The mother burst into tears seeing her child wailing uncontrolably. The child’s mother asked her if she felt thirsty or needed to go to toilet. The narrator suggested that she might have had a nightmare and asked the child if it had a bad dream, but the child did not respond. She blamed the child for wandering out of the house to play in the afternoon and disobeying them when told not to play outside. The grandmother reasoned that the child might be afflicted by evil spirits. Her grandmother applied holy ash on her forehead and sought Lord Muruga’s blessing for the child. The child’s only response was to wail inconsoleably. The narrator, his mother and his wife woke up anxiously and began asking the child what was bothering her. The child woke up in the middle of the night and started howling for some unexplained reason. She had the habit of wetting the bed but didn’t wake up in-spite of being drenched throughly.īut one night the baby girl put them through an unpleasant expe-rience. The narrator begins the story telling the reader that his two year old baby daughter would usually fell asleep around eight in the evening and sleep soundly all through the night. Any loss of such objects will cause them untold, unex-plained and inconsolable agony. It shows that people develop a fascination for even inanimate things which they hold dearly to their hearts. It is written to highlight where man’s happiness lies. The writer wrote the short story based on this incidents to show the subjective value people assign to objects, even the lifeless ones. Finally his mother handed her a small sugar container which she held tightly to her heart and dozed off. His mother gave her medicinal herbs, wife tried to feed her and the writer cajoled her but to no avail. One night Murugan’s baby daughter was howling non-stop. The story is anecdotal, based on a real-life incident in the author’s life. She wants a particular thing but nobody has an idea what is it? ‘Mirror of Innocence’ narrates a story of a child, who starts crying in the middle of the night. The given short story ‘Mirror of Innocence’ is extracted from the author Perumal Murugan’s collection of short stories titled ‘The Goat Thief’. Narrated in a simplistic and captivating style, the story is based on a real-life incident involving his daughter. In this short story, a small suger container becomes the central object of a child’s attention. The present short story ‘Mirror of Innocence’ is an extract from his collection of short stories titled ‘The Goat Thief’. He brings marginal characters to the center and depicts them with a touch of humility and sympathy. Some of his famous novels that have been translated into English are ‘Seasons of the Palm’, ‘Current Show’ and ‘Part Woman’. He has penned six novels, four collections of short stories and four anthologies of poetry. He is both a controversial and a commercially successful writer. He was a Professor of Tamil at Government Arts College in Namakkal. An author, novelist and a scholar, Murugan writes novels in Tamil. Perumal Murugan is one of the prominent writers in Indian Literature. Mirror of Innocence Summary Notes Mirror of Innocence About the Author
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