character analysis of Hari

Hari:
Hari is a responsible person as he takes up the role of his drunkard father who has no ability to take care of the family. he worries for his sisters as well as the financial difficulties the family is facing. This is evident from this phrase. 'He must have a job if he was to find his sisters a way out of this dark, gloomy house and the illness and drunkenness and hopelessness' (pg 67).

Hari also cares for his family. For his family, he labours hard everyday to earn some money for his family and his sickly mother. For example, he works in the fields everyday, plucks coconut for some money, and even fish by the shores of the sea even though he knew he could not find any fish there. He is also willing to go to bombay, a strange place to him to hopefully find a job there and send money back to his family.

Hari is also a far-sighted boy. He knows that his two younger sisters would have to be married off one day and also knows that his father would not see to it. Therefore, he decides that he would have to earn more money as the grooms would demand all kinds of expensive gifts.

All the examples given above shows that Hari is a boy that cares very much for his family and is very responsible.