Rajam mani r&k narayan biography

In Rajam and Mani by R.K. Narayan we have the theme of conflict, jealousy, fear, friendship and loyalty. Taken from his Swami and Friends collection the story is narrated in the third person by an unnamed narrator and from the beginning of the story the reader realizes that Narayan may be exploring the theme of conflict.

Despite the calm environment that Mani and Swaminathan find themselves in by the Sarayu River there is an air of menace coming from Mani. He does not like Rajam who has just started in the same school as Mani and Swaminathan.

If anything Mani is jealous of Rajam because he is better than him in school and appears to make friends easily. He does not prejudge people either. Something that Mani is guilty of doing when it comes to Rajam.

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This only furthers the conflict between the two boys with Swaminathan acting as an intermediary. In order to help both boys to come to some form of agreement. In reality Mani and Rajam are very similar.