Plotting the story

Plotting the story (pp. 61–76)

30 March: Describe the state in which Chid is.

Chid was in a very bad physical state. His body was so weakened by disease that he was not able to move. Suffering from fever, thirst and hunger, he was just lieing in a corner of a building groaning. He even could not re-enact on a dog coming and sniffing him. It made the impression as if he was lieing there waiting for dead.

His mental state was rather trance-like, so that he did not speak a lot.

Plotting the story (pp. 77–90)

25 April: Describe the relationship between the narrator and Chid.

The relationship between the narrator and Chid developed into something special.

After the narrator took Chid with him home, when she found him near to dead, she cared for him.But when he was healthy again, he did not intend to leave. He further drove the narrator with his behaviour like being dirty because he did not bath himself as Hindus usually do. He also stole things from the narrator because he did not believe in possessions, so that she had to hide her money, which he unfortunenatly found anyway, and he uttered Hindu sounds to his Hindu mediatations. Along with that it should be mentioned that the narrator was besides bad-tempered because of the hot weather, but it drove her crazy, so that a dislike against this Hindu rituals developed in her. All this lead one day to the event, that she threw him out, but he used the next opotunity to get into the flat again.

The relationship reminds of two parties who fight for the dominance without regard to the other persons.

Plotting the story (pp. 90-102)

pp.100-102: Why does Olivia so eagerly wish to have a baby?

The one thing, why Olivia wishes so eagerly to have a baby, is that she wants to be sure that everything is fine with her because she worries that anything could not be right with her body.

The other much more importand thing is that she is worried that her sympathy to the Nawab could develope into a affair. A baby with her husband would strengthen the relationship to her him immensely. So the baby is like a symbol for the shelter from the love to the Naway and therefor is is a garanty for the continued existence of her and Douglas marriage.