Symbolism Of Hari In Homeless Bird

“I am the words, thou the melody; I the seed, thou the bearer; the heaven I, the earth thou.”- Homeless Bird. Hari is a character from the novel Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan. Hari is young and lives in India. He is also married to the main character of the book Koly and the rest of Hari’s family consists of , he is very sick and dying of Tuberculosis.

“Lying there in his bed without his wedding garments, he looked as thin as a willow twig and really weak,” since Hari is dying from disease and he has been bedridden, so he is very weak. The only time Koly describes him as wearing clothes they were at their wedding, and with that information given there is no solid description on what Hari usually wears. Koly also say that he is also pale,