Question

Referring closely to the short story B. Wordsworth:

Describe the interaction between B. Wordsworth and the young narrator.

Answer 1

Naipaul’s B. Wordsworth is a story that deals with the friendship between. a little boy from ordinary circumstances and an educated man with a poetic mind and sensibilities.

A young child who lives with his mother is knocked on the door by a well-groomed man. The man asks whether the bees in their compound are visible. Reluctantly, his mother lets him use the yard. Together, the guy and the youngster observe the bees. The guy asks the boy if he enjoys watching the bees as much as he does. I never have the time to, he responds. The man gives a headshake. The child asks many questions because he is fascinated by the stranger.

Black Wordsworth is the man’s name. Then he claims that he can cry while seeing a flower “Ver like a morning glory.” B. Wordsworth responds, “When you’re a poet you can cry for everything,” to the child’s question about what he wept for. Following this. Wordsworth takes a piece of printed paper out of his pocket. That’s what he tells the child. He wrote the best poetry about mothers on that paper, which he would sell to him for four cents if he so desired. When the child approaches his mother to ask if she would buy it, she says no. The child returns to the man and informs him that his mother doesn’t have four cents. According to Wordsworth, he anticipates meeting new poets in this manner. However, up to that point, not a single copy had been sold. Unbeknownst to the narrator’s mother, the young narrator B. Wordsworth later became friends. At the event, the youngster encounters B. Wordsworth. Miguel Street, as he was returning from school one day. B. Wordsworth stated that he had been anticipating this little companion for aLong time. He asked the small youngster to come eat mangoes in his yard.

The boy saw that the mango, coconut, and plum trees made the yard look completely green. The area appeared untamed, as if it were completely outside of the city. The large concrete homes in the street were hidden from view. The boy relished the juicy, delicious mangoes. Naturally, his mother was furious with him for his mishap and severely beat him. The boy visits B. Wordsworth’s home out of rage. Rather than discussing what had transpired, B. Wordsworth took him for a stroll to the racetrack. They were lying on the grass there, staring up at the sky. B. Wordsworth also hinted to the little child about a romance between a boy poet and a girl poet who passed away carrying a young poet within her. They took hikes in the Rock Gardens and the Botanical Garden. In the late afternoon, they ascended Chancellor Hill and observed the lights on in the city and on the ships in the harbor as darkness descended upon the Port of Spain. B. Wordsworth approached every task as if it were his first. He enjoyed it as if he were performing a church rite.