Urmi, The Protagonist of The Novella, Pakki Haveli and the Paranormal Attitude of Society
Asian Resonance ( P: ISSN No. 0976-8602 RNI No.UPENG/2012/42622 VOL.-8, ISSUE-2,(Part-1) April 2019 E: ISSN No. 2349-9443 ) Abstract Shweta Maurya Research Scholar, Deptt. of English and Modern European Languages, University of Allahabad, Prayagraj,(UP.), India Children’s minds and brains are designed to be especially open to experience. They are unencumbered by the executive planning, focused attention and prefrontal control that fuels the mad endeavour of adult life, the getting and spending that lays waste our powers. Urmi, the protagonist of the novella, Pakki Haveli, is a small girl who is struggling with the atmosphere of her family. “Pakki Haveli” is known as haunted house in Punjab. The whole atmosphere of family is woven around supernatural elements: ghost that is only created by some strange situations as unusual weeping and laughing imagery, black shade, cutting of some locks of Urmi’s mother in her pregnancy in night and the tall trees of backsid...