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Action and Reaction-Chithra Fernando

Analysis of the plot
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A story that looks at middle class values and a false notion of piety satirically
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As in Professional Mourners the narrator is a generation removed from the main protagonists and as a
result of education maintains a distance from the assumption and values of his parents’ generation
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Loku Naenda the main protagonist is satirically portrayed from the onset of the story
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She conducts public acts of
“giving” in order to accumulate merits ensuring a better life
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Loku Naenda decides to adopt a little girl called Kusuma
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Kusuma is very much a servant in the story
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ex:-She didn’t allow Kusuma to be an educate person, she prevents the marriage of
Piyadasa and Kusuma
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At the end Kusuma becomes Loku Naenda’s alter ego
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At the end of the story there’s a clear action and reaction
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Mahinda and Mala can be seemed as the epitome of Karmic law
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Mahinda provides the thematic elements of the story
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Social and religious middle class values
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Child adoption
Appearance vs reality

Techniques
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A typically Sri Lankan story
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ex:-Loku Naenda,Kewum,,,
Humour and irony
First person point of view



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