2. • Plot
• Information about the author
• Description of main characters
• The importance of colours
• “Death” in the story
• Feeling of empathy
• Tones
• Themes
3. • A group of children how are all from the same
family, sons and cousins wants to go outside to
play, finally they go outside to play and they
decide to play ‘hide and seek’. They started
playing and Ravi hides behind a garage. The
brother of Ravi is caught by Raghu how was the
“seeker”. Ravi suddenly goes through a small
gap into an abandoned shed next to the garage
were he spend many hours, and when he goes
out he saw his bothers and cousins singing a
song of death, and he is ignored because none
of them realized he was missing.
4. • Anita was born in 1935 in Delhi to a German mother and a Bengali
father
• She has said that she grew up surrounded by Western literature and
music, not realizing until she was older that this was an anomaly in
her world where she also learned the Eastern culture and customs.
• She married a businessman at twenty-one
and raised several children before becoming
known for her writing.
• She once wrote: "I see India through my
mother's eyes, as an outsider, but my feelings
for India are my father's, of someone born
here" (Griffiths).
• She is considered the writer who introduced the
• psychological novel in the tradition of Virginia
• Woolf to India.
5. • Ravi is a Indian little boy, who likes to play
games with his friends, and dreams of coming
out triumphant in a game of hide 'n' seek. Ravi
wants to increase his odds of winning. Then, at
the end, when he won the game he realizes that
they have all moved on with their games and
completely forgotten him.
6. • Raghu is a secondary character in this short
story. He also is an Indian boy, the story is about
a group of children that are allowed outside to
play hide and go seek and Raghu is the oldest.
He was about fifteen years old, he was
aggressive with Ravi and he always win.
7. • The description of the setting where the colours
play an important role because they transmit
how hot the place was and the darkness of the
shield the feeling that Ravi was having in that
moment. When Ravi goes out of the sheld and
sees the pallid faces of the others children and
the darkness of the shadows of the trees it
seems that the children are ghosts and the
place looks like a cemetery when he had the
impression of “dead” to the other people that
they never noticed that he wasn't there.
8. • The Twilight games are connected to death and
also to the passing of life. This is find in the story
in two specific moments, when Ravi is inside the
sheld and it is describe as a tube and the second
moment is when Ravi reapers and the other
children are playing another game, singing a
funeral song. At this moment Ravi experiences at
same type of death because he realizes his not
important and that the others didn´t notice that
he was absent. This game happened a Twilight
which is the end of the day, so it can be
connected to death.
9. • We feel empathy for Ravi because we
can understand that for Ravi this is
more that just a game. The technic
that the author used to show this is to
take us into Ravi´s mind.
11. • Desperate: The children wants to go out, to play and
they were so desperate to go out because they really
want to play outside “hide and seek”, and Ravi as well
was desperate to find a new place to hide from Rahu
and also because of the hot.
• Playful: They insist on going outside, they can go and
they started playing different kinds of games like “hide
and seek” and they were having fun.
12. • Frightening/Scary: When they were playing “hide
and seek”, Ravi entered to the sheld and it was dark
and a little bit of light can come in and also he heard
different sounds, and he felt insects like spiders that
were there.
• Triumphant: Ravi a part from being scared in the
shed, he stayed in the shed thinking on the time in
winning being the youngest for first time.
13. • Embarrassing/Humiliating: When Ravi got out of
the shed thinking he won, all his “friends” were
playing another game so he felt embarrassed and
humiliated, and also this opportunity where he won it
would be the first time he won something.
• Melancholic: Anyone remember Ravi and all his
cousins and brothers were singing a song of death
and they forgot about him.
14. • Fantasy VS Reality
• Alienation and Insignificance
15. • Ravi doesn´t like his reality. He lives a life were he is
insignificant and his older brother is aggressive.
When Ravi is inside the shed, he dreams on winning
the game for his first time and by winning being
better that Raghu, but when he got out we love the
sense of reality because he saw his family don´t
realize he was gone.
16. • He feels alienated and insignificant
because he spend a long time in the shed
wishing to win the game and when he got
out they´re playing another game without
him because they forgot about him
