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- The concluding story, Under the Banyan Tree, is about a village story-teller who concludes his career by taking a vow of silence for the rest of his life, realizing that a story-teller must have the sense to know when to stop and not wait for others to tell him.
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Sep 6, 2023 · Complete summary of R. K. Narayan's Under the Banyan Tree. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Under the Banyan Tree.
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Nov 1, 2020 · When Nambi had a story to tell, he would lit a lamp and place it in a hollow space in the trunk of the banyan tree. The villagers would notice the lamp and know that their enchanter had another story to entertain them with. They would hurry up with their meals and gather under the banyan tree.
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This is the title story of this collection of tales by R.K. Narayan. It concludes the collection with the story of a simple village in South India called Somal, where an aged storyteller named Nambi lived. Nambi seems to resemble R.K. Narayan, especially in relation to R.K. Narayan during his later career. Nambi, like R.K. Narayan, was getting olde...
We see in this short story titled ‘Under the Banyan Tree’ that there are several indications of the life and works of R.K. Narayan. Here are a few of those indications analyzed in-depth, along with other themes of interest related to this story. Simplicity From the lifestyle choices of Nambi, the storyteller to the life choices of R.K. Narayan hims...
‘Under the Banyan Tree’ ends with Nambi’s silence, but he was not forgotten, and his legacy lives on. So also, the legacy of R.K. Narayan lives on through his Malgudi stories and his other South-Indian-based stories in the portals of Indian fiction written in English. Grahame Greene once said in an introduction to one of R.K. Narayan’s works: Nambi...
The concluding story, Under the Banyan Tree, is about a village story-teller who concludes his career by taking a vow of silence for the rest of his life, realizing that a story-teller must have the sense to know when to stop and not wait for others to tell him.
- R. K. Narayan
- 1985
Under the Banyan Tree is an enchanting collection from India's foremost storyteller R. K. Narayan. The collection of stories includes warmly observed characters from every walk of Indian life. As for example merchants, beggars, herdsmen, rogues, etc.
Sep 6, 2023 · The ending of the story is abrupt and cryptic. Nambi concludes his long and illustrious career as a storyteller by saying that the goddess has taken away his gift and no longer uses him as...
Jan 1, 1985 · Perhaps the finest story of all is 'Under the Banyan Tree', which relates how an enormously popular village storyteller decides to give up his role and make a vow of silence in the face of advancing age and declining mental powers.
