Knapps Relational Stages

Knapp’s Relational Stages, as found in the class notes, can be defined as the following. “A model of relational stages that breaks the rise and fall of relationships into ten stages comprising two broad phases of ‘coming together’ and ‘coming apart’ which are overlapped by a third phase called ‘relational maintenance’; the ten stages are initiating, experimenting, intensifying, integrating, bonding, differentiation, circumscribing, stagnating, avoiding, and terminating.”
Topic in the story: Knapp’s relational stages are an important feature to the story “Interpreter of Maladies”, more specifically, the stages of experimenting, intensifying and terminating are clearly seen between Mr. Kapasi and and members of the Das family. The stage of experimenting