By talking to the grandfather and Ratna, people also felt relieved, Burdens are lightened when they are shared. A horegallu under a shady tree, sometimes with cool drinking water nearby, lets the people carrying burdens sit for a while and relax, getting back their energy. We can definitely relate grandfather and Ratna to a horegallu because they helped people in unburdening themselves. But they were simply horegallus giving the people temporary relief from their inner burdens.Ĭan we relate grandfather and Ratna to a horegallu? Why? The grandfather and Ratna might not have solved people’s problems. By opening theirmind, people feel relieved.
They listened to people with sympathy and no judgment. They used to sit down and calmly listen to the problems people have. I do think that the grandfather and Ratna were doing tremendous social service. The author expects each of us to be a horegallu.ĭo you think that the grandfather and Ratna were doing some tremendous social service? Explain. The horegallu will not solve your problem but it gives you a temporary relief. If there is some patient and sympathetic listener, we can unburden ourselves and feel relieved. Each one of us carries burdens of various sorts. Life is a journey and we all are travellers. Tired travellers unburden themselves, sit, and talk to some sympathetic listener. Such stones are usually under shady trees.
Comment.Ī horegallu is a stone bench on which tired people can rest and regain their energy. The author wishes there were many more of ‘horegallus’ in the world. She believes that when a person in stress finds an outlet for is worries, it relieves him a lot.
She simply listens to the people with sympathy and without any judgment. She is not a trained counsellor or an intellectual and she can’t solve people’s problems. Her simplistic outlook is God has given her two ears to listen to others. A cheerful person makes you also cheerful and this it is infectious.ĭuring lunch hours, Ratna would sit with some person in one of the rooms and they would be chatting. A smiling person brings smile to your face. But when you attend a wedding, you have a happy look. When you attend a funeral, everyone wears a sad look. Like certain diseases, emotions are also infectious in the sense that they spread fast. Infectious means ‘contagious’, something that spread fast. When we share our problem, our burden, with others, it will definitely relieve us.Ĭomment on the expression, ‘infectious cheerfulness’. There is nobody in the world that has no problems at all. ‘Burden’ symbolically means our troubles and tribulations. We may not be in a position to help everybody’ to solve his problems, but at least we can give people a sympathetic hearing and it will help them.īring out the symbolic significance of the word ‘burden’. The author is trying to tell us that we too must be like the horegallu. Life is a journey and we all need horegallus every now and then to regain our energy. It is true that horegallu gives everyone the opportunity to regain their strength. What does the author try to indicate her? ‘Horegallu ’ gives everyone the opportunity to regain their strength. A sympathetic listener will help the person with troubles to relieve himself of his burden at least temporarily. There is nobody in this world that does not have problems of some sort. Every now and then we need to sit down, and refresh ourselves. Is ‘horegallu’ essential in a journey? Why? The villagers would talk of their troubles to him and he would listen. The grandfather refreshed the travellers just by listening to them. How does the grandfather refresh the travellers? When she felt tired after playing she would also sit near her grandfather listening to the conversations he was having with the villagers resting there. The tired villagers would come and sit on the stone bench and talk to her grandfather.
Her grandfather was a retired school teacher and he would sit on the horegallu under the banyan tree in the village. The special memories the author associates with ‘horegallu’ are about her grandfather sitting on the horegallu talking with villagers who work in the nearby fields. What are the special memories the author associates with ‘horegallu’? It helps tired persons to sit down and rest for sometime so that they can regain their energy. What is a‘horegallu’? What is its purpose?Ī horegallu is a stone bench.
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Kerala Plus Two English Textbook Answers Unit 1 Chapter 4 Horegallu (Anecdote)
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