<CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
It is a humorous short story which highlights the fact that over caring and over parenting spoil the child. This story brings out a comical situation between a teacher and his naughty student.
The teacher in the story ‘Crime and Punishment’ by R.K. Narayan is a hardworking man. He teaches 6 hours in the school and then he comes to teach the small boy in the nursery for just 30 rupees a month. He has to work for three hours in the nursery teaching the child.
The teacher suffered at the hands of the parents also. Every day he had to listen to the lectures of the parents on child psychology for half an hour. The father had written a thesis on infant psychology for his M.A. The mother had studied a good deal of it for her B.A. So, both lectured to him on the same lines. It seemed that the parents of the boy thought he was made of thin glass. They pampered him a lot and they wanted the teacher also to be very kind to the boy and not to annoy him in any way. The teacher found it hard to manage the boy. The boy had a lot of love and money. His parents built the nursery for him. They bought him expensive toys. They even gave him a small pedal motor to move about in the garden. His cupboard was filled with chocolates and biscuits which he could eat whenever he wanted.
Even if the teacher tried to correct him, he made purposeful mistakes over and again. The teacher lost control and slapped him on the face. The hard slapping made a red mark on the cheek of the boy. The boy started blackmailing the teacher. The boy asked the teacher to act as the stationmaster for his toy train. When the train stopped running, the boy wanted the teacher to repair it. As the teacher was not mechanical minded he could not repair the same. Then the boy made the teacher tell stories. The teacher narrated the story of the tiger and the bison and the story of Ali Baba and forty thieves. The boy insisted that the teacher should narrate the story of the tiger and bison again. When the teacher refused the boy ran home and teacher had to run after him. The parent noted the same and teacher responded to his queries in a positive tone. When the father asked why they were running about, the teacher said that they were playing to keep up their spirits. The story ends by revealing the composed, positive and tolerant attitude of the teacher.>
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