Of White Hairs and Cricket

A Horse and Two Goats is a short score written by R. K. Narayan, from India. Basically, the story is virtually two individuals, an Ameri force out and an Indian, trying to converse and communicate, but they shag not seem to understand from individually one other because of the lack of cognition in the others language and culture. The story spans a very short time, maybe a half an hour. As it is revealed in the very beginning of the story, it takes place in a very small closure called Kiritam, which is only represented by a tiny dot on the local survey map.The narration of the story goes chronologically, in a third-person omniscient view, with the main characters being an American tourist and an old Indian man. Both of the characters seem a infinitesimal bit ignorant and ethnocentric, as none of them have competent background knowledge of the others culture and language. The occurrence that they can not understand each other can be looked upon as the main conflict.However, by what is told, it seems like if the American should know more than about Indian culture, than what the old man should know about the western ways. This is because the American is a loaded person, probably a businessman, from New York, who has had a lifelong dream of visiting and comprehend India. Somebody like this should probably had more cultural knowledge that what is shown. Along with this, he shows lack of respect when he sees a statue he finds to his liking, and wants it in his possession at once.He thinks he can clean purchase it from the old man, without considering what the statue means for him or the native people. This way, the American is presented as a typical wealthy western person, who is quite a materialistic and thinks that money solves all problems. What can be considered as odd, and perhaps on the button another example of western ignorance, is that the American naturally assumes that because the old man stands beside the statute, he owns it.