Leela s Friend By R K Narayan Main

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Leela’s Friend By R. K. Narayan

Main Points • Caste Prejudice - Sidda never stands a chance • Leela and Sidda - a special friendship • Sidda - weak and vulnerable • Adults versus Sidda - prejudice • Adults versus Leela - condescension • Leela versus Adults - stubborn and principled

Caste Prejudice • Treated impersonally – …brooding over the servant problem. – ‘Doesn’t seem to be a bad sort… At any rate, the fellow looks tidy. ’ • Homeless – …indicated a vague somewhere… – ‘Why should he always be made to sleep outside the house, Mother? ’ • Assume the worst – It seems he is an old criminal…The police know his haunts. – These fellows…have no fear. Nothing can make them confess.

Leela and Sidda • Source of happiness – Leela…looked at Sidda and gave a cry of joy. – His company made her supremely happy. – It gave her great joy to play the teacher to Sidda. • Mutual devotion – …Sidda had to drop any work he might be doing and run to her… – She pitied him and redoubled her efforts to teach him. • Extremely close – Day by day she clung closer to him…all her waking hours. – I won’t sleep unless Sidda comes and tells me stories. – She clung to Sidda’s hand…in tears.

Sidda • Magical imagination – ‘…if you stand on a coconut tree you can touch the sky. ’ – …told incomparable stories… • Human limitations – [Sidda], though an adept at controlling the moon, was utterly incapable of plying the pencil. • Treated like an animal – Sidda stood with a bowed head…looking at the ground. – He looked at her mutely, like an animal.

Adults versus Sidda • Mr Sivisanker – …subjected him to a scrutiny… – …grew very excited over all this… – …in any case, we couldn’t have kept a criminal like him in the house. • Mrs Sivisanker – Leela’s mother threw a glance at him and thought the fellow already looked queer. – The thought of Sidda made her panicky. – ‘What a rough fellow he must be!’ said his wife with a shiver. • The Police – What a devil you mist be to steal a thing from such an innocent child!’

Adults versus Leela • Bullying – Her mother gave her a slap and said, “How many times have I told you…” – …attempting to make her lie down… ‘Sleep, Leela, sleep, ’ she cajoled. • Condescension – …all of them laughed… – ‘You are not a reliable prosecution witness, my child, ’ observed the inspector humorously. – ‘Baby, if you don’t behave, I will be very angry with you. ’ • Irritation – All of this bother on account of her.

Leela versus Adults • Chooses Sidda – ‘Don’t send him away. Let us keep him in our house. ’ – And that decided it. • Defends Sidda – ‘I don’t like you, Mother. You are always abusing and worrying Sidda. ’ – ‘…leave him alone. I want to play with him. ’ • Disapproving and superior – ‘Let him be, ’ Leela replied haughtily. – Leela felt disgusted with the whole business.

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