Anne+and+Chid

**Relationship Between Anne and Chid** __**Initial Meeting: 28 February** __ **Setting:** > Chid was introduced into the novel as another English youth outside of the traveller's bungalow while she was visiting one of the places from Olivia's letters. At their first meeting, he is introduced as looking for a place to stay and struggling to find cheap shelter even though his guru instructed him to live under trees. The interior of the travelers' rest-house is musky, in decay, and houses a dead squirrel. The setting represents a place that is unattended to and uncared for, which also parallels to Chid himself and his next meeting with Anne. **Reactions:** >
 * //"It was musty and dark inside the bungalow; the place smelled dead. In fact, we did find a dead squirrel on the floor" (21)//
 * //"another youth who was also English - he spoke in a flat Midlands accent - but wouldn't admit to it" (18)//
 * //"dressed in nothing but an orange robe like an Indian ascetic; he had shaved his head completely, leaving only the Hindu tuft on top"// (18)
 * Chid was introduced into the novel as another English youth outside of the traveller's bungalow while she was visiting one of the places from Olivia's letters. Anne's initial reaction to Child was very casual. She did not take much interest in him besides acknowledging his choice in wardrobe, which she eventually learned was because of his choice to become a sadhu. After being informed of Chid's initiation and journey as a pilgrim, she already can sense that he seems to be quite hypocritical in his practices to live independent of possessions and shelter.
 * Chid is the second westerner that Anne meets who brings about a religious representation. While compared to the British men from 1923 who are keen in imposing their own religious and cultural regulations, Child has personally attracted to India to learn about it's scripture and religion (although his attempts at purifying him self are lacking).

__**Second Meeting: 30 March** __ **Setting:** **Reactions:**
 * **Anne finds Child inside one of the royal tombs near the lake, close to Maji's hut. Her curiosity leads her to discover Child,huddled in the corner of one of te dark, seculed tombs. Child is described to be encircled by his few scattered possesions surviving in extremely poor conditions. The interior lacked circulation, Child appears to be trapped in side ill, and exisiting in rotting and sour smells. To further emphasis his rundoon environment, similar to their initial meeting, an animal is introduced. Child was visted by a pariah dog, and is portrayed in parallel to the street creator in terms of him being one of them or as a human living in animal conditions.**

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