4. Will He Come Home?
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| P Satyavathi |
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2/ How did the people in olden days show concern for social values ? Explain in the light of the short story Will he come home’.
P. Satyavathi is a noted Telugu writer. She produced a lot of Telugu stories and got reputation with her prize winners stories. Her stories go round the lives of women and are very interesting with humour and anxiety. The story is translated into English by Y. Padmavathi.
Modern changes in life style have brought a lot of changes in thinking. Invention of Television, made a notable change in our daily life. Women sit before this small machine hours together and are accustomed to follow the stories, serials and other programmes. They include horror, envy, revenge and so on. Women are habituated to think about these serials and are anxious to know the conclusion. Savitramma is the grandmother of Vijaya. Vijaya’s son is studying B.Tech. One day the boy did not return home, after the college hours.
Vijaya’s anxiety grew hour by hour. She had watched many episodes on the screen of the T.V. There were many stories running in her mind. Accidents while riding a motorbike, Laptop snatching by robbers and ultimate fighting, comments on the girl friend at a birthday party, and ultimate death in the river fighting while swimming, cricket betting problems and several other incidents come into her mind. She was helpless. It was late in the night and the boy had not turned up. She did not take food not even a glass of water. The grandmother was trying to comfort her. The mother was in panic.
Vijaya was thinking in the negative side only. Her mind was fully dumped with similar events exhibited on the screen of the T.V. The grandmother was remembering similar experiences in her life and was trying to bring some solace. Vijaya was recollecting the occasions in which she suggested the boy not to go in for anybody’s rescue. This idea was not acceptable to grandmother. She said that there should be compassion in one’s life. They were anxious but the boy did not come, even the next morning. The author did not tell about the boy’s return. It is not known whether the boy will come or not.
