class 8 English Father's Help R.K Narayan Summary

Father’s Help by R.K Narayan: Brief Analysis

In this story we meet Swami who is the protagonist in Swami and Friends. Swami like any other kid does not like school and wishes that the school is reduced to  dust by an earthquake. It’s Monday morning and Swami lies to his mother to get a day off, luckily he gets it. Trouble brews when his stubborn father is hell-bent on sending him off to school even when Swami says he has a headache. From then on we see the active imagination of a boy who conjures stories after stories against his teacher Samuel, the  atrocities on students so that he is not send to school. But all of it  goes against him and now he is on his way to Albert Mission School with a letter from his father which he has to deliver to his headmaster and get an acknowledgment from him. Read the story to find out the hilarious adventures of Swami.“It was Monday Morning. Swami was reluctant to open his eyes. After the delicious freedom of Saturday and Sunday, it was difficult to get in thee Monday mood of order and discipline.”


How true! These were the lines that made me feel that this book is made for me. I feel the same too. These lines made me get this book.