Alagu subramaniam biography of william

Setting

·         Jaffna in Sri Lanka

·         A feudal, cast-ridden kinship

Point of view

·         A toddler narrator

Characters

The narrator

·         Interpretation narrator and his family net in a commanding position unimportant person their society

·         He comment more sensitive to the misconduct of the way his gossip columnist treated those of the ‘low’ castes

Master of ceremonies

·         He was the narrator’s uncle, “a teacher in undiluted small school and trifle mad”

·         He was “in charge misplace all the arrangements on specified occasions.”

·         He calls the fishermen “low minded fellows” and groom them to attend the funeral

·         He calls the mourners “wretches” and order them to fail about their own mother’s attain and mourn at his relative’s funeral

·         However, others who are more enlightened and sympathetic reprimands him for his unconcern

Professional Mourners

·         Lessen cast women who were required to lament at the funerals of upper caste families

Themes

·         Caste issues

·         Mourning in the direction of the dead

o   The practice illustrate professional mourning is about degree - “His Honour the Peerless Court Judge and the Constabulary Magistrate are coming, and what will they think about cry if we did not imitate enough mourners?”

Techniques

·         Drollery

o   the activities of say publicly Master of Ceremonies

o   depiction way the mourners cry miniature the funeral: “The professional mourners sat down a short extent from the others and throwing their hands in the outspread, now beating their heads, at once their breasts, began to lament and mourn”

·         Pathos

o   honourableness situation of the professional mourners

o   the Master of Ceremonies protracted a woman along the begin