Justified and Ancient by Simon Lewis

Is he on a vacation backpacking across the earth spending his rich fathers money or is the only reason for his tourism the drug look at? Is he going back to Delhi or either(a) the way back to England? Since he has both a girlfriend with authorisation wife-status and a child to take care of at home my cipher is the last possibility he is simply a rug principal buying incredibly low-prized hind endnabis in India for re-selling in his home country. His argument at p. 2 1. 70 is obviously pointing in that direction My trick? Re, I dont re completelyy clear one as such. Ironic eachy enough, leeward is filled with self-congratulation as he leaves the village.Overwhelmed with compassion he has given the children the adhesive biscuits he himself depict as revolting and unpalatable. Maybe he does non consider the fact that he refuses to give the children something that would actually help them rupees. Money, he earlier referred to as Joke money. Instead he uncompromisingly sea t he child away with a No Dont agree me, you shouldnt touch lee side faces to be an egoistic, ignorant and unpleasant figure from what we are described and is possibly supposed to symbolize the typical horse opera tourist.Though we are non given a lot of information about(predicate) the village people, they reckon shy and reserved. lee(prenominal) makes no two- way communication with any former(a) than the death chair and one of the kids for a brief moment. It might be that Lee considers the village people naive and ignorant, but as the story surprisingly twists in the end, all is turned upside down, and it is obvious that Lee has underestimated the prexy. He has not fooled the president it is he himself who have been deceived. An old-fashioned, proud chieftain is not the obvious one to suspect for depraved actions.As he may seem proud and honorable on the outside, the president is the exact opposite on the inside. At the end of the story we are suddenly having anothe r get wind that of the woman leading her donkey to the village. She entrusts us with the presidents secret Sometimes the president and his slimy friend Punned got drunk and talked much than they should in the presence of the women. The president was a shrewd man, and under him the village ad prospered, but he was a man without honor. (p. 4-5 1. 158-163) The president has actually prostituted himself and given up all his pride and honor for money.The president cooperates with break up, the legal philosophy commissioner, who gives him money in drop for information about tourists like Lee. In this way the president can profit from his unfortunate customers buying cannabis and receive money from the police at the same time and he does not at all seem to care about the people he may wound in the progress. Suddenly the gesture of trust on page 4 1. 123 seems more as a scorn tan anything else. Lee Is goose egg more out a Oarlock In ten pralines game, Ana It speedily travels unc ertain who to sympathize with.At first it was the president The proud chieftain of an quaint village thinking he made a good deal with another tourist, but at last it is the poor Lee that is the victim And he will suffer his deeds. She knew that Ram and the bullies he used as deputies would be getting drunk now, and when the foreigner came down they would greet him, smiling, and Ram would laugh taping his tick wooden cane against his leg (p. 5 1. 165) It is here that the title becomes paradoxical. Lee may have been greedy and insulting but does he deserve to get beat up?Lee is a man with a girlfriend and, to a certain extinct, a child at home both depending on his financial succeeder is it a reassert laugh that bursts from the presidents mouth and follows Lee down to the stand of the mountain? I do not think it is. The chieftain has become Just as grasping and greedy as any western president. And from where has those influences emerged? The boy with the Walkway bobbing his he ad up and down (in what seems as a prayer but very remarkably is not) karaokes the phrase We are confirm and ancient.And we drive an ice cream VA-an from Kills single confirm and ancient. This is a very good clue for interpreting the title. Given that the phrase Justified and ancient does not only refer to the president but to all of the people living in the village, a more general view is set on the story. The village may be Justified collectible to the western influences that have had negative influence on their society and their culture. To approve the word Justified with the more concrete word ancient does not normally seem irrational.After reading this short story it does though because the ancient village with the old president represents something honorable, sacred and proud Values that have been destroyed by western society it is now all about materialism and money. The president does seem proud to have flourished the old culture, hold up the civilization below them f rom the mountain summit but he wants more than Just doctor visits and he has broken the traditional way of behaving in the village. Whether or not the village people are (the president is) Justified or not is a discussable topic a topic that provokes us to think the term Justification over.