The Child is a short story written by famous Indian writer, Premchand. The central theme of story is Love, sympathy and social awareness.
THE CHILD BY PREMCHAND
Summary of The Child By Premchand
Premchand’s “The Child” is a short story which is based on symbol of love. The story of novel revolve around main character, Gangu, a Brahmin boy. The story begins with narrator who is an employer of Gangu. Gangu work as a servant at Narrator’s home.
The narrator is calm person in whose house several servants work. He does his small works by himself without any servants help. Although, Narrator has many servants at his home but Gangu is different from all of them. Gangu is lazy and careless person. He call himself Brahmin but in reality he doesn’t follow Brahmin culture.
One day, Gangu goes at Narrator’s room to talk with him but he was hesitating while talking to him. When Narrator saw Gangu hesitating, he thought that he came to ask for money from him. Or maybe he came to complaint some other servant. But he came to tell something else to narrator. He tells Narrator that he won’t work at his house anymore and will leave his house forever.
Gangu is leaving Narrator’s home because he is going to marry a girl named Gomti Devi. As Narrator heard Gomti name, he ask Gangu, is she the same girl who has married three times ? Gangu replies yes, she is the same girl who has been married three times.
Gomti Devi was married three times, she left her three husbands and run away. And now she is came back to live in her village. But Gomti’s neighbour doens’t respect her, they consider her low character lady but Gangu does not care about these things.
Gangu always had respect in his heart for Gomti. The narrator ask Gangu to stay away from Gomti, he explained a lot to Gangu that he should not marry Gomti. Gangu does not listen to narrator, he left his servant job and ends up marrying Gomti. The narrator believe Gangu and Gomti will separate soon.
But Gangu and Gomti lives happily after their marriage. After leaving servant job, Gangu opened a shop in market and everything was going good. One day, Gomti left Gangu and run away, and same day narrator meets Gangu in market. Gangu tells him news that Gomti run away from him.
Gangu is very sad about it but still he has full faith on her. Thereafter, Narrator went to Nainital for his work and came back after one month. When narrator came back after one month, Gangu goes to his home to meet him.
When Gangu goes to Narrator’s home to meet him, he had a small baby on his hands. He tells narrator that he got his wife back. Gangu tells him reason, why Gomti ran away. Gangu tells narrator that Gomti run away the home because she was pregnant and I’m not the father of her child. The baby which Gomiti gave birth to is belong to her ex husband. The narrator tells Gangu, how can you believe her ? How you accepted her with baby ?
Gangu tells narrator that this baby is a gift for him from God and I have accepted them because of this. And I have faith on Gomti from the beginning. The narrator gets very happy after listening to Gangu and starts praising him. He gave blessing to the baby.