182 rionours Hand Book (Partition Literature//DSE_AS/CLV6Ch Semener philosopher and guide who was almost his alter ego and whom he hag Biv, the status of a demi-god had left him in the middle so ineptly. Tridiy shaping influence on narrator and he had unconsciously followed him after his death. At personal level it was a big blow to him. uuma even 17 years after his death ang And any casual remark even about the Roby could not get over this tra ike a leaf. It was the case with May arn continued to haunt him everywhere. 4 sets him shaking li session that she was his murderer, sp, fter twisting the nature of his death +, place where he died as well who could not get over the 0 does not find solace anywhere except a give the name of a mysterious sacrifice. The death of Dan in war-torn London is also pathetic. He was standing right beside the window when the ariel bombing blast shattered the pane ints thin, sharp splinters and blew them into the room like the curtain of needles When the men from the Heavy Rescue Service carried his body out, every last inch of it was tattooed with the fine, clean perforations of the sharp slivers of glass that had been thrown through him by the blast. Tresawsen had time to push Mike clear off the crumbling stairs and threw his body over Francesca’s. Then a beam fell upon him killing him instantly, breaking his spine. As for Mike, he survived but later his name was there in the casualty list in The Times. He had died as his ship had been torpedoed by a German U-boat. The novel has its elements of pathos as well when it makes an oblique reference to the traumatic partition of India in which thousands of men, wome and children died a cruel death. Most of them were innocent rustics stayin; Punjab and Eastern Calcutta who had nothing to do with either of the tw< dominions. The partition of India is chronicled in history as a big, bloody an unfortunate divorce. Along with it the violence that is concomitant wher borders are futilely drawn, is also affirmed.