The Room On The Roof By Ruskin Bond Summary

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The room on the roof by ruskin bond summary.

Written when the author was seventeen it brilliantly describes the hopes and passions that capture young minds and hearts. The room on the roof is a novel written by ruskin bond. Written by bond as a 17 year old the story of the room on the roof is a semi autobiographical work. The novel revolves around rusty an orphaned seventeen year old anglo indian boy living in dehradun.

The room on the roof bond s first literary venture that won him the famous john llewellyn rhys memorial prize in the year 1957. It is a tale about an anglo indian orphan boy named rusty. The room on the roof. He lives with his guardian mr harrison a missionary and his wife in dehradun.

A moving tale of love and friendship it has endured as bond s most beloved novel. An orphaned anglo indian boy in the dehradun of the 50s rusty yearns to break free from his guardians who want to make a proper englishman out of him. It is in one such picturesque place that rusty the protagonist of ruskin bond s the room on the roof lives. Mr harrison wants him to be groomed with english values and to avoid contact with indian influences.

It was bond s first literary venture. He is very lonely and sad and even though he lives with his guardian mr. Bond wrote the novel when he was seventeen and won the john llewellyn rhys memorial prize in 1957. Ruskin bond short stories summary.