“LIKE THE SUN” by R. K. Narayan ABOUT THE AUTHOR. R. K. Narayan (1906–2001) was born in Madras‚ India. After completing his education‚ he taught in a small village school. Narayan left teaching to devote himself full time to writing‚ and in 1935 he published his first novel‚ Swami and Friends. Two other early works‚ The Bachelor of Arts and Mr. Sampath‚ helped establish his reputation internationally. The Financial Expert (1952)‚ his first novel to be published in the United States‚ was followed
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In the short story‚ Like the Sun‚ author R.K. Narayan expresses the importance of telling the truth‚ being honorable‚ and imposes the consequences of telling the truth. In this short story the main character Sekhar reflects on truth and decides to tell the complete truth for one whole day. He goes through a series of challenges throughout the day‚ but still sticks to his promise to tell the truth. Sekhar believed this was an honorable thing to do. In the end though he has to face the consequences
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how the authors of “Like the sun” and “The open window” present the concepts of truth and deception. Then i will also state what rolls paradox and irony play. In the book “Like the Sun” Narayan uses paradox to show how telling the truth really can do more harm than it can help. In the beginning he decides Sekhar (the main character) needs to tell the truth that whole day. Then his wife asks him how the breakfast she made him was. He tells her the truth and says he doesn’t like it‚ this angering
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“ Tell all the Truth but tell it slant.” In the story “ Like the Sun” Sekhar plans to tell the truth for a whole day‚ but telling the truth got Sekhar in trouble. He ends up lying to his wife and kids. Honesty is not always the best policy because‚ it could hurt someone’s feelings‚ get someone into serious trouble‚ Firstly‚ Honesty is not the best policy because you could hurt someone’s feelings. If someone asks you if they look alright and you say no‚ they are going to take that offensive. In
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Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun portrays an African American family during the 1950s in conflict over money. Walter‚ Benita‚ and Ruth were the main characters that showed there greed over Mama’s deceased husband insurance money. This subject became a dilemma with the Younger family. There were arguments‚ fights‚ and people becoming stressed over something that were not theirs. The greed of money almost tore the Younger family apart. Each family member’s selfish desire for the use of the
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A Raisin in the Sun Summary Living in the south side of Chicago a poor African American family had he opportunity to escape poverty. A 10000 life insurance check upon the death of Lena’s husband. Lena has a son named walter. Walter is 35 with a wife and a son. Lena also has a younger daughter named Beneatha. Beneatha Is in college. This money could mean so much for this family and so much more for them individually. So the question in all of this is: what are they gonna do with the money. Walter
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are thought to be honest no matter how difficult it may be and are granted accolade‚ for the encouragement of doing it again. Honesty is favored in life by everyone‚ so people know the facts and build our character on it. People use honesty on our likes and dislikes in life‚ and by letting others know a part of our lives. Everyone is entitled the right to be sincere‚ but there are those who are imposters of candor because honesty is difficult to express rather than lying which requires minimal courage
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A Raisin in the Sun; Lorraine Hansberry Themes: One of the central themes depicted in the play A Raisin in the Sun‚ written by Lorraine Hansberry‚ was racial discrimination. Because the main characters in the family of the play were African American during the time when racism was still greatly expressed‚ the Youngers endured hardships that complicated their goal of the American Dream. They were looked down upon and rejected because of the color of their skin‚ but they did not let that stop them
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My Mistress’s Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun The tone of this poem is serious and comical. He realizes the imperfections in humans. This is clear in the poem in line 1 “my mistress’s eyes are nothing like the sun” (Shakespeare W. My Mistress’s Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun). Generally poets would worship their loved ones features‚ however the speaker appears to joke about this person’s features in this poem. In line 9 – 10 “i love to hear her speak‚ yet well i know that music hath a far more
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this poem is humorous and realistic‚ because most poets‚ who are writing sonnets‚ would praise the ones they love and not be realistic about their imperfections. “My mistress’s eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red (line 1 / 2)” Here he is comparing her eyes with the sun and the colour of her lips with coral red. “And in some perfumes is there more delight / Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. (line7 / 8)” Here he states that his mistress breath’s stinks
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