Question

The story contains a number of references to the work of a butcher. Find and copy three such extracts. Why does Babuli so often think these thoughts?

Answer 1

Three references to the work of a butcher:

I felt as if the butcher was sharpening his knife, humming a tune and waiting to tear me into large chunks of meat, and consoling me saying that there is a better life after death. (paragraph 10)

Instead you have sold it to the butcher to help yourself become a city Baboo!! (14)

It was like the butcher’s knife going to the stone to sharpen itself. (30)

The idea of the butcher recurs because for Babuli the division of the family land was like the slicing out of the flesh of a domestic body which his parents had nourished since the day of their marriage.