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    This document summarizes the story "Bholi" by K.A. Abbas. It describes Bholi as a simpleton girl who was neglected by her family and village after suffering a head injury as a baby and smallpox as a toddler. When she starts school, her teacher encourages her and praises her learning, helping Bholi gain confidence in herself. The story highlights societal evils like gender inequality, discrimination based on appearance, and the dowry system in India. It shows how Bholi transforms from a shy, bullied girl to finding her voice and standing up for herself and her family.

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    This document summarizes the story "Bholi" by K.A. Abbas. It describes Bholi as a simpleton girl who was neglected by her family and village after suffering a head injury as a baby and smallpox as a toddler. When she starts school, her teacher encourages her and praises her learning, helping Bholi gain confidence in herself. The story highlights societal evils like gender inequality, discrimination based on appearance, and the dowry system in India. It shows how Bholi transforms from a shy, bullied girl to finding her voice and standing up for herself and her family.

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    This document summarizes the story "Bholi" by K.A. Abbas. It describes Bholi as a simpleton girl who was neglected by her family and village after suffering a head injury as a baby and smallpox as a toddler. When she starts school, her teacher encourages her and praises her learning, helping Bholi gain confidence in herself. The story highlights societal evils like gender inequality, discrimination based on appearance, and the dowry system in India. It shows how Bholi transforms from a shy, bullied girl to finding her voice and standing up for herself and her family.

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    Bholi

    By: K.A Abbas


    BHOLI THE SIMPLETON
    o Sulekha, the fourth daughter of Numberdar
    Ramlal, was known as Bholi.
    o When she was ten months old she had fallen
    off the cot and hit head, perhaps damaging
    some part of it. Due to this she had always
    been a backward child among other children of
    the village, thus aquiring the name ‘Bholi’.
    o At birth she was fair and pretty but when she
    was two years old, she had an attack of small-
    pox, disfiguring her entire body except the eyes.
    o She was neglected by her family and everyone
    in the village through entire childhood.
    THE TEACHER
    o While Bholi was scared on her first day at school, sitting in
    the far corner in her class, looking at the beautiful paintings
    with bright colours, the teacher approached her.
    o The teacher asked Bholi her name. Bholi was struggling but
    the teacher encouraged her and gave her the confidence to
    speak.
    o When the teacher praised her she was more confident and
    happy than before. This was her first time being praised.
    o The teacher gave her a book and told her to read it.
    o The book was full of colourfull pictures of animals.
    o She promised Bholi to give her a bigger book after she
    finished the first one. And then a still bigger one.
    o “In time you will be more learned than anyone else in the
    village. Then no one will ever be able to laugh at you.” She
    said to Bholi.
    THE STORY TAUGHT US…
    o While the story is simple and short, it carries many evil of the society
    and it carries many emotions of the protagonist -Bholi- as well.
    o In this story boys are shown to have privileges over girls. Bholi’s
    three brothers were sent to study in cities while she and her sisters
    were already decided to be married.
    o The story also brings out the way how people are shunned out and
    looked down upon based on their appearance. Just because Bholi
    was ugly and stammered, she was neglected and bullied.
    o Another way the story depicts the evil of the society, dowry. The
    system of dowry has been in India from far back in the past.
    Bishamber Nath refused to marry Bholi, the ugly girl with pok-marks,
    until her father gave him five thousand rupees.
    o Bholi stood up for herself and her family when they were being
    insulted infront of so many people. She finally spoke up for herself
    and all the people there were shocked.
    o She had gained confidence. She was not the dumb cow anymore.
    o This taught us the evils as well as the will to be able to fight that evil.
    THANK
    YOU

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