Name- Miss.S. Ranjitha Reg. No- 5871 The Research article, “Love makes a better human being” An analysis of R.K. Narayan’s novel the English teacher is submitted to the Advanced Technology Institute Of Jaffna in 2013, in order to fulfil the requirement of the Higher National Diploma in English.
HIGHER NATIONAL DIPLOMA IN ENGLISH
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ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE
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CHAPTER ONE 1.0- INTRODUCTION
A better human being without any trace of the hive-mind narrative probably wouldn’t have been perfect, but it almost definitely would have been an improvement. It has the typical R. K. Narayan signature in the way the researchers would like to listen .R. K. Narayan was one of the path breakers in Indian literature and paved the way for Indian authors who wrote in English. His novels portray the life of common man in the colonial and post – independence period. Usual Narayan’s literature is filled with humour and reality of an Indian life but the English teacher reveals the other side of the author. Its true story happened with Narayan and he portrayed the character of English teacher very well. It’s more than literature. It moves you to spiritual and emotional side. It is really in epic.
The English teacher is believed to be a semi-auto biographical account due to similarities between the author’s life and the plot. Some of the other written by R. K. Narayan are Malgudi