Compulsory English : Imp Questions

 Q. Why does shambhu's mother not want to see the film?

- Sambu's mother does not even want to see her husband again on the film screen as he has passed away in the recent past. She does not hate her husband, in fact, but she just does not want to recollect her past experiences with her husband. IT is only due to the persistent requests of her son, Sambu, she goes to theatre to watch the film. He feels very discomfort to sit in the theater, accumulates all her courage to sit down in the hall. Her heart beats fast when she sees her husband walking, dressing, singing and playing with children. She feels the show as an affliction (a cause of pain) to her. Unable to bear to watch the movie, eventually (finally) she becomes fainted.

Q. How would you describe shambhu's reaction at end of the story.

- The end of the story is also interesting as Narayan manages to bring in a slice of reality into the story when Sambu begins to cry. It is as though Sambu has had a moment of realisation and realises that what he is seeing in the cinema is not real. That his father is truly gone. Though this moment of realisation may be difficult for Sambu at the end of the day it is helpful to him. Though he doesn’t know it yet. It means that Sambu is able to move on to the next step in grieving the loss of his father. He now has the opportunity, though painful, to accept that his father is no longer with him.