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What are Jagan’s motivations? What do you think he wants from life?
In this section, Jagan's motives appear as complex, and in some ways contradictory. He is inclined simultaneously towards spiritualism and towards material gain. The conflict between these different motives is embodied by his choice of reading while at the shop with his cousin: a copy of the Bhagavad Gita is always nearby Jagan, just as his cash register is.
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What are Mali’s motivations? What do you think he wants from life?
In this section, Mali's desires are only just beginning to be fully articulated vis–à-vis his father. However, they still remain vague (in part because the narrator...
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