of getting out of poverty. He was very optimistic about getting a job in the factory that was never built. Hari felt that they had no chance in getting a job in the factory as neither of them graduated from college or completed school. He also felt that even if they had the job, they could not operate the machines. But Ramu replied,"We can learn!" I admire Ramu for being optimistic and feel that Hari should learn from him. Although in the end, Hari went over to Bombay and worked there, and when he returned he changed his family's life, I feel that he could get his family out of poverty earlier if he had changed his mindset.

But the good thing about him is that he was able to change his mindset when he came home from Bombay. He came home with ideas like setting up a clock repair shop and a poultry farm.

In all i feel that he was at first, the one who actually made his families problems look worse with his pessimistic mindset, hence he has to fret over his these same problems over and over agian.

2 comments:

  1. Nice post!

    I was surprised when you wrote Hari. All everyone wrote him as the "most favourite character"! Interesting!

    Generally ,this is well-writen and evidence from VBTS is stated. However , the moment you wrote about the good things , it is like contradicting , though you might weight the good and bad things about him , i dont encourage it.

    Nice!

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  2. Cool!I love your blog post!=)
    I was amazed that you chose Hari as your least favourite character.Even though you chose him,you still can provide evidence to show it.Great job
    Hmmm... Quite unique but Keep it up!!!!

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