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      • The story concludes with Phatik's mother by his side, highlighting the themes of family, belonging, and the innocence of childhood. Through his journey, Phatik experiences the harsh realities of growing up, ultimately yearning for the comfort and safety of home.
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  2. The story ends there, leaving readers to decide whether they are satisfied with the resolution. Phatik seems to have found satisfaction in his mother’s arrival, but no one knows if he lives...

  3. Jul 21, 2024 · Phatiks fate is the end of his life where he finally meets his mother for the last time, but it doesn’t save his life. He abodes his soul to the final homecoming, which is death. Phatik goes through a tragic end.

    • Introduction
    • About The Author
    • Theme
    • The Brothers
    • Calcutta
    • The School
    • The Fever
    • Conclusion

    ‘The Home Coming’ is a story written by Rabindranath Tagore. Narrated in third person point of view, it talks about the story of a fourteen-year-old adolescent boy, the struggles he has to go through.

    Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a prominent poet who wrote both in English and Bengali. In 1913, he was a awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his work ‘Gitanjali’. After being knighted in 1951, he renounced it in 1991 after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. Famous works of his include Gitanjali, Ghare-Baire and India’s national anthem ‘Jana...

    This story revolves around the themes of conflict and love in Phatik’s life. Minor themes also include responsibility and isolation as felt by an adolescent boy.

    Phatik is a fourteen-year-old fun loving, mischievous boy and has earned a reputation for it. When he was with other boys of the village, his younger brother Makhan, in an attempt to rile him up, sits on the log in front of him. Phatik threatens that he would push him down if he down if he doesn’t go away. But this threat falls on deaf ears. Swallo...

    His uncle, Bishmaber, gets permission from his mother to take Phatik along with him to Calcutta to educate him. His mother was all too ready to agree. His mother was distressed by his presence as she was under constant fear that he would prove to be a threat to Makhan. However, she gets distressed over Phatik being equally enthusiastic to leave. Ho...

    Schooling was also a miserable experience for Phatik. He could neither blend in nor impress the teachers. Desperate, he finally musters enough courage to ask his uncle when he could go home. His Uncle’s only reply was that he could return during the holidays. One day, he loses his book for which he is both insulted and reprimanded by his fellow sch...

    Upon returning home that day, Phatik tries to escape back home. However, he gets caught in a torrent of rain, he catches a severe malarial cold. His uncle, unable to find him, lodged a complaint with the police. When the police find him and bring him back, he is further criticised. Unable to bear it any longer, he cries that he wants to return home...

    In his fever induced hallucination, Phatik begs his mother to not beat him, even as he wishes to return home. Society’s attitude towards adolescents is highly criticized by Tagore when he points out how not even one person tries to understand what he was going through, the emotional suffering he had to endure. Even though his mother seems to regret...

  4. Nov 23, 2018 · What happened at the end of Homecoming? WARNING: This article contains major spoilers for all of Homecoming. Homecoming follows Heidi Bergman (played by Julia Roberts), a caseworker aa facility...

  5. Finally, at the end of the story, Bishambers point of view takes over as he realizes what, or rather whom, his nephew really wants and as he watches the reunion of mother and son.

  6. Nov 5, 2018 · The final pre-credits sequence of Amazon’s Homecoming involves Heidi finally encountering Walter in a sleepy diner in a sleepy town, where he has settled in and made a nice, quiet life for...

  7. May 22, 2020 · The end of the show saw the Geist Group fall victim to a mass poisoning at a corporate event that will leave everyone who was drinking the free wine without their memories.

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