Swami and Friends is the first of a trilogy of novels written by RK Narayan‚ a celebrated English novelist from India. RK Narayan started his prolific writing career with this novel Swami and Friends written in 1935. It is full of humor and irony. Narayan started writing this novel with the words “It was Monday morning…” to the auspicious time his grandmother chose for him. Like many of his fictional grandmothers‚ he was close to his grandmother who was well versed with astrology. Despite this it
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Children Have Imaginary Friends. At young ages‚ the children learn to communicate through role playing with their imaginary friends. Mark Taylor de Fell‚ professor of psychology at the University of Crayola‚ concluded that 65 percent of all children have make-believe friends at some point in their younger lives for two important resons. Firstly‚ imaginary friends can serve many useful purposes during critical points in the social development of children. These friends allow children to express
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Swami and friends a first novel written by R. K. Narayan testifies ingeniousness of writer. R. K. Narayan created well known fictional town Malgudi. which provided setting of almost all Narayan’s later Novels. Malgudi is on bank of river Sarayu. Sarayu is a pride of Malgudi. It flows across north like a silver belt. Its sandbanks were the evening resort to people of Malgudi. Swami and friends is a story of boy called Swaminathan. Who hates Monday loves Saturday. Throws away books
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in the world is Friends. Friends is a sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman. The first episode premiered in 1994 starring Jennifer Aniston‚ Courteney Cox‚ Lisa Kudrow‚ Matthew Perry‚ Matt LeBlanc‚ and David Schwimmer. The last episode aired in 2004. I watched the show with my mom when I was younger‚ now I am obsessed. I realized one day that my friends have a lot of the same qualities as the characters in Friends. While I can see all six characters in each of my friends‚ some act like one
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What is personality? Personality is partly reflected in what we do and say. For example‚ an optimistic person will work joyfully and speak about positive things while a pessimistic person will work sorrowfully and speak about negative things. Personality captures the central features of a person and it influences the person in different aspects of life such as work‚ marital life‚ studies and so on. Thus‚ people have interest to find out about themselves. In addition‚ this explains the reason of the
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My best friend Friendship is very important for everyone‚ especially me. During my studying from elementary school I have lots of friends. Among those‚ there are a few friends who are my best friends. Now I would like to describe one of my best friends whose name is Minhaz. The first reason I consider him as my best friend is that he has a very warm behaviour. He is so friendly when he meets me everywhere. For example‚ he always smiles politely on me that make me very happy when I meet him. Furthermore
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Swami and gets very attached with the character as the story progresses. That’s the magic of Narayan. Significance of the book... Swami and Friends by R. K. Narayan is not merely an interesting read that could be enjoyed from top to bottom. R. K. Narayan’s work attributes a lot of literary value‚ be it a teen book like Swami and Friends. Swami and Friends is good read for the kids and teens alike. Also the book is widely used in the Asian continent as a study text for the students who study literature
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The composition of human personality is the subject of innumerable theories. Each focuses on one or several particular aspects or dimensions of personality‚ but none appear to consider it in its full scope‚ depth and integrity. Some theories focus more on differences in type‚ others on the relative development of specific characteristics and competencies and still others on the dynamics of interaction between several psychological constructs such as Freud’s ego‚ super ego and id. A typological
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These so called friends who let me down Who made me feel as though I would drown? My heart was broken‚ like a death to grieve‚ These friends of mine‚ set out to deceive. We had been friends for many years‚ With much laughter‚ fun and tears‚ We’d had good times‚ but that was past‚ Like many things they did not last. They did not invite me‚ The hurt they caused‚ They did not ring or call‚ I think that just about say’s it all. In my awful dark despair‚ I really thought they would care‚ A note‚ a card
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THE MANY FACES OF A FRIEND We all have friends. We call them by different names. Regardless of the term we use‚ a friend to us is someone that is dear and important because of the many roles he or she performs in our lives. Though our parents and siblings are the most significant persons‚ the relationship we have to a friend is unexplainable and indescribable. Sometimes we are even more comfortable with a friend rather than our parents‚ brother or sister. Among our friends‚ we have someone whom
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