“A Horse and Two Goats” is a short story written by R. K. Narayan, from India. Basically, the story is about two individuals, an American and an Indian, trying to converse and communicate, but they can not seem to understand each other because of the lack of knowledge in the other’s language and culture. The story spans over a very short time, perhaps a hour or two. And it takes place in a very small village called Kiritam, in India.
Summary:
The Indian called Muni takes the goats to their usual spot it is a grassy place near the highway, there he is sitting in the shade of a life-sized statue of a horse with his forelegs in the air and beside the horse stood a warrior with scythe-like moustaches. The statue is moulded out of clay, barked, burnt and coloured and has stood there in more than seventy years. As Muni waits for the sight of a green bus to return home, a man step out of his car and went up to the horse. It was a red-faced American man dressed in Khaki clothing who probably a businessman, from New York asks Muni “How do you do?” Muni don’t wants to speak with him and his first impulse is to run away, but he can’t and therefore he has two communicate with the American man which seems difficult because they speaks in separate language and cannot understand each other. But later on he is very grateful for the American’s kindness.
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