Of Marriageable Age

A detailed Summary of Of Marriageable Age

Main characters: - Savitri: the most charismatic character; she is very intelligent and has the ability to heal with her hands.

- David: he is a doctor and loves Savitri as she also loves him; he would do anything for her.

- Sarojini: she is called Saroj and she is Savitris adopted daughter; she, too, is very intelligent and stubborn.

- Nataraj: He is David's and Savitri's son and has his mother's supernatural ability to heal.

This is a love story but not an ordinary one since it describes the lives of four people who are ralated to one another. The plot describes four lives in two decades but these are built up chronologically. The action is quite complex since the reader does not know how the different characters are related to one another. This turns out step by step and only in the ending one can understand the whole relationship of the characters, which are very well drawn. However Savitri's perspective is presented most strongly, because she is maybe the most charismatic charakter and although she dies, she is still important for the further happenings in the story.

begins in pre-war India, which is still an English colony at that time, where David and Savitri are born. David as the son of a rich English family and Savitri as the daughter of their cook. However the children grow up together because David's mother is for some reason not able to breastfeed the baby, so she calls Savitri's mother with her baby to live with her and David. David and Savitri become the best friends, but Savitris brother, Mani, begins to think that it was just Savitri's fault that his mother had to leave him because of these English people. But he does not let them know how he is feeling yet. Problems turn up, when Savitri and David grow older, because their parents consider that it is not appropriate anymore that they are together all the time because of their different gender. So David is sent to England for school and Savitri gets engaged although she is still too young to marry. They promise each other that they will keep writing letters and David gives a golden cross on a necklace to Savitri. They also give each other the promise to marry once. Then he is sent away and Savitri suffers a lot. And although she keeps writing letters to him, she never receives an answer. What neither of them knows: Parts of their families don't want them to receive each other's letters. So David seems to forget and Savitri, too, although she somehow knows, that there is something between them, begins to believe that he doesn't want to keep his promise. So the years pass by but one day David comes back home. He has nearly forgot about Savitri and all he still remembers is a young girl. But then they meet and David falls in love, seeing a woman, known as Savitri in front of him. However Savitri is engaged and her parents as well as David's won't let them marry. So they decide to run away, but their attempt to flee fails, becau

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Approximate Word count = 1237
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English