#PATHER PANCHALI ANALYSIS SERIAL#

As the train steams in, they board the train leaving behind Nischindipur forever with its many sweet and sour memories. They pack up and go to the railway station. After returning home he decides to leave Nischindipur. Horihor leaves home for a long period and struggles desperately to earn a livelihood. Durga, restless yet innocent, dies suddenly, plunging the whole family into grief and leaving her little brother all alone. The village festivity, the fair, and the Jatra performance, all bring variety and thrill to the monotonous flow of village life. It is the first time that Apu gets a glimpse of the outside world which fills his mind with joy and excitement. Apu is taken by his father to a client's house. Apu is admitted into the village school where many village elders assemble and talk on diverse subjects. He and his elder sister Durga are always out for some new adventures like roaming through the forests, taking part in indigenous games and plucking flowers and fruits stealthily. įour or five years later, the boy named Apu grows up to be very inquisitive and sensitive to the beauty and mystery of nature. The helpless old woman implores for shelter in her dying moments but she is heartlessly refused she passes away in a rice-barn. Indir Thakrun is mercilessly turned out of the hut for a trifling reason. Shorbojoya is jealous of Indir Thakrun as she thinks that Durga is more fond of the old woman than of her mother. Īfter some time, Shorbojoya gives birth to a son. However, Durga, Shorbojoya's six-year-old daughter, is very fond of Indir Thakrun and stays with her for hours to listen to fairy-tales. She is therefore given a tumble-down thatched hut to live in. Horihor's wife Shorbojoya, an ill-tempered lady, cannot bear the sight of the old woman. Indir Thakrun, an old widowed woman, who had nobody to look after her, takes shelter in the house of Horihor, to whom she is distantly related. Horihor Ray, an impoverished Brahmin, lives in the village of Nischindipur. It was followed in 1932 by a sequel Aparajito, which was adapted into a 1956 film of the same name by Satyajit Ray.

#PATHER PANCHALI ANALYSIS SERIAL#

It first appeared as a serial in a Calcutta periodical in 1928 and was published as a book the next year it was the first published novel written by the author.

Pather panchali analysis