• Vikash Bhardwaj

  Author

• Surender Kumar

  Author

Teaching is not a passive activity, but the active one; it makes a character,
and provides an identity. It is not only a profession for wages, but also as a means of
self development. The Paper beautifully represents the psychological trauma of the
protagonist and his journey from disintegrated self to a confident, hopeful and
creative person. It tries to explore a new perspective into the novel, and observes the
self-discovery of a teacher through teacher-taught relationship. Although many critics
have observed the novel with the point of view of self-discovery, but no one of them
explored the self discovery emphasizing or through teacher-taught relationship. It
shows that Vasu Master develops an intimate relationship with Mani, based on faith
and support. Mani’s positive response during teaching, becomes a source of hope and
inspiration in Vasu’s otherwise empty life. The stories which Vasu tells to Mani, to
encourage, teaching him the moral lesion of life; becomes a source of inspiration for
‘Vasu’ himself. At the end, when Mani starts drawing pictures representing the
beginning of his education; Vasu seems refreshed and full of creative energy.
As described by many critics, the major theme of the novel is self discovery.
The paper represents not only the self discovery, also explains the means of self
discovery and its process; which we can see in the paper and the novel is ultimately
the teacher-taught relationship. The paper shows this whole process in a truthfully.

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