Dhumketu (Gaurishankar Govardhanram Joshi). The Letter-Summary Essay

-Dhumaketu (Gaurishankar Goverdhanram Joshi) (SUMMARY) Dhumaketu can be exalt as a prolific writer who has given a very(prenominal) vivid and wonderful description of the crossroads and its people, along with the nature and forlornness of human beings. The story talks about coachman Ali who could not bear the pain in the neck of separation when his daughter left after her marriage. His loneliness gained momentum with going of time in which he desperately waited for a earn from his daughter Miriam. The story begins with a very vivid description of how silent the village was wrapped in deathly silence. The description of it being early break of the twenty-four hour period time and people fast asleep in a winter morning is very well portrayed through various phrases such as early dawn stars, distant steps, occasional bark of dogs, and so on The old man goes to the post-office everyday occupying a particular seat with a fixed purpose awaiting a letter from his daughter. Peop le found him to be a lunatic and laughed at him. In the following lines of the story we convalesce Ali missing from the post-office for several days as he falls regurgitate terribly. At last, he reaches the place one day and asks for the some(prenominal) wait letter. The postmaster gets infuriated and chases him away. Although this angers Ali, he doesnt lose his temper. He gives five well-off guineas to the postmaster to forward his letter to his grave as he considers that very day to be his last day of survival. He was never seen again.The turning foreshadow in the story comes when trouble knocks on the postmasters door in the form of news about his own daughter who lay dispirited in an early(a) town. He was anxious about receiving a letter from her, discussing her health. He searched in the pile of letters and to his shock, found Alis much awaited letter from his daughter. His anger disappeared in a whiff and he sent for the postman to send it to Ali right away. The story h ere turns preferably heart-rendering when the postmaster feels empathy towards Ali. He is grieved because of his condition and is filled with sympathy for the old man. He and then personally went to the post office to give Ali the letter. To his amazement, Ali received the letter with thankfulness and tears in his eyes. The postmaster shrunk back when he noticed a unaccented of kindness when Ali received the letter. The postmaster narrated this entire story to the postman.When asked on whom he byword the postmaster said he saw Ali. This is when he came to know that Ali had died three months before. Here, the mazed postmaster found at the doorway that Ali had disappeared. Imagination had deceived him. That evening he went to Ali s grave and laid the letter there. Empathy makes us understand each some other and build strong relationships. One can feel the anxiety of other when one finds himself in that particular situation. In the end of the story, tortured with compunction and grief, the postmaster waits for news from her ill daughter, passing a restless night beside the oxford grey sigri.