Themes:
1) Sense of belonging and companionship
2) Companionship
3) Reciprocal relationship
1) Sense of belonging and Seperation
• THE POSTMASTER- The postmaster who is a city lad from the city of Calcutta feels out of place in the village of Ulapur where he was posted, as it is mentioned in the text the unnamed postmaster “felt like a fish out of water in this remote village. The longed for his family, his mother ,his elder sister and brother
• RATAN- She is introduced as an orphan ,who did odd jobs for the postmasterand as her job required her to stay in close vicinity of the postmaster they soon established a comfortable relationship. Being an orphan she longs for affection and a sense of belonging, by spending so much time with the postmaster …show more content…
The postmaster was hence forced to live a solitary living and with nobody to interact to he was desperate for human company. He opens his heart to the only avid listener available, Ratan, an orphan girl. They often used to slip into casual conversation which led them to have a comfortable relationship with each other. His desperate need for companionship and her desperate need for belonging led them to have strange but intimate relationship.
3) Reciprocal Relationship – The postmaster starts teaching ratan to read in return for her small …show more content…
The postmaster feel sick, ratan cured him back to his health after this the postmaster decided to leave his job so his applied for a transfer reasoning it that the village had unhealthy working conditions. His transfer was rejected , but he has determined to leave the place therefore he decided to resign. When the time of parting finally came the postmaster felt that he should offer the servant girl something for all her work and the care she took of him so he offered her money, at this she was heart broken, the servant girl broke into tears and ran away refusing such help. Although in the end when the postmaster get on the boat to leave he wishes to go back and get ratan and take her home to his family but realizes then that there is no possible relationship with ratan and tries to comfort himself but thinking that there are so many separations and death in the world but the world moves on despite of all
1) Sense of belonging and companionship
2) Companionship
3) Reciprocal relationship
1) Sense of belonging and Seperation
• THE POSTMASTER- The postmaster who is a city lad from the city of Calcutta feels out of place in the village of Ulapur where he was posted, as it is mentioned in the text the unnamed postmaster “felt like a fish out of water in this remote village. The longed for his family, his mother ,his elder sister and brother
• RATAN- She is introduced as an orphan ,who did odd jobs for the postmasterand as her job required her to stay in close vicinity of the postmaster they soon established a comfortable relationship. Being an orphan she longs for affection and a sense of belonging, by spending so much time with the postmaster …show more content…
The postmaster was hence forced to live a solitary living and with nobody to interact to he was desperate for human company. He opens his heart to the only avid listener available, Ratan, an orphan girl. They often used to slip into casual conversation which led them to have a comfortable relationship with each other. His desperate need for companionship and her desperate need for belonging led them to have strange but intimate relationship.
3) Reciprocal Relationship – The postmaster starts teaching ratan to read in return for her small …show more content…
The postmaster feel sick, ratan cured him back to his health after this the postmaster decided to leave his job so his applied for a transfer reasoning it that the village had unhealthy working conditions. His transfer was rejected , but he has determined to leave the place therefore he decided to resign. When the time of parting finally came the postmaster felt that he should offer the servant girl something for all her work and the care she took of him so he offered her money, at this she was heart broken, the servant girl broke into tears and ran away refusing such help. Although in the end when the postmaster get on the boat to leave he wishes to go back and get ratan and take her home to his family but realizes then that there is no possible relationship with ratan and tries to comfort himself but thinking that there are so many separations and death in the world but the world moves on despite of all