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Writing Assignment: Identify the main themes of the story. Then select two themes and briefly explain how each is depicted in the story. Support your ideas with at least one quote from the text for each of the themes you select. Be sure to include page numbers for each quote.

The most important theme in this short story is the misunderstanding between two men. The two main characters in the short story couldn't be more different: Muni is poor, brown, rural, uneducated, Hindu, the American is wealthy,white, urban, educated and white. They descended from different culture. Each man is quite ignorant of the others way of life. And this makes them so different. It shows how far apart these two worlds are. Not only by the language also by the way these people think. They do not realize that they are not really communicating. Each speaks at length about his own life with no awareness that the other does not understand him. ===="Nothing ventured, nothing gained," the red-faced man said to himself. And then, "Will you take a hundred rupees for it?" Which encouraged the other to go into details. ….How many of your children are boys and how many girls? Where are they? Is your daughter married? Is it difficult to find a son-in-law in your country also?" (S. 113, Z 25 - S. 114, Z. 1)==== Of course that is connected with the social environment. But also an important point is the money, the level of wealth. Wealth and worth, these are two different worlds. Like the worlds of Muni and the American. I think that the inability to communicate in this story leads only to confusion. In this story one can see how poor and how bad the world is. 1273605451 1273701470~