Deception In Like The Sun

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Narayan and Saki ,both used similar and different concepts of truth and deception in the stories. There was more differences though between the two than similarities. Narayan’s story “Like the Sun” focused on truth throughout the story and had a lot of examples of irony. While in Saki’s story, the author had the plot revolve around one ironic occurrence.

Narayan had his main character speak only the truth throughout his interesting day. Whether it was telling his wife that he was “unable to swallow” her food that he found quite disgusting, discussing with another colleague that he was not affected and did not mourn the loss of “so-and-so” death, or telling his boss that he was a terrible musician and “should stop trying”. In all of those

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