Important Elements of Taare Zameen Par

Important Elements of a Short Story

1. Title     : Taare Zameen Par

2. Character and characteristic

No	Character	Characteristic
1	Ishaan Awasthi	Never give up, hard to learn, and love his family.	Protagonist
2	Yohaan Awasthi (Dada)	Care, smart, sporty, and diligent	Protagonist
3	Nandkishore Awasthi(Papa)	Egoist, grumpy, stubborn, and shy but actually he cared about his family	Antagonist
4	Maya Awasthi (Mama)	Care, Kind, discipline,and care about her family	Protagonist
5	Ram Shankar Nikumbh(Teacher)	Care, kind, strong, smart, diligent and love his student	Protagonist
6	Rajan Damodran (Ishaan’s Friend)	Diligent, kind, smart, and never give up	Protagonist

3. Setting

a. Place  :   

field, home, school, boarding school,headmaster’s room, teacher’s room, bedroom, classroom, tulip school, road

b. Time   :   

morning, afternoon,and evening

c. Weather conditions    :   

sunny and rainy

d. Social conditions          :   

Ihsaan always bullied by the people around him, educated and there are also bridle condition.

e. Mood or atmosphere    :

pathetic,frightening,tighten,sad,but in the end happy.

4. Plot

è Introduction

Ishaan Awasthi, lives with his family. He is an eight-years-old boy who dislikes school and fails every test or exam. His mother, housewife Maya Awasthi frustrated by her inability to educate her son. Ishaan’s father, Nandikishore Awasthi is a successful executive who expects his children to excel.Ishaan’s brother, Yohaan Awasthi is an exemplary scholar and athlete, which Ishaan is frequently reminded of.

è Rising Action

Ishaan child labeled as lazy, mischievous, and an idiot. He excwls in art and poor on academic.

He has a lovely family but his father is hard to accept him.Ishaan also bullied by people around him. He is hard to learn. Ishaan always gets bad score, so his school decide to drop him out. After receiving a particulary poor academic report, Ishaan’s parents send him to a boarding school.

è Climax

Ihsan always bullied by his teachers and his friends in the boarding school.It make him so depressed.There, he sinks into a state of fear and depression, despite being befriended by Rajan who has physically disabled and one of the top students in his class. Ishaan gets worse in the boarding school.He want get his family back.

è Falling action

Ram Shankar Nikumbh, Ishaan’s new art teacher suspects that his dyslexic and helps him to overcome his disability. Nikumbh treat Ishaan practicing reading, After that,Ishaan gets better.he can read and write well.

è Denoument

With his imagination, Ihsaan join paint competition who held by Nikumbh. And the result,Ihsaan is the winner and get award. Ihsaan  become a normal person like the other.His family and  His techer also proud of him. And Ihsaan become a smart child.

5. Conflict 

a. External    : Ishaan vs circumstances

b. Internal    : Ishaan vs himself

6. Theme          : All the kids are special and wonderful. They are like stars on earth; Never give up

7. Point of view :

Omniscient Objective

 

-Nindya Tresna Wiwitan-

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