Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayan‚popularly known as RK Narayan‚was born in 1906 in Madras(India).As is the custom in south India‚’R’ in his name stands for Rasipuram‚the name of the village to which his family belonged.though his family originally belonged to Rasipuram‚long before Narayan’s birth it had moved to Madrasand it was here in 1906 that RK Narayan was born.soon after his birth his father got a job as a teacher in Mysore and the family shifted to Mysore.while his brothers and sisters went
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literature in English to the rest of the world‚ and is regarded as one of India’s greatest English language novelists. Early years R. K. Narayan was born in Madras (now known as Chennai)‚ Madras Presidency‚ British India.[1] His father was a school headmaster‚ and Narayan did some of his studies at his father’s school. As his father’s job required frequent moves‚ Narayan spent part of his childhood under the care of his maternal grandmother‚ Parvati.[2]During this time his best friends and playmates were
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“Holding Things Together” and “forty-five a month” are about the difficulties people face in maintaining close relationships. Who shows the greatest sense of responsibility toward a relationship: Lucy in “Holding Things Together” or Venkat Rao in “forty-five a month”? Both “Holding Things Together” by Anne Tyler and “forty-five a month” by R.K. Narayan are about the difficulties people face in maintaining close relationships. Venkat Rao‚ in “forty-five a month”‚ shows the greatest sense of responsibility
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About the author RK Narayan brought Indian writing in English to western nations. He was helped in the venture by Graham Greene. Narayan’s stories mostly have the fictional town of Malgudi as their geographical reference point. Malgudi could be anywhere in India. It is a microcosm of the huge country. Even today there are readers who believe that Malgudi exists; so realistically did Narayan describe the place. Narayan’s stories were brief‚ some barely ten pages long‚ but within this he was able
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According to the story ‘The Five-Forty-Eight’‚ the writer John Cheever tells us about Blake’s stalker Miss Dent. A woman‚ whose psychological and emotional instability‚ becomes the aim of Blake’s dishonesty. Blake is a successful businessman‚ who preys on people who are weak. He is very confident that there will be no serious penalties. When Miss Dent gets the job as his secretary‚ it is her chance to re-form herself‚ and get over her mental sickness. Instead‚ Blake took advantage of her mind‚ has
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In "The Five-Forty-Eight‚" John Cheever‚ portrays a struggle of good vs. evil. The effect is largely contributed by the story’s characters Blake and Mr. Dent‚ and Cheever’s Symbolism shown through Blake. The Character Blake has some distinct morality issues that projects the evil he has done. Blake the evil force in the story posses many character flaws that are indicative of the force he portrays. He is self-absorbed‚ manipulative and shallow and has isolated himself from his friends and family
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very important‚ to who the characters are and how they act. In the stories that were read the relationships shown were both strong and weak. Depending on how the characters act toward each other‚ it determines their relationship. The stories‚ Forty-five a Month and The House on the Border‚ both have very weak relationships‚ whereas the story‚ The Ch’i-lin Purse‚ has a very strong relationship. In a relationship one person sometimes depends on the other‚ but if the other does not support the other‚
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Darya Dotson 02/17/06 Literary Heritage Summary Five-forty-Eight In the short story Five-Forty-Eight John Cheever demonstrates the effects a man can have on a fragile women. There are two characters is this story: Blake (the business man) and Miss. Dent (the women scorned). She had been his secretary whom he slept with a consequently fired. Miss Dent was not stable mentally and she didn’t take this very well. The story starts out with Blake getting off the elevator in the building he
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Analysis RKS Guitars doesn’t have a strategy to set their product firmly and sustainable in the guitar market. The symptoms of this problem can be seen in the slow logistics of shipping and assembly of the products that were not matching the order deadlines and also the high costs that involved the full process of guitar development and advertising compared to the low perception of earnings that the company feel at that moment. The alternatives for the company are the following: 1) RKS must
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“The Five-Forty-Eight” is a short story about a boss who takes advantage of a secretary with a mental health disorder and fires her the next day. As a result‚ the secretary follows her boss home‚ months later‚ on the five-forty-eight train to inform him how much better she is than him. The short story ends with the secretary humiliating the boss and becoming more self-assured. John Cheever’s short story‚ “The Five-Forty-Eight”‚ contains themes of sin‚ deception‚ and redemption that merge together
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