"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours". ~Wayne Dyer
Whenever I heard the word karma, for me it is the outcome or the result of the bad things you did to others. It is the return of those evil things you have done to other people. In this selection, karma means fate which has the power or agency supposed to determine the outcome of events before they occur.Here in the story,it is not only talking about karma but also the story of a person's acceptance of own nationality.Karma in this selection was being emphasized to Sir Mohan Lai, he is a Hindu and knows and love to live and speak in English way.
Because of his obsession on American way of living, he forgot his nationality and he don't even speak his own language which is Hindustani. It is not wrong to adore and love the culture of other country, but as a person, we should be proud of our own race. He even want to impress all the Hindu people in the train that he knows English and that he is not an ordinary Hindu man but rather an educated and an intelligent man.
Pretending to be someone will never bring good to ourselves. Just like on what had happened to Sir Mohan Lai, he expected that people would see him as a high class person in society because he is like an Englishman in the way he speak and his manner of dealing with people around him. But his expectations were all wrong, he was being dumped outside the train because of his boastfulness.
I never anticipate that scene where he was like a trash that has been threw out roughly. I observe that the Hindu people were very caring when it comes to their culture.Here in the Philippines, every time we encounter a person which is very good in speaking English, we really appreciate that person and and put him in the pedestal. But in the story, all his efforts just to have a good impression to the Hindu people were being rejected.
His fate was not that good as he thought.I have learned that we should love our own country first before appreciating those of others.
I truly appreciate the efforts you've made to create a blog design for yourself. With your reaction, it's capsulizing the essence of not looking after for the good impression of others.It's good to appreciate other culture but not to copy.After all, we have 'beauty' we can call our own.And that's where the strength resides.
ReplyDeleteVery nice story review Regine!