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Asynchronous Assignment Submitted by Abhiram Lokanathan 2040802 1EMS.

Ruskin Bonds’ short story overhauls the conventional representation of family values. Comment. Ruskin Bond truly overhauls the traditional representation of family values and delves into subjective realms of filial love. It is not an exaggeration to mention that the author has succeeded in his deliberate attempt to portray materialism and lust as a threat to family values. In the story, Mr. William Jones, or Uncle Bill as the narrator calls him, is a true psycho who enjoys seeing death. He derives a sadistic pleasure to see slow deaths as in the case of the butterflies that starve to death in his ember bottles. The very fact that Mr. Jones as a nurse relished nursing the terminally ill cases proves deeper insights into his affliction to slow deaths and sufferings. The case of adultery by Mrs. Browning also crudely depicts another aspect of a non-conventional family. Mr. Browning gets deceived and is poisoned by Mrs. Browning who took advantage of his blind faith in her. She bamboozles her husband to slow death upon Mr. Jones’s instructions and goes to live with him afterward. Mr. Jones on the opposite hand kills his wife to live with Mrs. Browning. But ultimately he is jailed and she suicides. It may be presumably assumed that Mr. Jones has killed Aunt Mabel and Uncle to get hold of their assets in South Africa and had come to Fosterganj to get hold of the narrator’s wealth after killing him. In short, it is seen that the story revolves around a couple of possible shortfalls in any family like blind faith, adultery, lust, and fight for property This narration by Bond is unique as Uncle Bill is killing his circle of relatives to garner wealth. Though such instances are not rare, it requires a different perception to fictionalize them. Thus the conventional representation filial love, care, and affection get overhauled to portray the lust and materialism of relations in this seminal work by Ruskin bond....