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    Digital Assignment - V Technical English - 1

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    The document summarizes a short story called "The Boundary" by Jhumpa Lahiri. It discusses two families - a native family who lives in a rural cottage year-round, and a visiting urban family who is vacationing there for a week. While the visiting family appreciates and enjoys the rural setting, the native family envies aspects of the visiting family's urban lifestyle, though they themselves moved to the countryside after suffering discrimination in the city. The document analyzes how the two families have different perspectives on their situations and environments, and the author of the short story seems to be conveying that having a positive outlook can lead to a more rewarding life.

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    The document summarizes a short story called "The Boundary" by Jhumpa Lahiri. It discusses two families - a native family who lives in a rural cottage year-round, and a visiting urban family who is vacationing there for a week. While the visiting family appreciates and enjoys the rural setting, the native family envies aspects of the visiting family's urban lifestyle, though they themselves moved to the countryside after suffering discrimination in the city. The document analyzes how the two families have different perspectives on their situations and environments, and the author of the short story seems to be conveying that having a positive outlook can lead to a more rewarding life.

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    The document summarizes a short story called "The Boundary" by Jhumpa Lahiri. It discusses two families - a native family who lives in a rural cottage year-round, and a visiting urban family who is vacationing there for a week. While the visiting family appreciates and enjoys the rural setting, the native family envies aspects of the visiting family's urban lifestyle, though they themselves moved to the countryside after suffering discrimination in the city. The document analyzes how the two families have different perspectives on their situations and environments, and the author of the short story seems to be conveying that having a positive outlook can lead to a more rewarding life.

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    Digital Assignment - V Technical English - 1

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    Majety Yaswanth Yuvi
    The document summarizes a short story called "The Boundary" by Jhumpa Lahiri. It discusses two families - a native family who lives in a rural cottage year-round, and a visiting urban family who is vacationing there for a week. While the visiting family appreciates and enjoys the rural setting, the native family envies aspects of the visiting family's urban lifestyle, though they themselves moved to the countryside after suffering discrimination in the city. The document analyzes how the two families have different perspectives on their situations and environments, and the author of the short story seems to be conveying that having a positive outlook can lead to a more rewarding life.

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    DIGITAL ASSIGNMENT – V

    TECHNICAL ENGLISH -1
    NAME: M.YASWANTH
    REG NO :19BCE0656
    SLOT: L11+L12/L27+L28
    STORY : THE BOUNDRY—WRITTEN BY JHUMPA LAHARI

    "The Boundary," a short storey by Jhumpa Lahiri, discusses the life of two
    families and the difference between them.

    It's features amongst them. The first family is hosting others on vacation,
    particularly other families.
    There are four vacationers in the week of this storey, a mother, a father, and two
    daughters;

    But only the narrator and his or her father are present in the native home, since
    the mother is somewhere else.
    Throughout the novel, the two families have displayed a distinct characteristic
    of humanity: jealousy. Although this is not a sinister envy, the holiday family,
    who come from an urban region, demonstrates a strong desire for the lifestyle of
    the other family, without understanding the struggles they face: I realise how
    much the guests like this rural, unchanging setting, how much they appreciate
    every detail, how much they like.I wonder, at the same time, what they feel
    about loneliness here.
    What are they going to know about the Days in our dilapidated cottage, still the
    same?
    The nights when the world appears to be shaking when the wind
    blows too hard, or when the sound of rain keeps me awake? Are the months
    when we live alone among the hills, the horses, the insects, the birds flying
    through the fields?

    Will they like the rough silence of the Reig?The native family, represented by
    the quotation, often envies the other family, their happiness in particular, and
    their lifestyle by extension. But their envy is different and motivated rather than
    desire by tragedy:

    Also, we used to live in the city. In that same piazza, my father sold roses.
    My mom used to help out. Three men turned up one night.
    It was late and my father was home. Along with the others, then,
    My father yelled, but at that hour no one heard. They said , Go back to
    wherever you came from. They took the bouquet and left him like that on the
    ground.
    Using inferences, one can assume a major reason of the native family’s
    decision to move to a rural area is the father’s embarrassment and victim status.
    Yet, they still envy the visiting family.

    I find this ironic. Look at it like this: out of a distinct, tragic circumstance, a
    family moves away to only surround themselves with people that remind
    them of themselves before moving.

    I also find this passage commenting on perspective of one’s situation.


    The visiting family obviously has a good perspective on their temporary
    location, despite the nuisances described by the narrator, but the native
    family obviously despises their location, despite once finding it
    desirable. While more (possibly more important) themes are present, this
    one resonates with me the most, possibly due the fact that I am
    graduating soon, I and am realizing that I could have had a more
    positive outlook on life throughout high school but knowing I did not.
    In short, Lahiri , the author, is telling the audience that one should look for
    all aspects of their life, not to focus on the negative, and doing so will result
    in a rewarding life.

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