LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 16:9 September 2016
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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The Impact of Anita Desai’s The Village by the Sea
on the Adolescent Psyche

K. Kaviyarasu and Dr. Shobha Ramaswamy


Abstract

Adolescence is the period of transition from a child into an adult which involves a lot of physical and mental changes wherein they tend to get distracted away from their regular, disciplined way of life that needs to be taken care of by people around them. Literature of such educating kind could help children keep themselves under check and control. The work taken for discussion is one such story The Village by the Sea by Anita Desai that revolves around the lives of two adolescents undergoing one of life’s greatest miseries. This paper highlights the positive psychological development of one of the major characters of the work that turns out to be opposite to the kind of its stereotypic characters.

Keywords: Anita Desai, The Village by the Sea, adolescence, stereotype

Hari, the Young Protagonist

Hari, a young protagonist about thirteen, is the main embodiment figure where he undergoes great responsibility with struggles through the novel. Identity and self-esteem play vital roles in the novel. The ongoing action of the novel is combined with an exploration of Hari’s emotions and feelings. His struggle along with his sister Lila is both significant and serious. His struggles as an adolescent are to pull his family out from the dark poverty, mother’s sickness and father’s drunkenness. In raising his family out of poverty, he makes his mind to move to Bombay city. He goes to Bombay to settle his family out from financial crunch. Here, the author portrays the innocence of a rural boy who was alienated from his village by himself. In the novel, Hari finds it difficult to feel optimistic about himself and his village. His poor self-esteem is connected with the idea of being poor and even believing that he deserves to be poor.

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K. Kaviyarasu
PhD Research Scholar
Department of English
Kongunadu Arts and Science College
Coimbatore – 641029
Tamil Nadu
India
kavienglit@gmail.com

Dr. Shobha Ramaswamy
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Kongunadu Arts and Science College
Coimbatore – 641029
Tamil Nadu
India
ramaswamy.shobha@gmail.com
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