The Guide
The Guide as far as the ironic perspective is concerned achieves the supreme concentration of purpose. No episode is superfluous or understand to the others and all contibute to the singular theme of Raju's spiritual odysse. The sequence of events that encomparses the innocent pleasures of Raju's childhood days, his romantic adventures or misadvent of later year his brilliant showmanship as a saint and his estimate ordead, are set to an ironic rythm of life.
Raju's life is last in a crisis cross of fortunes. He undergoes a process of gradual degradation from an illicit lover to a liar forgiving the document and then to a take swami swindling the entire community. But these process suddenly reversed, by an extra ordinary feat of suffering and sacrifice becomes the true saint redeeming his easier life.
Irony spans the entire life of Raju right from his childhood days to the final moments. As the swami he narrates the story of penance to the villagers, unaware of its ironic turns whereby he will be called upon to perform the penance. It is at the railway track that he learnt his first bad words. His successive rise and fall on fortune are curiously associated with the railways. So also is gattur with his taxi. Gattur's taxi has bears a witness to many romantic moment of Raju Rosie relationship, a relationship which Gattur himself did not approve of.
Hiding marco's book from Rosie and forgiving her signature are pardorable offences on the part of a jealous lover because Raju apprehends that Rosie may get enamoured of her husbands achievemant. The clever lawyer fails to save Raju. The lawyer proves to a hoax who fail to save Raju from imprisonment inspite of his braggadocio brave acts.
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