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    A horse and two goats

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    In spite of a world where the divergence of cultures is getting less in the course of time‚ clash of cultures still appear. In R. K. Narayan’s story ‘A Horse and Two Goats’ (1970) two persons from paradoxical cultures meet which leads to a massive communication gap exemplifying the inevitable differences between cultures. The story sets in India in a small town called Kiritam‚ the Tamil word for crown. The village is described as a “tiny dot”(p. 184‚ l. 2) and almost as an isolated dusty desert(p

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    First published in the Madras‚ India‚ newspaper The Hindu in 1960‚ ‘‘A Horse and Two Goats’’ did not achieve a wide international audience until 1970 when it became the title story of R. K. Narayan’s seventh collection of short stories‚ A Horse and Two Goats and Other Stories. It reached an even wider audience in 1985 when it was included in Under the Banyan Tree‚ Narayan’s tenth and best-selling collection. By this time Narayan was well established as one of the most prominent Indian authors writing

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    the relationship between Muni and his wife and the relationship between the American and his wife. Throughout the story “A Horse and Two Goats”‚ we can comprehend a lot of outstanding differences between the relationship of Muni to his wife and the relationship of the American to his wife. Two relationships are two details contributing to build the distinction between two cultures: India and America. Although they have many differences‚ there still exist some similarities between Muni’s relationship

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    delineate complicated characters. Narayan’s style was unpretentious and simple but it had an enduring quality that readers found attractive. Many of his stories have been adapted for movies and television. Background/Setting The story‚ The Horse and Two Goats is set in Kiritam‚ a fictional village somewhere in South India. It is no different from any other village in India. Most of the people are poor and barring one big house‚ the rest of the houses are all huts. There is one grocery shop where

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    A Horse and Two Goats is a short story written by R.K. Narayan‚ one of the most prominent Indian authors writing in English in the twentieth century. Taking place in a small village called Kritam‚ this short story revolves around Muni‚ an old poor man without education from a low caste in the Indian society. A Horse and Two Goats is divided into two parts‚ the first part where Muni and his wife’s life are being explored and the second part where the comic scene between Muni and an American takes

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    A Horse and Two Goats Detailed Summary "A Horse and Two Goats" is the story of a comical and fateful meeting between two men‚ neither of who speak each other’s language. Muni and his wife live in poverty in a remote village in India called Kritam. In his prosperous days‚ before pestilence took most of his cattle‚ Muni had 40 sheep and goats. Now‚ in his old age‚ Muni has just two goats. His usual daily routine is to take the goats to graze two miles from his home‚ alongside the highway‚ at

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    but humorous. At first‚ as you go reading‚ the story gives you a different idea of what is going to happen in it. Muni‚ the Indian village‚ wasn’t a wealthy man but he had his cattle to live on‚ but as it cattle went dying he was just left with 2 goats. He didn’t have much money‚ he was always asking for credit to the shop man and was always inventing lies to get the credit (the lies he came up with were funny). What confuses me more is when the foreigner comes into the story. They both are talking

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    In ‘To Da-Duh‚ In Memoriam’ and ‘A Horse and Two Goats’ both writers present conflicting ideas through language techniques‚ symbolism and themes. Paule Marshall’s ‘To Da-Duh’ expresses competition between the two main characters‚ her and her grandmother as an autobiographical story told from the point of view of an adult looking back on a childhood memory. R K Narayan wrote ‘A Horse and Two Goats’ in 3rd person displaying verbal difference between Muni‚ a poor Tamil-speaking villager‚ and a wealthy

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    goat

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    domestic goat (Capra aegagrus hircus) is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the family Bovidae and is closely related to the sheep as both are in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae. There are over 300 distinct breeds of goat.[1] Goats are one of the oldest domesticated species‚ and have been used for their milk‚ meat‚ hair‚ and skins over much of the world.[2] In 2011‚ there were more than 924 million live goats around

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    Goats vs Goats

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    The domestic goat (Capra aegagrus hircus) is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the family Bovidae and is closely related to the sheep as both are in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae. There are over 300 distinct breeds of goat.[1] Goats are one of the oldest domesticated species‚ and have been used for their milk‚ meat‚ hair‚ and skins over much of the world.[2] In the 20th century‚ they have gained popularity as

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