In spite of a world where the divergence of cultures is getting less in the course of time‚ clash of cultures still appear. In R. K. Narayan’s story ‘A Horse and Two Goats’ (1970) two persons from paradoxical cultures meet which leads to a massive communication gap exemplifying the inevitable differences between cultures. The story sets in India in a small town called Kiritam‚ the Tamil word for crown. The village is described as a “tiny dot”(p. 184‚ l. 2) and almost as an isolated dusty desert(p
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First published in the Madras‚ India‚ newspaper The Hindu in 1960‚ ‘‘A Horse and Two Goats’’ did not achieve a wide international audience until 1970 when it became the title story of R. K. Narayan’s seventh collection of short stories‚ A Horse and Two Goats and Other Stories. It reached an even wider audience in 1985 when it was included in Under the Banyan Tree‚ Narayan’s tenth and best-selling collection. By this time Narayan was well established as one of the most prominent Indian authors writing
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Name: Tran Thuy Hang Culture & Literature Dr. Ryan March 5th‚ 2013 Answer the question: Compare the relationship between Muni and his wife and the relationship between the American and his wife. Throughout the story “A Horse and Two Goats”‚ we can comprehend a lot of outstanding differences between the relationship of Muni to his wife and the relationship of the American to his wife. Two relationships are two details contributing to build the distinction between two cultures: India and America
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delineate complicated characters. Narayan’s style was unpretentious and simple but it had an enduring quality that readers found attractive. Many of his stories have been adapted for movies and television. Background/Setting The story‚ The Horse and Two Goats is set in Kiritam‚ a fictional village somewhere in South India. It is no different from any other village in India. Most of the people are poor and barring one big house‚ the rest of the houses are all huts. There is one grocery shop where
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A Horse and Two Goats Detailed Summary "A Horse and Two Goats" is the story of a comical and fateful meeting between two men‚ neither of who speak each other’s language. Muni and his wife live in poverty in a remote village in India called Kritam. In his prosperous days‚ before pestilence took most of his cattle‚ Muni had 40 sheep and goats. Now‚ in his old age‚ Muni has just two goats. His usual daily routine is to take the goats to graze two miles from his home‚ alongside the highway‚ at
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A Horse and Two Goats is a short story written by R.K. Narayan‚ one of the most prominent Indian authors writing in English in the twentieth century. Taking place in a small village called Kritam‚ this short story revolves around Muni‚ an old poor man without education from a low caste in the Indian society. A Horse and Two Goats is divided into two parts‚ the first part where Muni and his wife’s life are being explored and the second part where the comic scene between Muni and an American takes
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but humorous. At first‚ as you go reading‚ the story gives you a different idea of what is going to happen in it. Muni‚ the Indian village‚ wasn’t a wealthy man but he had his cattle to live on‚ but as it cattle went dying he was just left with 2 goats. He didn’t have much money‚ he was always asking for credit to the shop man and was always inventing lies to get the credit (the lies he came up with were funny). What confuses me more is when the foreigner comes into the story. They both are talking
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Culture Clash It was as early as the advent of widespread rail travel that the philosophy of globalization materialized (Scheuerman). Distances previously unpractical to traverse were now able to be traveled safely and quickly. As the concept of distance as a major barrier to travel began to erode‚ another concept--that of an effectively shrinking world size--began to emerge. As time passed‚ and transportation technology advanced‚ our world began to grow ever smaller. Communication improved
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"Culture Clash" I am a born Vietnamese‚ and Chinese American. For more than a decade I have made many friends coming from diverse cultures. I recall one friend back in high school that demonstrated the importance of one’s own private culture‚ and language. From this experience with my friend‚ Hong‚ I realized that families who had a strong cultural‚ and language practice at home had a very stable and functional family. Individuals who embrace their culture‚ and language broadly tend to pass on
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Clash of Cultures Anthony Reyes‚ History/110 August 21‚ 2013 Clash of Cultures Native Americans and Colonist had sophisticated differences with so many factors‚ adding West Africans to the new world would contribute to even more catastrophic events to the three cultural groups during the changeover‚ the a chronologic and historical event leads to what is known today as the “Clash of Cultures.” Native Americans and Colonist at Jamestown Jamestown‚ sits in the fort of Virginia where
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